This will be a continuing, if infrequent, log of my journey in recovering from an acute stroke.
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My Twentieth Century (1989)
Enyedi’s dreamlike debut feature has a fabulist tone, though its thematic exploration of political and technological developments in modern human history never comes into full realisation, as the film charts the lives of a pair of orphaned twins who go their separate ways.
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Our Sunhi (2013)
A filmmaking student doesn’t know herself except through the eyes of three men who have had an on-off intimate relationship with her, as Hong gives us a sly film bounded by the circularities and repetitions of plotting and dialogue.
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Musings #8: Milk, Then & Now
Gus Van Sant’s MILK was my first LGBT film. Just three years earlier, in 2005-06, when Lee Ang’s BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN played in Singapore, I was too young to see. But that was the first time I heard about this topic.
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Cocote (2017)
This is a powerful confrontation of the religious irony, corruption and injustice at play in the Dominican Republic, as a devout Evangelical Christian man returning home for his murdered father’s funeral must tolerate paganistic rituals and his family’s call for ‘moral’ revenge.
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M (1931)
Lang’s blueprint for the psychological procedural thriller remains significant in cinema history, as was his influential use of sound, rendering his ghastly subject—a serial killer of children—in poetic, paralegal light.
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Exploring #16: Wong Kar-Wai
‘Exploring’ features the filmographies of filmmakers that I’ve largely completed and celebrates them on the week of their birthdays.
King Boxer (1972)
A great non-Bruce Lee entry point to the kung fu craze of the early ‘70s, this is fundamental viewing for fans of HK martial arts movies as Lo Lieh stars as a young man who becomes embroiled in a hostile school rivalry that turns increasingly brutal.
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Little Princess, A (1995)
Cuaron’s first Hollywood project is shot like a fairy tale, adopting a child’s imaginative perspective, as she must try to find a way to adapt to worsening personal circumstances in a boarding school run by a mean-spirited headmistress.
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Dazed and Confused (1993)
Beers, drugs, hazing rituals, and unchecked rebelliousness mark the last day of high school circa May 1976, Texas, as Linklater expertly drops us in the middle of the chaos, with a killer rock soundtrack to boot.
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