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Favorite films

  • The Tree of Life
  • Mirror
  • 2001: A Space Odyssey
  • In the Mood for Love

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  • Stray Dog

    ★★★★

  • Dersu Uzala

    ★★★★½

  • High and Low

    ★★★★★

  • Taxi

    ★★★★½

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In the Mood for Love

2000

★★★★★ Liked Rewatched

“I didn’t expect you to fall in love with me.I didn’t either. I just wanted to know how it started. Feelings can creep up just like that.”

I think that New York Times film critic Elvis Mitchell wrote the best one line review of In the Mood for Love when he said that it is "dizzy with a romantic spirit that's been missing from the cinema forever." How true those words are! It is a feast for the eyes and…

Sunset Boulevard

1950

★★★★★ Liked Watched

"All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up."

Sunset Boulevard remains the best film ever made about the hollywood.
It gets less attention as a travelogue, it's both an examination of the dark psychological landscape of out-of-fashion show-business types and an actual trip through its physical environment. The picture is more than a brilliant exercise in moviemaking techniques; it is also a blistering commentary on Hollywood manners & morals.
The images of this beautiful black and white powerhouse are fascinating…

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The Tree of Life

2011

★★★★★ Liked Rewatched

"Someday, we'll fall down and weep, and we'll understand it all. All things."

Terrence Malick's spiritual epic The Tree of Life is one of the most ambitious films of all-time. The film explores the deepest questions about the origins of life and the creation of the universe, but it's also centered on an intimate coming-of-age story of a young boy's defining childhood influences.This is the journey of the film, from the beginning of time to one man’s life, a life…

Barry Lyndon

1975

★★★★★ Liked Watched

"It was in the reign of George III that the aforesaid personages lived and quarreled; good or bad, handsome or ugly, rich or poor they are all equal now. "

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