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  Agitator 2001

  ★★★★ Watched 15 Sep 2023

  An unconventional and terrific yakuza movie, it takes you along for the ride, hey look it's Fukasaku and Seijun Suzuki over there, let's thumb our noses at them! The scene where they're playing baseball in the street was amazing.

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  Judex 1916

  ★★★★½ Watched 12 Sep 2023

  Everything you need for a good movie within: a woman in a bathing suit, a gun, a car chase, breathless filming of packs of dogs, a hi-tech cave and cameras, recreations of famous paintings and the best improv street scenes and landscapes this side of Pasolini. Now I just want to only watch Feuillade and maybe some Edgar Ulmer or Harald Reinl

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  Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson 1976

  ★ Watched 26 Aug 2023

  Buffalo Bill self-mythologizes himself but is somehow a lot like Richard Nixon in Secret Honor?

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  Still Life 2006

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 22 Aug 2023

  The way the camera treats the landscape/land art/architecture as important and the perspectives of where the human figures are in relation to the scarred landscape mirror their own alienation and displacement. They're stuck in limbo. It's never committed to any one branch of the narrative tree. It could be a surrealist drama, or a documentary, or a dualistic political allegory with karaoke, but it eludes easy categorization. The industrial themes and scale remind me of Don Delillo's Underworld. A 21st century digital classic.

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