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  Tokyo Story 1953

  Rewatched by Erik Bajzert 17 Jan 2022

  A rewatch only confirms what I’ve held all along: Tokyo Story is a staggering work of art and one of cinema’s defining explorations of love, apathy, repression and regret. 

  A few things I fixated on this time around:

  - The scars left by the Second World War are much more explicit than I remembered. Ozu’s entire Noriko trilogy deals with shifting personal and cultural paradigms in postwar Japan, but the way in which Shoji’s ghost hangs over the entire drama…

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  Early Summer 1951

  Watched by Erik Bajzert 15 Jan 2022

  A lot going on here- so much that I feel like a second viewing will ultimately cement my thoughts- but all of it is quite lovely. This feels like a counter point to Late Spring that’s both lighter and tone and broader in scope. Predictably good stuff.

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  White Chicks 2004

  ★★★★★ Added by Erik Bajzert

  There are movies

  And then there is C I N E M A

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  Home on the Range 2004

  Added by Erik Bajzert 5

  I remember the tagline for this movie being, "bust a moo on April 2" so, every April 2 I bust a couple moos in its honor.