Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  The Trained Chinese Tongue 1994

  Watched 17 Sep 2023

  So warm

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  Reel/Unreel 2012

  Watched 17 Sep 2023

  This has restored my faith

Popular reviews

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  Guns of the Trees 1961

  ★★★★★ Watched 22 Jan 2017 1

  The debut of all debuts. At the beginning, Jonas declares that it's an unfinished piece of film, and I know that it will always be unfinished no matter how complete it was, because it extends into me.

  "The state of happiness is when you’re with friends and you have food and good conversation and lifted voices and you drink and eventually, where I come from, we sing and dance. It’s an intense moment of existence. There are many people who…

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  Four Seasons: Natsuko 1980

  ★★★★½ Watched 31 Dec 2017

  "Let's sit down here, my dearest,
  Look and see how much I care.
  I will listen to the tempest
  Under your submissive stare.

  All this golden vegetation
  And this fair lock of hair,
  They have come just like salvation
  Of the loafer free of care.

  Long ago I left my village
  With the blooming fields and thicket,
  Tempted by the city image
  And the life of fame, so wicked.

  So I buried in oblivion
  Orchard, summer I enjoyed
  Where I, to the frogs' singing,
  Raised myself to be a poet."

  - Sergei Yesenin, 1923

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