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Hillary's America: The Secret History of the Democratic Party 2016

½ Watched 07 Feb 2020 5

Film Neoconservatisme
Diary of a Shinjuku Thief 1969

Watched 17 Nov 2018 1

This works in so many different modes--location-shooting, documentary, heavily staged and metaphorical scenarios, kabuki theater, faux cinema vérité discourse, musical performance, black and white and color--I found it difficult to make sense of but I was always fascinated. Sometimes a scene would seemingly bring clarity to everything only to send me reeling the next moment. The only film I can think of that feels comparable in terms of transgression and scope of its concerns is Godard's Weekend, and even that…

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Hotel by the River 2018

Watched 12 Oct 2018

It was only a matter of time until someone vaped in a Hong movie
Ash Is Purest White 2018

★★★★½ Watched 03 Oct 2018 4

"But I've been living as a jianghu just to find you."
. . .
"Am I that important?"
"If not you, then what is?"
In which Jia's character's must rapidly adapt to the economic and political (sur)reality around them. For the first time, the melodrama is as fluid as the history. Less schematic than Mountains May Depart's family-through-the-decades, Ash tests the relationship between Qiao (Zhao Tao) and Bin (Liao Fan) as the former’s personal convictions and commitment to jianghu values…