in my yearning era
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Crows Zero II 2009
i can only respect this film from a distance as alas im a measly woman, and not a MAN. this is cinema for the BOYS
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Vampire Girl vs. Frankenstein Girl 2009
was willing to give him the benefit of the doubt w Tokyo Gore Police, but I think Nishimura has a wrist-cutting fetish
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Nightmare Detective 2 2008
Healing through the power of cinematic montage. Some of the most painful, and graceful, images Tsukamoto has crafted can be found here. The man understands what the camera is capable of like few others
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Pleasure 2021
at first seems like a generic sex-positive shallow hangout film in the porn industry, with its cutesy female friendships and off-beat choral music as if its afraid the material itself cant stand on its own artistic merit. but that shallowness is weaponised the deeper we go, through the emotional brutalising and soul-sucking of Bella’s character; edits and cuts allow for multiple POVs in a scene for both erotic and violent treatments often of the same shot. weaponised ‘consent’ etc etc…
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Top Gun: Maverick 2022
if I am to see an explicit military recruitment ad where they cant be bothered to name the enemy rogue state, I at least want to see Tom Cruise nearly k*** himself multiple times
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Achilles and the Tortoise 2008
The joy in my heart when 80 minutes into his own film i see Beat Takeshi’s face on screen for the first time in a while. I miss my weird old dad.
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Edward II 1991
in which Derek Jarman, one of the greatest set designers, places the characters amongst little but dark walls and shadows, echoing the origins of the material, and so its clearest that Jarman sees history as a series of parallel lines of struggling against oppression, of violence as a necessity of the oppressor and the oppressed, and of love, doomed or otherwise, as the greatest weapon