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Favorite first watches of 2025, a (more organized) 🧵:
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Nisemonogatari Episode 1
Sure!
Sure!
November 26, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Nisemonogatari Episode 1
Sure!
Sure!
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I've also always loved the paintings in Argento's Deep Red aka Profondo Rosso that were done by Enrico Colombotto Rosso, whose work is phenomenal (maybe I will post some favorites later)
Wish it was known where these paintings are now!!
Wish it was known where these paintings are now!!
February 4, 2025 at 6:40 PM
I've also always loved the paintings in Argento's Deep Red aka Profondo Rosso that were done by Enrico Colombotto Rosso, whose work is phenomenal (maybe I will post some favorites later)
Wish it was known where these paintings are now!!
Wish it was known where these paintings are now!!
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A sweaty, haunted Josh Hartnett plays a private detective hired to search Hong Kong for a guy who might literally be the second coming of Christ, complicated by the fact that Hartnett's character got HANNIBALed by a serial killer who turns his victims into grotesque Francis Bacon sculptures.
November 26, 2025 at 2:29 AM
A sweaty, haunted Josh Hartnett plays a private detective hired to search Hong Kong for a guy who might literally be the second coming of Christ, complicated by the fact that Hartnett's character got HANNIBALed by a serial killer who turns his victims into grotesque Francis Bacon sculptures.
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"In an age where queerness in cinema is a bit more accepted, Kier’s proud embrace of his queerness as outsiderness, whether as a mad scientist, a lonely hustler, or even a vampire, makes him feel like a pioneer."
For @ebertvoices.bsky.social I paid tribute to Udo:
www.rogerebert.com/tributes/swa...
For @ebertvoices.bsky.social I paid tribute to Udo:
www.rogerebert.com/tributes/swa...
Swan Song: Udo Kier (1944-2025) | Tributes | Roger Ebert
A tribute to the prolific character actor, who played vampires and Nazis and outcasts until the age of 81.
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November 25, 2025 at 4:34 PM
"In an age where queerness in cinema is a bit more accepted, Kier’s proud embrace of his queerness as outsiderness, whether as a mad scientist, a lonely hustler, or even a vampire, makes him feel like a pioneer."
For @ebertvoices.bsky.social I paid tribute to Udo:
www.rogerebert.com/tributes/swa...
For @ebertvoices.bsky.social I paid tribute to Udo:
www.rogerebert.com/tributes/swa...
IT’S JUST SUCH A GOOD LOOKING SHOOOOOOOWW
November 26, 2025 at 2:12 AM
IT’S JUST SUCH A GOOD LOOKING SHOOOOOOOWW
Sailor Moon - The Shining Silver Crystal: The Moon Princess Appears (1992) /// Revolutionary Girl Utena - And Someday, Together, We'll Shine (1997)
November 26, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Sailor Moon - The Shining Silver Crystal: The Moon Princess Appears (1992) /// Revolutionary Girl Utena - And Someday, Together, We'll Shine (1997)
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I’m watching Kitano’s A Scene at the Sea (1991), and it’s pretty amazing how aggressively I’ve been converted to thinking him the better creative collaborator with Joe Hisaishi than Miyazaki?
August 11, 2025 at 10:58 PM
I’m watching Kitano’s A Scene at the Sea (1991), and it’s pretty amazing how aggressively I’ve been converted to thinking him the better creative collaborator with Joe Hisaishi than Miyazaki?
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Soft and unspoken (quite literally) to the point of abstraction. Kitano and Hisaishi synchronized immediately and perfectly; this is an unmatched harmony between the visual and the aural, the gentle storytelling an extension of the gorgeous music’s rythym and vice versa. Joe dominates this.
August 12, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Soft and unspoken (quite literally) to the point of abstraction. Kitano and Hisaishi synchronized immediately and perfectly; this is an unmatched harmony between the visual and the aural, the gentle storytelling an extension of the gorgeous music’s rythym and vice versa. Joe dominates this.
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Still life sensibility in slice o’ mundane eternity, the two beautiful leads quietly tenderly leading the peanut gallery of voyeurs and knuckleheads through their day-to-day whims and self-discoveries. Gorgeous physical acting from Claude Maki and Hiroko Oshima.
The ending montage is life-ruining.
The ending montage is life-ruining.
August 12, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Still life sensibility in slice o’ mundane eternity, the two beautiful leads quietly tenderly leading the peanut gallery of voyeurs and knuckleheads through their day-to-day whims and self-discoveries. Gorgeous physical acting from Claude Maki and Hiroko Oshima.
The ending montage is life-ruining.
The ending montage is life-ruining.
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Tokuzō Tanaka’s The Whale God is fucking incredible. A family of vengeful Ahabs, spurred on by whole villages of Ahabs, fall one-by-one in the tumultuous wake of a beast too brutal to be divine, too wrathful to be natural. Pitch back contrast, stark as hell filmmaking, near-naked men clamoring.
April 23, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Tokuzō Tanaka’s The Whale God is fucking incredible. A family of vengeful Ahabs, spurred on by whole villages of Ahabs, fall one-by-one in the tumultuous wake of a beast too brutal to be divine, too wrathful to be natural. Pitch back contrast, stark as hell filmmaking, near-naked men clamoring.
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Tanaka’s gritted black-and-white and Toru Matoba’s impressive special effects play to the grammar that Toho was leaving behind; this movie is rich with the language of Godzilla’s Odo Island and Varan’s demonic mythology. Pure horror, bordering Armageddon, as grief-stricken communities collapse.
April 23, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Tanaka’s gritted black-and-white and Toru Matoba’s impressive special effects play to the grammar that Toho was leaving behind; this movie is rich with the language of Godzilla’s Odo Island and Varan’s demonic mythology. Pure horror, bordering Armageddon, as grief-stricken communities collapse.
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Fascinatingly thorny here and there; a clear darkness and fear directed towards the rural, safety and sanity promised by the faraway cities, while the mortifying experiences of women in this war engine of whale oil cast in hideous light. Christianity pulses, ugly and invasive, within the heart.
April 23, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Fascinatingly thorny here and there; a clear darkness and fear directed towards the rural, safety and sanity promised by the faraway cities, while the mortifying experiences of women in this war engine of whale oil cast in hideous light. Christianity pulses, ugly and invasive, within the heart.
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SO. FUCKING. GOOD. 😭
A rough-handed young girl, all horseplay and silent tantrums, grows up too soon as her idyllic childhood home crumples in the wake of her parents’ (SO human, SO flawed) bitter divorce. A deep empathetic understanding of children and a masterful harmony of laughter and tears.
A rough-handed young girl, all horseplay and silent tantrums, grows up too soon as her idyllic childhood home crumples in the wake of her parents’ (SO human, SO flawed) bitter divorce. A deep empathetic understanding of children and a masterful harmony of laughter and tears.
June 18, 2025 at 1:26 AM
SO. FUCKING. GOOD. 😭
A rough-handed young girl, all horseplay and silent tantrums, grows up too soon as her idyllic childhood home crumples in the wake of her parents’ (SO human, SO flawed) bitter divorce. A deep empathetic understanding of children and a masterful harmony of laughter and tears.
A rough-handed young girl, all horseplay and silent tantrums, grows up too soon as her idyllic childhood home crumples in the wake of her parents’ (SO human, SO flawed) bitter divorce. A deep empathetic understanding of children and a masterful harmony of laughter and tears.
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Sōmai’s picture-perfect senses shoot the hell out of the steadily angular 90s, the rain soaked streets and smoky festivals tangible with comedy, melancholy, sharp bouts of breath-catching trauma. The final hour slowly lulls you into a pure dreamcraft disassociation. All-timer stuff, open to close.
June 18, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Sōmai’s picture-perfect senses shoot the hell out of the steadily angular 90s, the rain soaked streets and smoky festivals tangible with comedy, melancholy, sharp bouts of breath-catching trauma. The final hour slowly lulls you into a pure dreamcraft disassociation. All-timer stuff, open to close.
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Expanding Kwaidan’s impressionist soundstage into a far larger period production and stretching the folktale into a supernatural, and tearfully humane, tragedy. Shiho Fujimara was absolutely incredible, commanding an adaption that turns the titular ghost into the POV heart and soul. A perfect movie.
June 20, 2025 at 3:02 AM
Expanding Kwaidan’s impressionist soundstage into a far larger period production and stretching the folktale into a supernatural, and tearfully humane, tragedy. Shiho Fujimara was absolutely incredible, commanding an adaption that turns the titular ghost into the POV heart and soul. A perfect movie.
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Sōmai could spin such noxious and corrosive humanism, people truly at their messiest and most ordinarily virulent, with such an air of clemency. An initial lull of seaside routine and earthly family drama, sculpted in subtly rich long takes, spikes in a gory display of ineptitude and selfishness.
July 1, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Sōmai could spin such noxious and corrosive humanism, people truly at their messiest and most ordinarily virulent, with such an air of clemency. An initial lull of seaside routine and earthly family drama, sculpted in subtly rich long takes, spikes in a gory display of ineptitude and selfishness.
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A shockingly mean movie (if not necessarily a cruel one). Shinji turns an idyllic fishing village and its romanticized labor into a breeding ground for toxic masculinity and cycles of abuse at its most tangibly normalized. So easy to see where so much of Japan’s cinematic modernity comes from?
July 1, 2025 at 3:17 AM
A shockingly mean movie (if not necessarily a cruel one). Shinji turns an idyllic fishing village and its romanticized labor into a breeding ground for toxic masculinity and cycles of abuse at its most tangibly normalized. So easy to see where so much of Japan’s cinematic modernity comes from?
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Like some of the other wuxia wireflights jammed into Brigitte Lin’s relay race to retirement, Fire Dragon (1994) pales in comparison to the Swordsman trilogy but still holds its own as a wildfire justification to the sorcery of the moving image, dark magic insanity. Absolutely fucking breathless
October 14, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Like some of the other wuxia wireflights jammed into Brigitte Lin’s relay race to retirement, Fire Dragon (1994) pales in comparison to the Swordsman trilogy but still holds its own as a wildfire justification to the sorcery of the moving image, dark magic insanity. Absolutely fucking breathless
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With choreography so swift it slips between frames and violent pyrotechnics that HAVE to have been a maelstrom of near-disaster stunts we probably don’t want to think too deeply about, it’s hard to argue against this as some of the best of Hong Kong’s fantasy fight and flight. Pure overstimulation.
October 14, 2025 at 12:58 AM
With choreography so swift it slips between frames and violent pyrotechnics that HAVE to have been a maelstrom of near-disaster stunts we probably don’t want to think too deeply about, it’s hard to argue against this as some of the best of Hong Kong’s fantasy fight and flight. Pure overstimulation.
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Brigitte is God herself, as always, one of our best and brightest. And even outside of the (fucking terrifying) fire trickery, the fighting and staging is smart as hell and as golden (and crazy!) as you could possibly want. Just terrific stuff from director Yuen Woo-ping. I hope everyone was okay 😂
October 14, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Brigitte is God herself, as always, one of our best and brightest. And even outside of the (fucking terrifying) fire trickery, the fighting and staging is smart as hell and as golden (and crazy!) as you could possibly want. Just terrific stuff from director Yuen Woo-ping. I hope everyone was okay 😂
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Man is the warmest place to hide, Charlie Brown
Every dead body that is not exterminated gets up and KILLS. The people it kills GET UP AND KILL, Charlie Brown.
November 25, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Man is the warmest place to hide, Charlie Brown
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one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
November 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
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