Arjo Gupto

Favorite films

  • Memento
  • Pather Panchali
  • Blade Runner
  • It's a Wonderful Life

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  • John Wick

  • Super 8

    ★★★★★

  • Bumblebee

  • A Minecraft Movie

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Super 8

2011

★★★★★ Liked Rewatched

The finest representation of how a person can evolve his primary filmmaking inspiration to the point of being someone who has earned the right to stand proudly beside the man who made him want to be a filmmaker, to begin with.

This, right here is the dream.

John Wick

2014

Liked Rewatched

For all its excesses in action, revolutionary stunt choreography and Equilibrium-esque gun-fu, John Wick remains to be a very precise film that is underrated for its subtlety in storytelling and respect for all its visual and thematic inspirations.

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Perfect Days

2023

★★★★★ Liked Watched

“Next time is next time, today is today.”

I’ve never seen a broken heart accepted by its owner with such deliberate grace and honour. 

His routines and ability to let the light into his heart, smiling to heal as much as possible, and slowing down and being diligent for his plants in lieu of smelling roses.

All of which made me want to slow down so much by being deliberate in my choices through the day today, that I first…

Emilia Pérez

2024

Liked Watched

Lost in the discourse of awards & festival season… Emilia Pérez is a very good film, with excellent performances, cinematography production design and music that makes for an engaging and intricately choreographed musical, that’s quite a rare mainstream one at that. Deserving all the accolades it has received and will hopefully in the very very near future.

Exactly how Slumdog Millionaire deserved every honour it got.

I never really believed that Jacques Audiard is capable of making a bad film.