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  Roofs of the World! Unite! 2006

  Watched 30 Nov 2022

  "organic roofing salad"

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  The Pins 1913

  Watched 28 Jan 2022 1

  outrageous ending! perret actively uses the lack of sound to concentrate the (amusing) shock of revelation in the precise moment the maid hears and realises. also, he's a dog.

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  Arctic Fury 1951

  Watched 28 Nov 2020

  (She walks into room) -'Reino!'
  -'Talk less'.

  That might be the most Finnish thing i've ever seen.

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  Pain Is... 1997

  ★★★★ Watched 25 Mar 2014

  filmref.com/notes/archives/stephen_dwoskin/

  "...In this respect, Dwoskin's cinema may be seen, not solely in terms of the convergence between the physical and the ephemeral, but rather, in a more thematically overarching aesthetic of temporal intersections and, in particular, those that occur within the human act of seeing - when the gaze transforms from curiosity to voyeurism, from information to imagination, from peripherality to fixation.

  In Pain Is..., Dwoskin's thoughtful rumination on the nature of pain, this intersection occurs in the conceptual mechanism…