realised I share a birthday with Debby Ryan and it makes the movie soooo much better to view it as the ultimate Taurus-stereotype fantasy (materialism and attention, then abject horror at Responsibilities) and for that it's spiritually 5 stars
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Drifting Clouds 1996
ehh, don't think I like this as lowly as I'm rating it but it's definitely Kaurismaki testing my patience -- can confidently say I'm far more into him when he's leaning into explicitly comedic territory (Match Factory Girl aside) so it's a shame to see very little of that flair appear here. would hesitate to call this tedious but I don't feel as though there's much reward for sticking through it, or much reason to choose it most of his other works, proletariat problems or not.
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Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery 1997
Uhm Actually The Austin Powers Lore Goes Quite Deep And The Dedicated Fanbase (Shag-Heads) Take It Quite Serious So You Scoffing And Ridiculing Towards Me Just Makes You Look Like Quite The Idioute LoL
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Despair 1978
#14 in Rainer Werner Fassbinder
been a long time since I last delved into the world of RWF and this is an, uhh, interesting one to come back with ! ultimately this is a bit of a mess plot-wise (though reading the wiki makes me think this is Pretty Cool), but Fassbinder's command of the medium and the aesthetics make this breezy and good to watch anyways -- it's definitely elevated by just how darn good Dirk Bogarde is though…
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Fat City 1972
"Did I win?"
"No"not quite the masterpiece I was looking for, hoping for, sort of expecting in all honesty, but it's still pretty damn good to say the least. I don't think Huston's film has any failures, this is just expertly directed and performed, looks totally astonishing in how hungover Edward Hopper it is; it's more or less just in the origins as novel. For as fantastic as Susan Tyrell is (her drunkenly stumbling out of the bar and…
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Floating Weeds 1959
after a rewatch for my 25th (in a very hot small town in Portugal) I'm thinking that this, maybe, might possibly, perhaps be my favourite movie. I dunno. my top 5 is just so unbelievably stacked and I'm sure I feel this way about each of them every time I rewatch each one, but there's something so genuinely special about this one -- astonishing to believe that this was a contractual obligation for Ozu that he didn't really care about…