ian

*weyes blood voice* i love movies

writing for sight & sound, the baffler, tribune, etc!

Favorite films

  • The Tale of the Princess Kaguya
  • Make Way for Tomorrow
  • Forever a Woman
  • Farewell My Concubine

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  • Late Autumn

    ★★★★

  • The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

    ★★★★½

  • L'Argent

    ★★★★

  • Disenchanted

    ★★★½

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  • Kiki's Delivery Service

    Kiki's Delivery Service

    ★★★★★

    great film about how profoundly lonely it is to be a teenager

  • Titanic

    Titanic

    ★★★★★

    when i was about 12 i went to new york for the first (and so far only) time, and we went to the museum of moving image in queens. there are lots of little details from this visit that i remember (like seeing the prop of linda blair from the exorcist and being so scared that when i went out into the hallway i thought i was going to be murdered lol) but the thing that stands out the most…

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  • Late Autumn

    Late Autumn

    ★★★★

    people will go to excruciating lengths to manipulate and bully you into social conformity and tear you away from the one meaningful relationship left in your life, all while telling themselves that they're doing you a favour

  • The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

    The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

    ★★★★½

    This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

    one of the most revolting films to rewatch when you realise that during the scene where mikael has dinner with martin for the first time, and martin says he's going to close a window because there's a draught, actually the sound you're hearing is one of his victim's screams. i hate you david fincher!!!!

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  • Everything Everywhere All at Once

    Everything Everywhere All at Once

    ★★½

    i think it's maybe worth saying that this film had me on the verge of tears within the first few scenes and at some point in the last half hour i was basically weeping. i'm weak to any kind of sentimental family drama, and when it's about a chinese immigrant family struggling and striving, and when the child of that family is a depressed twentysomething unable to find her place in the world... i think i would have to be…

  • One Fine Morning

    One Fine Morning

    ★★★★

    quiet films about the small disappointments of everyday life in which people cry a lot are so important to me!!!