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Robinson Crusoe on Mars 1964

★★★★ Watched 04 Jan, 2021

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This movie’s visual effects and gorgeously illustrated backdrops almost made me forget about its several groan-inducing plot points (Egyptian alien slave miners?). And as a 1960s sci-fi film, the comically dissonant space logic gets a pass, I guess.
Taste of Cherry 1997

★★★★ Watched 29 Dec, 2020

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This movie began in slow, deliberate Kiarostami fashion, but quickly took me in.
Taste of Cherry is about inevitable and complementary forces. The gravity that aids Mr. Badii’s first passenger in fleeing down a hillside and later stops his car in its tracks is as natural and impeding as the religious beliefs that deter his passengers from agreeing to help him commit suicide. There’s a comedic cruelty in the way that Mr. Badii witnesses these natural forces at play, specifically…
Funeral Parade of Roses 1969

★★★★★ Watched 14 Dec, 2020 1

Stunning monochrome, hypnotic multi-media editing, queer inversion of the Oedipal complex as nightmarish plot line...This movie has the feel of being draped in barbed lace and it’s the best thing I’ve ever seen.
Clean, Shaven 1993

★★★½ Watched 18 Sep, 2020

A list sold this movie as “feel good” to me but it actually made me want to curl up into a tight ball and roll off the edge of a cliff.
Frownland 2007

★★★ Watched 22 Mar, 2020

I feel philosophically unwell after suffering through the entirety of this movie. Gonna go take a hot shower.
Joker 2019

★½ Added

I used to think my life was a tragedy
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but now I realize it’s a fucking comedy
Fantastic Planet 1973

★★★★★ Added

What an adorable lesson in compassion
Big Trouble in Little China 1986

★★★★★ Added 1

Kurt Russell cast as chief doofus= my favorite cinematic male archetype of all time
The Turin Horse 2011

★★★★★ Added 2

Bela Tarr's long shots force you to confront your own disposition, but more specifically, your ability to sit comfortably with yourself in the face of utter dejection. And I love that.