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My family saw this right after we finished “Paris, Texas’' and as we all like Wim Wenders’ films—Japan is also a cool topic—see this little treat on the Criterion Channel?

I could not get the pictures, the composition, the cinematography out of my head.

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This felt more like a theater or a play than a film.

What a harrowing read.

Days of Being Wild is where you can see WKW polishing and finding the style that we would come to adore and love in Chunking Express and later in his absolute and undisputed magnum opus, In the Mood for Love.

Black Bag goes down like a glass of clean sharp martini—no brine, no olives, and definitely more gin than vermouth.

What a disappointment.

It was fine.

Ahead of its time.

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The Brutalist with Adrian Brody left a mix of conflicting feelings—not the kinds that make you think, but the kinds that make you forget you have ever even seen the movie two days after the fact, which is me right now at night in the kitchen with nothing…

Having tried using Alacritty for a few months a few years ago left a bit of a bitter aftertaste with shoddy multi-monitor support, custom fonts, lack of macos compatibility (the app icon would behave erratically), and the “Rewrite in Rust” stench.

Mesmerizing, breathtaking, and ruthless in slicing your heart into the tiniest of pieces.

It actually didn’t impress me that much.

It has a good story to tell but wholly lacks in imagination, discipline, technique, nuance, and courage to tell it well.

Exquisitely shot and directed film built on vibes and loneliness.

I have been using OneDrive as my CDN, where I would mask their big and ugly embed URLs with my custom-rolled monokuma url shortener.

My partner’s entire family has shocked me because they have never seen Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.

This really had no reason to be this good.

Until about a week ago I was not aware of Sabrina Carpenter’s existence.

Classic of the times—I think it must have been more than a decade since the last time I saw this movie.

I’m in love with Kaoming’s works and characters they bring to life so effortlessly.

I just came back from a special screening of Interstella 5555 that was remastered with AI.

An aggressively mediocre rendition of the original, quite enjoyable for its visual effects, yet wholly lacking in anything substantial or even shallow to say when it comes to its story, message, and legacy.

We have seen each other in 2021, 2022, 2023, and now it is finally the turn for 2024 to come out and shine.

Bleak America—exactly how it is.

It doesn’t really get more perfect and contained than this.

Back to basics!

K.K. likes her martini extra dirty.

A bit of a tough watch if experienced in its original form.

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I simply love it.

A spaghetti ramen western set in Japan!

Highly recommended to me by my partner and what an interesting film this is.

Watching Crimes of Passion is akin to drinking a concoction made up by mixing oil and water.

I received this picture over the iMessage wire and realized that this was my cue to rewatch Dead Poets Society, which I haven’t seen in such a long time that I have forgotten almost if not all of it.

“Hey, want to watch this 2 hour long French silent film from 1928 about the court proceedings of Joan of Arc of 1431?”

Now this is my kind of movie and tempo.

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So this is the power of the spiral...

I felt so frustrated with myself.

A Werner Herzog Documentary.

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WE ARE SEX BOB-OMB!

Good movie just right for the Christmas spirit.

Went to the movie theater, which was rolling this classic.

I have finally come around to reading Susan Sontag’s “Against Interpretation”; and “I was never so bethumped with words since I first called my brother’s father dad.”

Perfection.