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Happy Together 1997

★★★★★ Rewatched 22 Feb 2023 2

TONY LEUNG: I have many regrets and I think they will kill me.
CHANG CHEN: I have a cool baseball cap.
Days 2020

Watched 22 Oct 2020 2

When a filmmaker holds on each shot for so long that the entirety of the film forever burrows its way deep into your consciousness... that’s a Tsai-op.

The Straight Story 1999

★★★★★ Rewatched 30 Oct 2024 1

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The Plumber 1979

★★½ Watched 27 Oct 2024 1

Get a load of this crazy plumber.

TÁR 2022

★★★★½ Watched 31 Oct 2022 27

JUILLIARD STUDENT: I never played The Last of Us. I’d rather spend my free time—and my money—supporting work places that foster fair labor practices.
LYDIA TÁR: Oh, yes, I suppose we should sacrifice the mechanical ambitions of Jak X: Combat Racing and the technical prowess of A Thief’s End to the ever-evolving, reckless defenestrations of contemporary culture’s most regressive whims. Great art—like Cortex Strikes Back, or Keef the Thief—requires dedication, young man. Would you want your nascent work to be defined by how…
La Chimera 2023

★★★★★ Watched 11 Apr 2024

One of those movies that makes you think: nothing better than a movie, you know?