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The ending kinda makes the message of this movie really incoherent…

Watched on Wednesday May 28, 2025.

Every element of this movie I liked except for Tom Sturridge who needs to be around a thousand times more snivelling and the camera in the saving the lambs party which needed to calm down because it was giving me nausea.

Watched on Monday May 26, 2025.

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ghost baby vs ancient ancestor one of the greatest final showdowns

Watched on Wednesday May 7, 2025.

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The Louis Jouvet segment is twenty perfect minutes the movie never lives up to again.

Watched on Saturday May 3, 2025.

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a lot stupider than lang’s mabuse movies but with a pretty great ending. i kind of resent that mabuse becomes like a one to one hitler metaphor in this one, feels too easy, has some weird implications.

Watched on Sunday April 27, 2025.

Maybe that’s all Mabuse is. The evil that men do.

I am used to a much higher tier of HK baddie than this. No idea where they found this guy but he lacks the spark. Like even a lot of stuntmen have more charisma than this antagonist.

I’m not sure if it’s acting through multiple facial prosthetics or what, but Muni gives a bizarrely wooden performance that is *incredibly* boring to watch. Garfield as a Mexican revolutionary starts out laughable though you do get earblind to him after enough time. Weird choice to sanctify emperor Max like this. Poor Bette Davis.

Watched on Monday April 21, 2025.

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i am fascinated by the female lead’s magnificent cloud of hair.

Watched on Monday April 14, 2025.

kind of looks like a perfume commercial and i don’t think the director knew what to do with superman who is giving very blandly handsome. interesting story though.

Watched on Saturday April 12, 2025.

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• Caught by the Tides
• Sinners
• Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning

1. Once Upon a Time in the West
2. The End of the Day
3. Charade
4. The Eternal Return
5. Zero for Conduct
6. The Wages of Fear
7. Pépé le Moko
8. The Big Country
9. Sparrow
10. Polyester

...plus 68 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• The Age of Innocence
• All That Heaven Allows
• An American in Paris
• Children of Paradise
• Doctor Zhivago
• The French Lieutenant's Woman
• Hedwig and the Angry Inch
• Kwaidan
• The Leopard
• Orpheus

...plus 412 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. I Saw the TV Glow
2. La Chimera
3. Dahomey
4. Challengers
5. The Beast
6. Red Rooms
7. The Room Next Door
8. I'm Still Here
9. No Other Land
10. Evil Does Not Exist

...plus 77 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Wise Blood
• The Neon Bible
• Eve's Bayou
• Black Rainbow
• Suddenly, Last Summer
• The Night of the Hunter
• The Paperboy

1. Samurai Rebellion
2. Altered States
3. I Know Where I'm Going!
4. High and Low
5. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
6. Maurice
7. For Me and My Gal
8. An Autumn's Tale
9. The Valiant Ones
10. The Witch

...plus 210 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• , Year Zero
• Ju Dou
• The Devil, Probably
• Nocturama
• Sunset Song
• Threads
• The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
• The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity
• The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer
• Cyclo

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

• The Devil, Probably
• Afire
• How to Blow Up a Pipeline
• Nocturama
• Evil Does Not Exist

Iconic cat cinema.

• Footlight Parade
• L'Atalante
• Inside Llewyn Davis
• From Russia with Love
• Cats
• Guys and Dolls
• The Long Goodbye
• The Cat
• Cats on Park Avenue
• When the Cat Comes

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

avoiding all the movies that are just homoerotic or contain gay side characters, these are movies that are more or less about queerness. that i have seen.

1. He's a Woman, She's a Man

   gender fuckery

2. Farewell My Concubine

   about a gay man

3. The Wedding Banquet

   gay man stages a fake hetero marriage to please his disapproving parents

4. Happy Together

   gay men in toxic love

5. Green Snake

   trans metaphor

6. Chinese Odyssey 2002

   gender fuckery

7. All About Love

   about a lesbian

8. Full Moon in New York

   about a bisexual

9. Three Times

   third story is about a bisexual musician

10. Vive L'Amour

    colead is a gay man

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

• Wuthering Heights
• Bright Star
• Orpheus
• My Heart Is That Eternal Rose
• Chungking Express
• Platform
• Mountains May Depart
• Ninotchka
• Rebecca
• I Know Where I'm Going!

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

1. The Iron Claw
2. Showing Up
3. A Haunting in Venice
4. How to Blow Up a Pipeline
5. Killers of the Flower Moon
6. May December
7. Return to Seoul
8. ages
9. Oppenheimer
10. The Zone of Interest

...plus 38 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Happy Together
2. The Big Heat
3. The Red Shoes
4. A Moment of Romance
5. Picnic at Hanging Rock
6. Eve's Bayou
7. The Last Picture Show
8. Possession
9. Last Hurrah for Chivalry
10. Running on Karma

...plus 131 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• The Devil's Envoys
• Donkey Skin
• Three Wishes for Cinderella
• Beauty and the Beast

1. Running Out of Time
2. A Hero Never Dies
3. Running on Karma
4. Triad Election
5. Exiled
6. The Heroic Trio
7. Throw Down
8. Election
9. The Longest Nite
10. Running Out of Time 2

...plus 4 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Raise the Red Lantern
2. Red Sorghum
3. Hero
4. To Live
5. Ju Dou
6. House of Flying Daggers
7. Shadow
8. Shanghai Triad
9. The Story of Qiu Ju
10. Curse of the Golden Flower

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

1. A Better Tomorrow
2. The Killer
3. Last Hurrah for Chivalry
4. Face/Off
5. Mission: Impossible II
6. Hard Boiled
7. Once a Thief
8. A Better Tomorrow II
9. Red Cliff II
10. Hard Target

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

every current movie i have seen in 2022!

1. Benediction
2. Memoria
3. Petite Maman
4. Aftersun
5. Saint Omer
6. The Eternal Daughter
7. Nanny
8. Bones and All
9. Nope
10. Decision to Leave

...plus 70 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Distant Voices, Still Lives
2. The Long Day Closes
3. Benediction
4. The House of Mirth
5. The Deep Blue Sea
6. The Terence Davies Trilogy
7. A Quiet ion
8. The Neon Bible
9. Sunset Song

1. Wuthering Heights
2. The Heiress
3. The Best Years of Our Lives
4. Funny Girl
5. Jezebel
6. Roman Holiday
7. The Letter

• Vive L'Amour
• The Hole
• Goodbye, Dragon Inn
• What Time Is It There?
• Days
• Rebels of the Neon God

dedicated to helen and her vampire month of october 2022!

1. Bram Stoker's Dracula
2. Dracula
3. Thirst
4. The Hunger
5. Only Lovers Left Alive
6. Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary
7. Cronos
8. Nosferatu
9. Let the Right One In
10. Near Dark

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

1. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
2. Lust, Caution
3. Eat Drink Man Woman
4. Brokeback Mountain
5. Sense and Sensibility
6. The Wedding Banquet
7. Pushing Hands

1. Yi Yi
2. Taipei Story
3. Terrorizers
4. Mahjong
5. A Brighter Summer Day
6. That Day, on the Beach

• Don't Look Now
• The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
• Lust, Caution
• In the Cut
• Days
• Y Tu Mamá También
• Dangerous Liaisons
• The Pillow Book
• Boogie Nights
• Velvet Goldmine

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

Every new-to-me movie I saw, in preferential order. Mostly videodrome and criterion channel picks, mixed with some kids movies I watched with my baby.

1. Do the Right Thing
2. The Virgin Suicides
3. All About Lily Chou-Chou
4. The Heiress
5. Face/Off
6. Brokeback Mountain
7. A Touch of Zen
8. Peking Opera Blues
9. Sense and Sensibility
10. A City of Sadness

...plus 72 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Magnolia
2. Boogie Nights
3. Phantom Thread
4. There Will Be Blood
5. The Master
6. Licorice Pizza

• All About Lily Chou-Chou
• A Brighter Summer Day
• Rebels of the Neon God
• The Virgin Suicides
• if....
• River's Edge
• Elephant
• Bully
• Jawbreaker
• Romeo + Juliet

My 2021 goal is to watch more Asian cinema, and I decided to focus on the movies of China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. This is where I’ll list and rank every movie seen and liked.

I’m not including things I do not like. List is ranked purely in order of how much I liked them!

1. Chungking Express
2. Yi Yi
3. Lust, Caution
4. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
5. My Heart Is That Eternal Rose
6. Mountains May Depart
7. A Better Tomorrow
8. Hero
9. In the Mood for Love
10. A Touch of Zen

...plus 80 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• The Souvenir: Part II
• Royal Warriors
• Triad Election
• A Chinese Ghost Story II
• Frozen II
• Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again
• Paddington 2
• Kill Bill: Vol. 2
• The Mummy Returns
• The Mask of Zorro

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

I have a friend I was talking about this with, and he said that WKW was too unique to really do a list like this. And, maybe, but this is my list of other movies with WKW vibes that fans will DEFINITELY like.

• My Heart Is That Eternal Rose
• Millennium Mambo
• Daughter of the Nile
• Terrorizers
• Taipei Story
• Suzhou River
• Made in Hong Kong
• Rebels of the Neon God
• Chinese Odyssey 2002

Every current movie I saw in 2021. Keep in mind that this isn’t a top 50 or whatever, it’s everything I saw.

1. The Souvenir: Part II
2. Drive My Car
3. The Power of the Dog
4. Parallel Mothers
5. West Side Story
6. Dune
7. The Green Knight
8. Titane
9. Bergman Island
10. The Mitchells vs. the Machines

...plus 44 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Mountains May Depart
2. Ash Is Purest White
3. Unknown Pleasures
4. The World
5. A Touch of Sin
6. Pickpocket
7. Platform
8. Swimming Out Till the Sea Turns Blue
9. 24 City
10. I Wish I Knew

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

1. Chungking Express
2. Lust, Caution
3. In the Mood for Love
4. My Heart Is That Eternal Rose
5. Infernal Affairs
6. Hard Boiled
7. Hero
8. Ashes of Time
9. Flowers of Shanghai
10. A City of Sadness

he has like a million movies, i know i’m not done yet lol.

1. Daughter of the Nile
2. A City of Sadness
3. The Assassin
4. Flowers of Shanghai
5. Dust in the Wind
6. The Boys from Fengkuei
7. Millennium Mambo
8. Three Times

• Fanny and Alexander
• All That Heaven Allows
• City on Fire
• Less Than Zero
• The Night of the Hunter
• In Bruges
• Anna and the Apocalypse
• Meet Me in St. Louis
• The Apartment
• Edward Scissorhands

Costume dramas that furthered the genre in that indescribable way!

I really tried to keep this to 10 and to keep it from being just another list of my favorite costume dramas.

Other great picks that I left off: Amadeus, Joe Wright’s Anna Karenina, The New World, Moulin Rouge, Hero.

• Marie Antoinette
• The Draughtsman's Contract
• Orlando
• The French Lieutenant's Woman
• Danton
• Titus
• Peterloo
• The Scarlet Empress
• Satyricon
• Russian Ark

• To Die For
• In the Cut
• Orlando
• Black Coal, Thin Ice
• Little Women

Current movies I saw in 2020, ranked against each other.

1. Portrait of a Lady on Fire
2. First Cow
3. Minari
4. And Then We Danced
5. Another Round
6. Da 5 Bloods
7. The Assistant
8. Sound of Metal
9. I'm Thinking of Ending Things
10. Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

...plus 19 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Every current feature film I saw in 2019, ranked against each other.

1. Little Women
2. Parasite
3. Pain and Glory
4. Us
5. Hustlers
6. The Souvenir
7. Midsommar
8. The Farewell
9. Peterloo
10. The Last Black Man in San Francisco

...plus 35 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.