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finalmente la encontre. vi esta pelicula hace mucho tiempo en una epoca muy fea de mi vida. nunca supe su nombre entonces cuando la quise ver denuevo no pude. tiene las mejores escenas de pelea en la historia de las peliculas creo noc.
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Watched on Thursday March 13, 2025.
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Watched on Wednesday February 5, 2025.
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Watched on Friday February 7, 2025.
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me hizo tan tan feliz, firme
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Watched on Wednesday November 27, 2024.
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Watched on Wednesday November 13, 2024.
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Watched on Friday August 16, 2024.
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necesito tanto
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todo esta iwalito, reconoci tanto, que emocion regresar.
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Watched on Thursday February 8, 2024.
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Watched on Thursday February 8, 2024.
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Watched on Thursday February 8, 2024.
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Watched on Friday December 15, 2023.
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ala mrd yo debi ala mrd
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this is insane. I really dont have anything to say, halfway through the movie I was really sick of it. I dont know how but it managed to feel perfect by the end. disgusting, evil, perverted, gory, everything, it feels a bit alienating and makes you not want to follow the characters on whatever development they're on, which is what happens with most pinku/gore films for me, but by the end each character has their own moment that marks the fact that, well, you have followed them up to here and you see them in all their humanity, or lack thereof. genuinely unbelievable.
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bananas how outdated this feels. honestly not that important or good, but we need more stuff like this, just better!
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crazy how sion sonos least unbearable movie is 4 hours long. i love love exposure and i expect nothing less
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giving this 2 and a half stars for reminding me that hollywood movies will always be hollywood movies and if we want anything more out of them well have to drop the hydrogen bomb on hollywood. crazy that anyone writing the script for this could think that i give more of a shit abt oppenheimmer losing his position than abt the actual unjustified and cruel bombings of hiroshima and nagasaki, which the movie hardly mentions beyond it being a historical fact. the directing, pace and editing of this movie is what it must feel like to live without emotion, what a wonderful thing to put in a shared movie theatre.
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finalmente la termine, y en el mejor momento, increíble. increíble!
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hmm
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buenonga
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bloff
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woah
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this whole movie feels like one of those inspirational life insurance comercials that theyd show you at school and it honestly works. super cheesey
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slint needle drop killed jfk
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what a beautiful movie, so glad I watched it, I wasn't planning on it, but its reawakened something in me and im so grateful. how deeply ive felt.
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cool as fuck lil watch
I should delete this review
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kitano is a complete genius, if i were to forget the parts i disliked abt this movie, what would be left is a polished gem., and im pretty quick to forget things. im blown away that even this early into his career he had such a unique and transcendental style. overall kinda disappointing but still brilliant. kitano really is one of my biggest cinematic heroes, he means the world to me.
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such a unique vision and style
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one of the most incredible and inspiring things ill ever see
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what's up letterbox
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if its taken at face value this movie is brilliant. actually manages to come off as a sincere call to arms. sabotage and non-ive resistance is all we have. that being said, this movie was made with the help of a counterterrorism expert, for the sake of being shown at film festivals, for it to be lauded as scathing and controversial by the very ppl we should take as enemies. this isnt even the beginning, it cant be. tear down the cinema curtains, take over your local movie theatre, and blow up a pipeline, for real. that is what a real love for movies and art and life calls for. as sincere as i can be
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la mejor película pastrulo-posadista peruana del año!
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if anyone had shown this to me as a little kid i wouldve been like wow old movies suck but im old enough now to realize its just french movies
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Watched on Wednesday March 8, 2023.
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pretty great oh man!
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nowhere near as bad as ppl say it is, or maybe im just crazy. so many reviews i read said this made them gag but i was eatin a pizza while watching this and i had a blast. my gut dropped a bit at the eye part, it was like a pimple popping video but thats it! its honestly a great movie, really really atmospheric, more moody and dreampopesque than disgusting
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Watched on Monday February 27, 2023.
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teshigahara was so ahead of his time holy fucking shit. Woman In The Dunes was the first arthouse film i ever saw, ever, and it completely changed my perception of what a movie could be like. i avoided teshigahara ever since, cause i was sure none of his movies could live up to Woman In The Dunes. now im watching this years later and im still not sure, but this just proves teshigahara really is special. i cant think of any movies that even come close to doing what these two movies did. fucking unreal. to me akio jissoji and teshigahara are the forgotten immortals of filmmaking, nothing compares to what they tried to do.
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“napped half the day, no one punished me!”
i dont think ill ever have an experience like this ever again in my life. were all so similar, deep down. we all the same sunbeams, the same gusts of wind, the same moon. these feel like my memories, memories i havent lived yet, i cant wait to live them, i cant wait for all the next summers and winters, cats and dogs, friends and lovers. theyre all here, and were all looking for eachother, for the same gusts of wind coming through the window on a hot afternoon, for the same sunbeams on the wall on a lazy evening.
i watched this with no stops and i really didnt prepare myself. i literally forgot about everything that had happened before i started watching the movie. what a lovely life.
“nothing happens in this movie”
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forgot to log this, blew my fucking mind. this is what being close to death must feel like, or alternatively close to god and terrified.
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i couldnt have given less of a shit about this movie i had a headache from that ugly ass black and white, ugliest black and white movie in the books! also haneke is a misogynist pig no one can change my mind on this
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I wish this had been longer, that's all I wanted I genuinely think this would be a masterpiece to me if it had just stayed in that limbo world for like 2 more hours. All I could think about during the movie was about how this is my favorite kind of plot, but I think if this had just been longer I wouldn't have even been thinking at all, id just be there and that's all I need in my life. Also the beginning monologue is probably the most human and for that reason most heartbreaking monologue centered around depression ive seen in any movie I think, I really feel like those words could've come out of my mouth.
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this fucking ruled, as brilliant and horrific as Come and See TBH! and I didn't even know Shepitko was Klimovs wife!! I really cant say anything else, because I already knew this would be this good, this blew my ass away and I cant believe I didn't watch it sooner. definitely one of the best movies ive ever seen and a new favorite and that's not even a hot take unlike all the other movies I say that about, this is just downright incredible.
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for the first quarter of this i was really confused, every review id seen of this had called it sad or depressing, but all i saw was stillness. a man sleeping, smoking, coughing, his wife working on rugs, asking if hes gotten tea and sugar yet, he always responds no. after watching the movie i read another review, one that was complaining about the movie being exploitative, in the sense that it framed peoples ordinary although poverty stricken lives as depressing and dreary. but thats not it!!! its true most of this movie is just nothing but stillness, looking into another persons quiet life, as they sleep, go to work, sit around looking at nothing, but thats not meant to be depressing. its meant to build an affective-context through which the subtle drama that goes on to unfold can be felt. theres one moment in particular, where the old man and his wife sell a carpet for a lower price than they meant to, and in any other movie thatd seem like a really inconsequential part of the story, but this movie conditions the viewer to be sensitive to more subtle, less spectacular dramas, or in other words, more human, more intimate dissapointments, shared between a man and his wife who dont even talk much. ive mentioned this before but our sensations are a form of self-recognition, when we sense something, through a work of art or whatever really, we come into our bodies, become conscious of them and their capacities to sense, our place in the world and our relationship to it. so a movie like this, gives us only stillness to sense, only a world of silence and solitude, conditions the viewer to cultivate a body which is also capable of sensing a new type of drama. it transforms the genre of ‘the drama’ completely, and for that reason I really think this is one of the greatest, no, realest dramas ever made.
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This shit was crazy! I watched Hourglass Sanitarium like about a year ago and I feeling like there was something unbelievably special and important about that movie, but I just couldn't tap into it, it was too crazy for me, and not in a negative sense, it just escaped me, the entire movie felt like a chase, me chasing after the movie, trying not to lose track, and not get lost myself. I expected this to be the exact same, so I shit you not when I say that I prepared myself like a motherfucker before watching this. I don't think I've ever prepared myself so much just to be attentive to a movie. But I really didn't need to. I fucking inhabited this movie, I completely lived it. It was so much fucking fun. Theres a weird topology to it, or a kind of rhythm or cadence to the meta-ness of it. Like there's this one part in the movie, where you have five plots existing within one another, and when each one suddenly wraps itself up, you fall all the way back down to the first story, and its a really weird experience, its like descending down in order to experience the thrill of lifting off, its amazing. and that's the thing the liftoff is so smooth in each of these stories, you completely forget you're watching a story of a story of a story of a story, because they all blend so well, and you only come to realize how far you've gone once you fall back down to earth. its fucking crazy. I genuinely was so comfortable and thrilled and happy watching this. Like I cannot explain it, the best way to describe it really is that I just inhabited it completely, and that's a great near-psychedelic experience for a movie with so many layers. Its a blessing that surrealism can feel so cozy, so homey and warm, for after all isn't that how all our dreams feel?
P.S. its also really fucking funny!
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"Yesterday I thought maybe we should give it up, what is the use of carrying on, that we might never get there. Then Alexander got mad, the way adults get mad, and told me I was betraying him"
Jesus Christ. Just the other day I was thinking about how art lets us feel the humors of certain territories, as in bodily humors, or more accurately affects. It makes them sensory, allows us to sense them, and in the same way, become through them. The fog is a humor of nature, just as bile is a humor of the human body, and this movie seems to really tap into that.
"The sensing subject does not have sensations, but, rather, in his sensing he has first himself. In sensory experience, there unfolds both the becoming of the subject and the happening of the world. I become insofar as something happens, and something happens (for me) only insofar as I become. The Now of sensing belongs neither to objectivity nor to subjectivity alone, but necessarily to both together. In sensing, both self and world unfold simul- taneously for the sensing subject; the sensing being experiences himself and the world, himself in the world, himself with the world." - Erwin Straus
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sincerely not as good as everyone says it is
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i dont know where to begin, this month i feel like ive rediscovered movies in a way, ive watched so much good shit and said great wonderful things abt all the good movies ive seen. ive found so many new favorites this month, but this doesnt even compare. this is the scariest movie ive ever seen, it feels so personal to me, as if the cosmos had suddenly put its eyes on me, with all its judgement and all its weight. i cant possibly find the words to explain how this affected me, a series of impressions which felt as if they ran parrallel to my own lingering memories and impressions of distant panic and despair, sensations crystalized at the moment of a breakdown or a fever, returning to me in the form of a movie. imagine being at the center of the universes attention, and hearing laughter in the darkness weighing down on you, with the gravity of the whole universe. jesus christ! this has to be one of the best movies ive ever seen, and i say that so much, but i mean this! a horror story about horror stories, about absolute horror as it exists in another person, in someone you love, and horror fermenting in the hearts of strangers, in their laughter and in their gaze.
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mentira ya no ya fue
- The Eternal Daughter
- Punishment Park
- Willaq Pirqa, the Cinema of My Village
- The Piano Teacher
- The Whale
- Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
- Blow Out
- Babylon
- Dreams
- Daughter of the Nile
...plus 61 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>I hate people who make lists, if you make lists: die.
These movies are sort of in order, from my favorite to least favorite, but not really, you can give or take.
- Eureka
- Bound for the Fields, the Mountains, and the Seacoast
- Yi Yi
- Céline and Julie Go Boating
- I Am Cuba
- Burden of Dreams
- This Transient Life
- March Comes In Like a Lion
- Metal and Melancholy
- Fallen Angels
...plus 39 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>- Spirited Away
- My Neighbor Totoro
- Princess Mononoke
- Seven Samurai
- Grave of the Fireflies
- Perfect Blue
- House
- Battle Royale
- Ran
- Audition
...plus 112 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
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- Dancer in the Dark
- Barry Lyndon
- Doomed Love
- Yearning
- When a Woman Ascends the Stairs
- The Wayward Cloud
- The Given Word
- The Life of Oharu
- Au Hasard Balthazar
- Diary of a Country Priest
...plus 73 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>movies weve watched (or will watch) in our bloody fingaz movie club
- Funeral Parade of Roses
- Throw Away Your Books, Rally in the Streets
- Crazy Thunder Road
- Pickpocket
- Bound for the Fields, the Mountains, and the Seacoast
- Spacy
- Atman
- Cure
- Mulholland Drive
- The Worst Person in the World
...plus 15 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>- This Transient Life
- Poem
- Stalker
- Ivan's Childhood
- Fallen Angels
- The Cranes Are Flying
- Throw Away Your Books, Rally in the Streets
- The Cow
- Come and See
- Buffalo '66
...plus 27 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>- House
- Jigoku
- Repo Man
- Titane
- Jujutsu Kaisen 0
- Funeral Parade of Roses
- Electric Dragon 80.000 V
- Linda Linda Linda
- Oldboy
- La Haine
...plus 10 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>gotta watch more movies this summer babyyt
(numbers are just so I can pick shit at random)
- Devils on the Doorstep
- Moving
- Black God, White Devil
- A Confucian Confusion
- Mahjong
- Allegro non troppo
- Eternity and a Day
- Landscape in the Mist
- Haru
- Benilde or the Virgin Mother
...plus 63 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>- The Last Movie
- Blue Spring
- mid90s
- Kikujiro
- Gushing Prayer
- Ecstasy of the Angels
- Go, Go Second Time Virgin
- Night Is Short, Walk On Girl
- Amulet
- The ion of Anna
...plus 7 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>“It is only by way of pain one arrives at pleasure”
― Marquis de Sade
and nailing em GOOD too.
]]>Let’s pat the ground that covers the coffin of wholesomeness culture. Death to fake wholesome shit, long live truly wholesome kino shit.
These are films that give off a wholesome vibe; that everything is alright. Now, a lot of the films I’ve added on here might seem antithetical to that description, but regardless, in their molecular structure there is something beautifully soothing in them, through their amalgamation of sound, sight and subjectification, they paint themes of the peak of our lives. Joe Hisaishis composition is obviously fucking godly, so you’ll find that all over the place here, music is after all the greatest molecular bind.
Some movies may seem unredeemable, so I’ll be posting some notes on the lists notes for those movies, justifying their wholesomeness.
- Spirited Away
I mean come on. Vision = Embodiment, and in this case, Embodiment = Childish curiosity of what lurks in the distance, what might happen there, what we might do if we get there, etc. This is dreaminess at its highest point of evolution.
- My Neighbor Totoro
- Ernest & Celestine
- Fireworks
You will never change my mind: Takeshi Kitano is the most wholesome actor/director ever. A film about an alienated and depressed violent ass retired cop, who kills and robs and steals just so he can have a nice vacation with his wife, who he is estranged from. Takeshi Kitano creates a calm world that exists on nothing but a realm of tranquility, yet is filled to the brim with violence. The latter part of the plot and the former part of my explication on Kitano's mood are what makes this movie, and a lot of his other movies, so fucking wholesome.
- Old Joy
- The Tale of The Princess Kaguya
- Fantastic Mr. Fox
- Harold and Maude
- Before Sunset
- Yi Yi
What can I say? This is not conventionally wholesome, but still the single most wholesome movie ever made in my opinion. The joy of childhood innocence reconciled by the darkness that lurks around it; family dramas; dying loved ones; school crushes; a depressing landscape. Honestly, this and Brighter Summer Day are the most ‘real’ wholesome movies out there; they reconciles it’s beauty with its darkness so astonishingly.
...plus 30 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>- Ran
- The Cow
- The Cremator
- Sorry to Bother You
- The Thin Red Line
- In the Soup
- Days of Being Wild
- Operation Avalanche
- Woman in the Dunes
- La Llorona
...plus 4 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>Heres sum shit, sum great good stuff, primarily from my beloved country but also including other films from neighboring countries, especially post-colonial stuff, and of course where to find them.
check reading notes
this is a work in progress <3 if u have any recs or links, comment em, especially if you have any idea of where to find the films of "legendary" (legendary because he's made so many amazing looking films that I cant find even after hours of research) documentarian/director Jorge Sanjines.
also check out:
CAMPESINOS and everything else that that website contains.