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  • Club Havana

    ★★★★★

  • Ten Dates with Anna Marie

    ★★★

  • Easter Sunday at Félines

  • Day of the Dead

    ★★★

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LOOK WITH EYES ONLY
Liked Rewatched

Watch here! A few sad scenes and one funny scene. That’s all you really need for a film, from my experience.

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Club Havana
★★★★★ Liked Watched

such a composite is difficult to imagine today but here, ulmer does this all of a shoestring budget. who today is operating within multiple spaces like this, choreographing each section of the set with it’s own laws for shot-reverse shot, gestures, lighting, camera movement, tracking? directors don’t conduct anymore. who will take up the baton?

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One Battle After Another
★★ Watched

“In the same way, and based on the same observations, I believe it's not possible to make truly interesting left-wing films today.
The renewal must come from right-wing films, essentially. Because the left today represents conformism, and because - aside from those who are truly right-wing - everyone pretends to be left-wing. We see, then, that people generally film ‘on the left’ as an alibi, while they live on the right.” - Luc Moullet

Dry Leaf
★★★★★ Liked Watched

one of the few current pieces of art attempting to put cezanne’s methodology to work. this cellphone camera creates images more honestly than any big budget camera being used in the industry today. there’s silent geometry in each frame, but the pixel refresh gives each shot a pulsating quality. life still breathes in film.

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