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1960

★★½ Watched 23 May 2025

Avoided this one for awhile as it’s the old Indian movie all my friends love so figured not liking it would confirm this genre is hopeless for me, and that’s what happened.

1988

★★★½ Watched 22 May 2025

It’s exactly how my local movie theatre d it it’s got DeNiro and is a lot of fun.

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1963

★★★★★ 4

The only Kurosawa I had seen was Rashomon (1950) in a class I took in college called Philosophy and Film. I dreading it. I don't care for period pieces. Rashomon surprised me. I was impressed by it. I the imagery being awe-inspiring and the film being masterfully put together. That said, I still feel as though Rashomon is overrated. The trifurcated plot device is gimmicky, not in the sense that it is lame, but that it is cause…

1991

★★ Watched 25 Sep 2016

After seeing Yi Yi (2000) many years ago, and now this, the best word I can think of to describe director Edward Yang is overkill.

His movies consist of perfectly composed scene after perfectly composed scene after perfectly composed scene after perfectly composed scene.

Much action occurs, but Yang moves things along in so stately a manner that the most frequent sound is silence.

The experience of going to see a Yang film is like being excited to dress up…

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