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Tuvalu 1999

★★★★ Watched 31 May 2023

For fans of Guy Maddin, The City of Lost Children, and/or Denis Lavant. Don’t worry if you can’t find subtitles, you won’t need them. “Technology system profit!”
Goodbye South, Goodbye 1996

★★★★ Watched 31 May 2023

Hsiao-hsien surgically hacks away the meat and bones of the conventional crime drama, leaving behind only the connective tissue — tense dinner arguments, pillow talk, and sulky night drives. These cobbled in-betweens result in a very desultory sort of personality study, one that involves little direct introspection but rather unfolds through the group dynamics surrounding events that occur outside the frame. I would definitely benefit from a second viewing with better subtitles, but the eloquence behind the otherwise plain dialogue was not lost on me.

Skinamarink 2022

★★★★★ Watched 25 Dec 2022

I don’t believe that we are living through the end of history, as some do, but I have to admit that it’s rare to encounter a work whose visual presentation is not a recombination of older styles but something purely contemporary, a singular vision that could not have existed prior to its moment of creation. Even the experimental scene is still, to this day, at least 40% Brakhagean (fine by me — canons and traditions aren’t always invalid). Now be…
The Jar 1984

★★★★½ Added 2

I don't have anything against 'bad movie' riffing. Love it, actually. As a kid my parents would wake up on Saturday mornings to find me glued to the TV, cackling at Crow and Tom Servo (MST3K was still on the Sci-Fi channel then). When I discovered RLM's Best of the Worst series it felt like a continuation of that same experience, though I quickly learned to discard their serious film opinions. After dozens of episodes I realized that what I…