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After the Storm 2016
i can't get enough of this man, what understanding of human relationships, always manages to make me hold onto simpler things in life.
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A Christmas Story 1983
Ha my father just tried to put some movie on that wasn't A Christmas Story. I just shut his ass the f**k down. We're on 24hour Christmas Story lock down
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Black Christmas 1974
no matter how many times you've seen it this shit still slaps!!!! drunk margot kidder is the mood + the moment!!!!!!
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Taboo 1999
“Nothing that is expressed is obscene. What is obscene is what is hidden.”
No truer words could be expressed by Nagisa Ôshima regarding his own filmmaking than those and after a 13 year absence from the screen his final film is easily one of his best. Always controversial to say the least, Ôshima used an almost Freudian approach to his style of filmmaking, every action made by the characters could be boiled down to basic animalistic urges and sexual desire;…
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Taboo 1999
The Mizoguchi tributes are apparent even before it flat out references Ugetsu, but this is pure Oshima, that knife-edge balance of the serenely dispassionate and the chaotically sexual. Ryuhei Matsuda is perfect as the blank-eyed cipher whose good looks drive a regiment of samurai to horny ruin, so soft-spoken and passive that you don't quite clock the mounting number of lies and manipulations he tells until it's too late. Oshima shoots the various sparring matches with such patience that it…
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Taboo 1999
Seductive. Sensous. Sombre. What an incredible final film from Oshima. A spiritual sequel to Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence, teasing out it's themes into something more overwhelmingly beautiful and elegiac (elements of In The Realm Of The Senses and the tone of Huston's The Dead). Unearths hidden tensions/passions in the samurai film, culminating in fierce emotional release in an unforgettable final shot. Perfection.
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Autumn Leaves 1956
i would literally drop everything for the opportunity to have joan crawford yell at me and call me a slut
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