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Watched on Thursday June 5, 2025.

Watched on Thursday June 5, 2025.

Watched on Tuesday June 3, 2025.

Watched on Sunday June 1, 2025.

Watched on Sunday June 1, 2025.

another banger from Anthony 'Tony' Scott. in awe of how effortlessly he composes his images

all you need in this business is a sense of the cosmos

Watched on Saturday May 31, 2025.

Watched on Thursday May 29, 2025.

Watched on Tuesday May 27, 2025.

Watched on Monday May 26, 2025.

Watched on Monday May 26, 2025.

This review may contain spoilers.

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pom is still a perfect beautiful assassin-mercenary-tin soldier-mime, theyve gotta let her out of mcu jail or im gonna kill someone

Watched on Sunday May 25, 2025.

Watched on Sunday May 25, 2025.

Watched on Sunday May 25, 2025.

see now why would i care about the fictional propagandising of THREADS (1984) when i can just look at the actual reality of hiroshima/nagasaki and the marshall islands

Watched on Friday May 23, 2025.

perhaps one of the few instances where such blunt propagandising is not only permissable but possibly even beneficial. shame itll never happen tho

Watched on Tuesday May 20, 2025.

Watched on Monday May 19, 2025.

Watched on Monday May 19, 2025.

Watched on Monday May 19, 2025.

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Watched on Monday May 19, 2025.

genuinely what the fuck were they thinking

Watched on Monday May 19, 2025.

Watched on Sunday May 18, 2025.

two stars for jenna ortega and jenna ortega ONLY

Watched on Saturday May 17, 2025.

Watched on Saturday May 17, 2025.

Watched on Friday May 16, 2025.

Watched on Thursday May 15, 2025.

Watched on Thursday May 15, 2025.

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Watched on Tuesday May 13, 2025.

Watched on Monday May 12, 2025.

Watched on Monday May 12, 2025.

actually kinda crazy

Watched on Sunday May 11, 2025.

was good up until the last episode or so where they had to bring in all the cia guys crying over the 'fall' of saigon, like you got what you wanted, what the fuck are you complaining about. still good tho

Watched on Sunday May 11, 2025.

Watched on Saturday May 10, 2025.

Watched on Friday May 9, 2025.

an interesting theme of the proximity of life and death, of the anxiety of not knowing whether thisll be the last time you see someone, ocassionally recurs, putting one in mind of the idea of a better film, a fictional Romance that isn't limited by the scope of repeated documentary footage and mired by god-awful colorization. a shame, really

RIP Hegel, you wouldve loved biopics

• Joan of Arc
• Joan the Woman
• Battleship Potemkin
• October (Ten Days that Shook the World)
• Napoleon
• The ion of Joan of Arc
• All Quiet on the Western Front
• Abraham Lincoln
• Cleopatra
• Joan of Arc

...plus 74 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

tbw: opus; one of them days; the bride!; ash; companion; johanne sacrebleu; east of wall; ballerina; avatar: fire and ash; bunnylovr; the legend of ochi; muse; together; the next storm; harvest; friendship; the baltimorons; fucktoys; nirvana the band the show the movie; holland; idiotka; nouvelle vague; the phoenician scheme; eleanor the great; urchin; the chronology of water; alpha; die, my love; eddington; a simple accident; blue moon; the mastermind; the history of sound; highest 2 lowest; sound of falling; the secret agent; my father's shadow; the mysterious gaze of the flamingo; pillion; left-handed girl; girl on edge; put your soul on your hand and walk; resurrection; dangerous animals;

1. Turning Point: The Vietnam War
2. Sinners
3. Mickey 17
4. Warfare
5. Death of a Unicorn
6. Hurry Up Tomorrow
7. Havoc
8. Britain and the Blitz
9. Surviving Black Hawk Down
10. The Electric State

• Take Care of My Cat
• Blood on Wolf Mountain
• The Drumlin
• The Wild Goose Lake
• Streetwise
• Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon
• Naked Acts
• West Indies
• The Time That Remains
• To Sleep with Anger

...plus 46 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Yi Yi
• The Halt
• Blade Runner
• Apocalypse Now
• Japanese Girls at the Harbor

  1:04:11

• Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance

  11:30; 28:06

• Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart to Hades

  46:56

• A Brighter Summer Day
• Double Suicide
• Shoplifters

...plus 65 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

not the best but my faves from each year ive been alive
[t winners, runners up and honourable mentions in the notes]

1. Scary Movie

   in the mood for love; yi yi; american psycho; JSA; platform

2. Spirited Away

   fellowship of the ring; y tu mama también; hedwig and the angry inch; mulholland drive

3. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

   hero; minority report

4. Lost in Translation

   return of the king; school of rock; kill bill; memories of murder

5. Cutie Honey

   howl's moving castle; the incredibles; prisoner of azkaban; the motorcycle diaries; mysterious skin; white chicks

6. Linda Linda Linda

   corpse bride; batman begins

7. Paprika

   a scanner darkly; pan's labyrinth; the departed; tekkonkinkreet; still life

8. I'm Not There

   death proof; no country for old men; smiley face; persepolis; there will be blood

9. The Dark Knight

   kaiba; ponyo; tropic thunder

10. Enter the Void

    redline; banyuki; fantastic mr fox; coraline; inglourious basterds

...plus 15 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

formerly an aster vs eggers pointless bullshit ranking

1. Moonlight
2. The Zone of Interest
3. Aftersun
4. I Saw the TV Glow
5. The Iron Claw
6. Uncut Gems
7. Everything Everywhere All at Once
8. The Lighthouse
9. Midsommar
10. Hereditary

...plus 24 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

WAR NOW, WAR TOMORROW, WAR FOREVER

1. Full Metal Jacket
2. Apocalypse Now
3. The Battle of Algiers
4. Grave of the Fireflies
5. Come and See
6. Da 5 Bloods
7. The Thin Red Line
8. All Quiet on the Western Front
9. 1917
10. Warfare

...plus 9 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

my darlings

• Night and Fog
• For All Mankind
• Tantura
• Russia 1985-1999: TraumaZone
• Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat
• Hitler and the Nazis: Evil on Trial
• Yintah
• Kanehsatake, 270 Years of Resistance
• Jenin, Jenin
• Concerning Violence

...plus 284 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

lord forgive me i gotta go back to tha old me | tbw: stress positions; kneecap; the first omen; problemista; sing sing; wildcat; sugarcane; drive away dolls; in our day; bleeding love; the kitchen; io capitano; exhuma; in the summers; sujo; my old ass; ghostlight; presence; malu; sasquatch sunset; good one; daughters; in the summers; union; dìdi; seeking mavis beacon; the seed of the sacred fig; all we imagine as light; the shrouds; universal language; black dog; on becoming a guinea fowl; flow; the balconettes; bird; grand tour; oh, canada; the damned; ren faire; spermworld; lee; twilight of the warriors: walled in; the sympathiser; a different man; bird; rez ball; we live in time; the apprentice; look back; im still there; a traveller's needs; the room next door; the killer; meanwhile on earth; ghost cat anzu; never look away; how to make millions before grandma dies; the visitor; mostly sunny; god save texas; parthenope; viet and nam; nickel boys; the colours within; holy cow; grand theft hamlet; la cocina; from ground zero; castration movie anthology i. traps; desert of namibia; misericordia; souleymane's story; rumours; the life of chuck; one to one: john & yoko; blue sun palace; a fidai film; baby assassins: nice days; it's not me; the code; motel destino; electra; vulcanizadora; sister midnight; article 20; us and the night;

1. Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat
2. Yintah
3. Hitler and the Nazis: Evil on Trial
4. No Other Land
5. Dahomey
6. Black Box Diaries
7. Turning Point: The Bomb and the Cold War
8. Memoir of a Snail
9. Nosferatu
10. Challengers

...plus 37 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Scavengers Reign
2. Kokomo City
3. The Stroll
4. Eldorado: Everything the Nazis Hate
5. The Shamima Begum Story
6. T Blockers
7. The Zone of Interest
8. Oppenheimer
9. Killers of the Flower Moon
10. The Iron Claw

...plus 175 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

for my memory, if nothing else | tbw: the menu; werewolf by night; saint omer; return to seoul; kimi; armageddon time; women talking; novelist's film; the inspection; weird: the al yankovic story; girl from the other side; dont worry darling; holy spider; the elderly; falcon lake; monica; you wont be alone; of an age; emily; bruiser; broker; one fine morning; garden of remembrance; first slam dunk; lonely castle in the mirror; sanctuary; medusa deluxe; the unknown country; dry ground burning; stonewalling; war pony; before now & then (nana); piaffe; both sides of the blade; stars at noon; muru (the raid); lakota nation vs the united states; padre pio; the fallen bridge; all that breathes; snipers;

1. All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
2. Fragments of Paradise
3. Russia 1985-1999: TraumaZone
4. Tantura
5. Geographies of Solitude
6. Starfuckers
7. Beirut Dreams in Color
8. The Water Murmurs
9. Riotsville, USA
10. Enys Men

...plus 59 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

cinema's year of rest and relaxation

• Once Upon a Time in Iraq
• Last and First Men
• Soul
• Da 5 Bloods
• The Metamorphosis of Birds
• Wolfwalkers
• Nomadland
• Tenet
• Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
• Possessor

...plus 45 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Moonlight Whispers

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• Linda Linda Linda

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• He's a Woman, She's a Man

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• Horrors of Malformed Men

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• Blind Beast

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• Donna Haraway: Story Telling for Earthly Survival

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• Steamboat Willie

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• Heaven Is Still Far Away

  archive.org/details/heaven-is-still-far-away-2016

• Les Boys

  archive.org/details/les-boys-1969

• T.V. Transvestite

  www.youtube.com/watch?v=PD3mLQkm624

...plus 5 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

what even came out this year

1. Can't Get You Out of My Head
2. The Last Forest
3. Rebel Dykes
4. All the Crows in the World
5. Inu-Oh
6. After Blue (Dirty Paradise)
7. Mad God
8. Drive My Car
9. The Card Counter
10. We're All Going to the World's Fair

...plus 66 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• The Iron Claw
• Killers of the Flower Moon
• Sinners

from best to worst

• Princess Mononoke
• Embrace of the Serpent
• The Last Forest
• Yintah
• Kanehsatake, 270 Years of Resistance
• Concerning Violence
• Jenin, Jenin
• Tantura
• Birds of age
• Killers of the Flower Moon

...plus 13 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

best films with a specific place in the title

• Tantura
• Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple
• Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island
• Tokyo Story
• Buddha Mountain
• t Security Area
• Hiroshima Mon Amour
• Monterey Pop
• Mulholland Drive
• The Wolf of Wall Street

...plus 6 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

to challenge the idea that aliens are (inherently) malevolent. to uproot our understanding of nature as something to be indiscriminately slaughtered. to uproot anthropocentrism, to realise aliens already exist all around us as even we are to each other.

• Arrival
• Annihilation
• Close Encounters of the Third Kind
• Fantastic Planet
• Avatar
• E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
• Teens in the Universe
• Mickey 17

• Surname Viêt Given Name Nam
• Kim Vân Kiều
• Tierra del fuego
• Antonio das Mortes
• The Tango of the Widower and Its Distorting Mirror
• Chinese In Paris
• The Cremator
• Eros + Massacre
• Center Stage
• Martin Margiela: In His Own Words

...plus 90 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

55. Camp taste is, above all, a mode of enjoyment, of appreciation—not judgement. Camp is generous. It wants to enjoy. It only seems like malice, cynicism. (Or, if it is cynicism, it's not a ruthless but a sweet cynicism.) Camp taste doesnt propose that it is in bad taste to be serious; it doesnt sneer at someone who succeeds in being seriously dramatic. What it does is to find the success in certain ionate failures. — Susan Sontag, Notes on Camp

• The Rocky Horror Picture Show
• Terror, Sisters!
• The Demons of Dorothy
• Rainbow
• The Age of Innocence
• The Shiver of the Vampires
• Scary Movie
• The People's Joker
• Tropic Thunder
• The Slumber Party Massacre

...plus 37 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. The Straight Story

   t best normal (normal)

2. Wild at Heart

   best normal (normal)

3. Blue Velvet

   best normal (weird)

4. Lost Highway

   best weird (weird)

5. Eraserhead

   best weird (normal)

6. Mulholland Drive

   runnerup normal (weird)

7. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me

   best psychotic episode

8. Dune

   runnerup weird (normal)

9. The Elephant Man

   runnerup normal (normal)

to push the limits of what can be done

• The Boy and the Heron
• The Color of Pomegranates
• Eraserhead
• Paprika
• Mind Game
• Akira
• El Topo
• The Holy Mountain
• Strike
• Man with a Movie Camera

...plus 3 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

for the bad bitches only

• The Shiver of the Vampires
• The Rape of the Vampire
• Suspiria
• Nosferatu
• Dracula
• Frankenstein
• Bram Stoker's Dracula
• The Haunting
• Kiss of the Damned
• Candyman

...plus 14 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

as i discovered them

• Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese
• I'm Not There
• Dont Look Back
• No Direction Home: Bob Dylan
• A Complete Unknown

• Standing Above the Clouds
• The Entire History of the Louisiana Purchase
• Oedipus Rex
• Medea
• Tarry-Dan Tarry-Dan Scarey Old Spooky Man
• Tsuburo no Gara
• The Testament of Caleb Meeke
• Satan's Rhapsody
• The White Reindeer
• Through the Looking Glass

...plus 89 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

dude just loves vampires and booba

1. The Shiver of the Vampires
2. Requiem for a Vampire
3. The Rape of the Vampire
4. Dracula's Fiancée
5. The Living Dead Girl
6. Lips of Blood
7. The Night of the Hunted
8. The Grapes of Death

in chronological order. honourable mentions: october (ten days that shook the world) (1927); macbeth (1947); thelma and louise (1991); sexy beast (2000); dune: part two (2024); red rocket (2021); the substance (2024); the french dispatch (2021); in the land of the head hunters (1914); the general (1926); t security area (2000); mononoke: the movie (2024); cleopatra (1963); mulholland drive (2001); black orpheus (1959); horror express (1972); the zone of interest (2023); we're all going to the world's fair (2021); starfuckers (2022); masque of the red death (1964); slow west (2015); lost highway (1997); river (2023); the bikeriders (2023); the emperor jones (1933); the silent enemy (1930); go west (1925).

1. The Ten Commandments
2. Bringing Up Baby
3. The Stroll
4. The Boy and the Heron
5. Mulholland Drive
6. Strike
7. The Devil
8. The Last Forest
9. The Iron Claw
10. Shame

...plus 10 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

edward yang, kenji mizoguchi, wayne wang, hou hsiao-hsien, tsai ming-liang, ang lee, ko i-chen, apichatpong weerasthetakul, akira kurosawa, yasujiro ozu, nagisa oshima, nobuhiko obayashi, takeshi kitano, takashi miike, sion sono, hirokazu kore-eda, ryusuke hamaguchi, shuji terayama, kiyoshi kurosawa, mamoru oshii, masahiro shinoda, mikio naruse, yasuzo masamura, shohei imamura, shinji somai, shunji iwai, juzo itami, miwa nishikawa, sogo ishii, naomi kawase, ryosuke hashiguchi, toshiya fujita, hiroshi teshigahara, kaneta shindo, hideo gosha, kihachi okamoto, makoto tezuka, sabu, kon ichikawa, hideaki anno, toshiaki toyoda, susumu hani, tomu uchida, kaizo hayashi, koki mitani, toshio matsumoto, masayuki suo, kazuhiko hasegawa, shinji aoyama, banmei takahashi, masashi yamamoto, shinya tsukamoto, rokuro mochizuki, kazuo hara, keisuke kinoshita, ryuichi hiroki, ishiro honda, koreyoshi kurehara; kinji fukasaku; tsui hark; king hu

• A Brighter Summer Day
• Ugetsu
• Eat a Bowl of Tea
• Millennium Mambo
• Goodbye, Dragon Inn
• Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
• Blue Moon
• Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
• Ran
• The End of Summer

...plus 49 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

does what it says on the tin: films that come somewhat close to depicting what it's like to experience psychosis

• Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
• Naked Lunch
• In the Mouth of Madness

  kind of? sorta? not really but honorable mention?

• Society

  honourable mention

• The Witch
• The Lighthouse
• The Northman
• Nosferatu

try not to piss yourself challenge go

• The Halt
• Cleopatra
• A Brighter Summer Day
• Lawrence of Arabia
• The 47 Ronin
• The Ten Commandments
• Seven Samurai
• Killers of the Flower Moon
• Malcolm X
• Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages

...plus 18 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Tangerine
2. The Florida Project
3. Red Rocket
4. Anora
5. Take Out

no thoughts just vibes

• Scorpio Rising
• Easy Rider
• Stray Cat Rock: Delinquent Girl Boss
• Stray Cat Rock: Sex Hunter
• Smithereens
• Jubilee
• Tokyo Pop
• The Bikeriders
• Moonage Daydream

• Missing
• The Confession
• Amen.
• Shock Troops
• Betrayed
• Music Box
• My Left Eye Sees Ghosts
• I Come with the Rain
• Girl 6
• Basquiat

...plus 90 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

from most to least simulacral

1. The Grand Budapest Hotel
2. Fantastic Mr. Fox
3. Moonrise Kingdom
4. The French Dispatch
5. Asteroid City
6. Isle of Dogs
7. The Swan
8. The Rat Catcher
9. Poison
10. The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar

in which hollywood takes a long hard look in the mirror

• The Substance
• Mulholland Drive

1. Emitaï
2. Guelwaar
3. Niaye
4. Xala
5. Outsiders

1. Princess Mononoke
2. Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
3. Spirited Away
4. Howl's Moving Castle
5. Castle in the Sky
6. The Boy and the Heron
7. Grave of the Fireflies
8. Pom Poko
9. The Tale of The Princess Kaguya
10. Ponyo

...plus 13 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Mirrored Mind
• Angel Dust
• Labyrinth of Dreams
• Burst City
• Crazy Thunder Road
• Concerning Violence
• The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975
• The Society of the Spectacle
• The Fall of Ako Castle
• April Story

...plus 90 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Moonlight Whispers
• Love for an Idiot
• Blind Beast
• Horrors of Malformed Men
• Singapore Sling
• See You in Hell, My Darling
• Dogs Don't Wear Pants
• Maîtresse
• Love Exposure
• Fritz the Cat

...plus 9 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

the cyborg is a way of seeing that changes what it means to live 'the women's experience.' it is a world-changing fiction. it is a creature in a post-gender world and it will both build and destroy machines, identities, categories and relationships (Haraway, 1985).

• Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
• Orlando
• Orlando, My Political Biography
• Girls Lost
• Pierrot Lunaire
• Funeral Parade of Roses
• Barry Lyndon

  honourable mention

• The Peasants

  honourable mention

best golden leafs

• Othello
• The Cranes Are Flying
• Black Orpheus
• The Conversation
• Taxi Driver
• Apocalypse Now
• Wild at Heart
• Taste of Cherry
• Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
• Parasite

...plus 1 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

bc my watchlist too damn long

• Labyrinth of Cinema
• Post Tenebras Lux
• Ergo Proxy
• Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt
• Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks
• The Visitor
• 9 Souls
• Kirikou and the Sorceress
• Son of the White Mare
• The Wolf House

...plus 90 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

sho' nuff

1. Malcolm X
2. Do the Right Thing
3. Da 5 Bloods
4. She's Gotta Have It
5. BlacKkKlansman

• Spirited Away
• The Matrix
• The Tale of The Princess Kaguya
• The Peasants
• Suspiria
• Poor Things
• Kiki's Delivery Service
• The Motorcycle Diaries
• Dune
• The Great Gatsby

best Oscar-nom'd guys who hold their hands up in a rectangle and squint really hard

• Roman Holiday
• 2001: A Space Odyssey
• The Exorcist
• Close Encounters of the Third Kind
• Apocalypse Now
• Dead Poets Society
• Good Will Hunting
• Mulholland Drive
• Moonlight
• Killers of the Flower Moon

1. Chimes at Midnight
2. The Other Side of the Wind
3. Citizen Kane
4. Macbeth
5. Othello
6. F for Fake
7. The Magnificent Ambersons
8. The Stranger
9. Mr. Arkadin

a quasi-canon; subjectively objective

• Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters

  for the violent, conflicting nature of Beauty, underrated in its time

• Battleship Potemkin

  for its revolutionary style and substance

• Man with a Movie Camera

  for its unprecendented innovation, to go where no man had gone before

• Paprika

  for a rare work of pure imagination

• Princess Mononoke

  for its astute, sensitive treatment of ecology and modernity

• Mulholland Drive

  for a postmodern dreamscape that defies interpretation

• Enter the Void

  for a masterful synthesis of unconventional editing, imagery, and story

• The Doom Generation

  for a darkly satirical unmasking of america

• The Ballad of Narayama

  for bringing cinema into the stage, a fantastical folkloric world all to itself

• Funeral Parade of Roses

  for a rare document of buried history

...plus 2 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

honourable mentions: JFK (1991), How To Blow Up A Pipeline (2022); Joyland (2022); After Blue (2021)

1. Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance
2. Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
3. The Ballad of Narayama
4. Double Suicide
5. A Brighter Summer Day
6. Happy Together
7. Roman Holiday
8. Barry Lyndon
9. Funeral Parade of Roses
10. A Chinese Odyssey Part One: Pandora's Box

...plus 10 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Onibaba
• Spirited Away
• Suspiria
• The Witch
• Hereditary
• The Tragedy of Macbeth
• The Ballad of Narayama
• Throne of Blood
• Ugetsu
• Pastoral: To Die in the Country

...plus 50 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Because i want to include more than just Hayao

1. Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
2. Castle in the Sky
3. Grave of the Fireflies
4. My Neighbor Totoro
5. Kiki's Delivery Service
6. Only Yesterday
7. Porco Rosso
8. Ocean Waves
9. Pom Poko
10. Whisper of the Heart

...plus 13 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.