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Reshot By Chad (not derogatory)

one of those experiences like seeing seven samurai in which the picture is somehow 100x better than everything you've heard. towering kinetic energy from on high. not a single wasted second.

the gates open, the confidence - euphoric.

and it never stops.

masterpiece.

hugely talkie, overstuffed thing that leads to two of the most unbelievable action set pieces i will ever see in my life. staring up at silver screen goodbye dragon inn stuff.

thank you for everything, mr. movies.

cinema spell. moment to moment yang has entire worlds within worlds in the frame. there is always something. something to learn. something to question. something to open your heart. something to sicken. here, we watch a city and a few of it's inhabitants on the brink of Something. constant suggestion. our human experience, our actions rippling outwards. the butterfly effect of it all. are we in the past? present? convergent? dreaming?

i could see tsai watching this beside me and it ripped me up. terrorizers is all over stray dogs, days, goodbye dragon inn. pick any image here and you'll wonder why you would bother spending time watching anyone else. horrifying film at times and yet the deepest comfort. i am safe with yang's camera.

just absolutely pounding the corn! everyone is gettin fucking smoked and im killing this shit!

wkw and chris doyle have no choice but to create life. energy and life. propulsive, frantic, still, pure.

with reckless abandon

AND NOW THE DEE EE AAAAAYS GOT A CHOPPER IN THE AAAAAIR

a universe plunged into hell on of a few individuals in a tower.

and then, hope.

a masterpiece of soaring blockbuster filmmaking nearly without peer. george's immense cinematic vocabulary and love for the history of the medium come together one last time to push forward and plant the flag. soap opera because love is all that matters. it is poetry and it does rhyme.

the happiest moment of my life

and that's why we go to the movies

for a few hours...we was free

lmfao paul you are so awesome man

alice and laura palmer. to know that it will happen.

what a piece of shit! love bein at da movies

this is the cruelest form of tyranny. it runs counter to the laws of humanity and cannot be condoned by the heavens.

eternal glory to the moving image. there is always another masterpiece.

colour narrative. the moving image.

llorando
por tu amor
llorando
por tu amor

the boundless empathy of kenji mizoguchi

form and fluid. centuries of male behavior compounding and arriving at dead end poetry.

one of the most beautiful things i've ever seen.

something only cinema can provide

an actual good movie

i believe in different things in different places

why is a baker like a beggar

all women and certain women. everything far away. internal and external landscapes stretching forever. connections within touching distance but separated by miles.

it's not a joke it's a rope, tuco

thought i was havin trouble with my adding

heartbreaking intro, transcendent finale. big chris mandate of heaven.

get three coffins ready

and then i woke up

can't explain how good it feels to be able to go out and see a mid budget tight 90 spy flick. MAN! man oh man. fucking awesome.

so hot.

somebody has gotta do it already

will your bones break if i hold you

it makes no sense that they're dead - it must be a conspiracy.

astonishing just how funny and heart shattering this thing is from scene to scene and simultaneously so within the same moments. the one and only david cronenberg.

Watched on Tuesday March 11, 2025.

orson at 25 years old:

This review may contain spoilers.

a dry well that only exists to individuals who are in debt. a luxury car. schrodinger's cat. a girl that exposes her soul one final time before being killed by two men and herself.

why do you undress so easily in front of men? only whores do that.

Watched on Sunday March 9, 2025.

Watched on Saturday March 8, 2025.

do you know what i want to do when i grow up? i want to tell people things they don't know. show them stuff they haven't seen. it'll be so much fun.

there are always words but for now i do not care to find them. i was 31 years old when i saw edward yang's yi yi.

you can't see it yourself, so i help you.

everything revealed to you at once. every unbroken image our entire story.

empathy and respect.

seen at 6:30am on a thursday.

you look good, lee.
i do?
no. but it's good to see you.

everything non corporeal. a false mexico that exists only in burrough's mind. a true grasp without touch. a need to love by understanding.

doused in mud. soaked in bleach.

‼️‼️‼️ HOLY FUCKING SHIT ‼️‼️‼️

honestly plodding but still really fun at times and some very strong images! not at all in the vein of stuff that scares me as it does so many others but experiencing actual fear isn't mandatory in my horror criteria anyway weirdly enough. anyway yeah, there's a mythos here that - for my tastes - deserves to be in another film entirely.

fucking loved the tv show for psychic kids lmao.

eerie to view something that entirely confronts the thing i've put an interminable amount of thought into lately.

collections of memories that are somehow yours and yet are not.

cinema spell

reaches for the stars and makes

we live together. suddenly i'm old.

k.k. always elevates. when you've settled in and found the rhythm - this is when he strikes.

what's your point?

no point

saving half a star in case of a blu ray release

This review may contain spoilers.

the entirety of the film is within the shot of the hallway closet behind sayoko - nothing becomes of it because it is actually everything. we want to know what's behind the curtain, to see evil. sayoko's daughter should be running through that hallway, but she isn't. sayako's purpose is behind her now, somewhere else, never to be seen again.
serpent's path is about sight.

we have the culmination of k.k.'s major works in this image. sayoko in the glow of the laptop - out of focus and dead, an apparition - the hallway to her Closet the only thing left.

do you get it?

no

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just some notes/quotes i took during this watch:

"yep. its intent then says he was stunned after."

"mamiya? that's fine. mamiya can be my name. it probably is."

"me? I just did nothing all day long."

• fumie only leaves the house to see the doctor, otherwise eternal sickness of domesticity. the dryer. goes outside immediately gets lost. alien world. still finds herself at hospital, the only place for her.

"all I want is to find words to explain the crimes."

• always the train lights. city itself is a hypnotic suggestion. infrastructural psychosis.

• takabe's outbursts protect him. most vulnerable ones stay bottled up.

"oh, so society's to blame?"

takabe nearly makes it all the way through. too drained. the rain. his sickness (cure) matures, forms pulsing glistening storm constellation and moves outside him, into the world. shining pinpoints of pain.

" now? do you everything? you do? this is the end for you, too."

"a missionary, sent to propagate the ceremony"

"all right, i'll ask you again. fujiwara-of-headquarters, who are you?" there is only work.

goals, that's what you call them?

a man wants to tell a story about his crazy and dream filled youth and instantly forgets what the story possibly could have been.

as unique as it gets. sublime last 20 odd minutes. horrifying, hilarious, massively empathetic. there's nobody like k.k.

probably a 4.5 over time

they're escaping tokyo

there's movies on this list

1. The Beast
2. Red Rooms
3. La Chimera
4. Dune: Part Two
5. Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
6. Chime
7. Challengers
8. The Brutalist
9. The Zone of Interest
10. Perfect Days

...plus 23 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.