Aneela انیلہ 🇵🇸🍁
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melodrama, noir and south asian cinema enjoyer • avid book reader • pakistani brit • free kashmir • she/her 💫
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Really taken with how gorgeous Everyman’s Library Editions are. Solid binding, silk ribbon markers, beautiful jacket art. The paper quality is so smooth, making it a pleasure to touch and hold.
November 25, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Really taken with how gorgeous Everyman’s Library Editions are. Solid binding, silk ribbon markers, beautiful jacket art. The paper quality is so smooth, making it a pleasure to touch and hold.
Noticed it’s leaving iPlayer in a few days so now rewatching:
November 22, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Noticed it’s leaving iPlayer in a few days so now rewatching:
He’s so so sooo good in A Better Tomorrow III as well. This entire scene lives in my head rent free
November 22, 2025 at 4:24 PM
He’s so so sooo good in A Better Tomorrow III as well. This entire scene lives in my head rent free
Lucasta Miller on the cultural baggage that moulds preconceptions of Wuthering Heights and the impact that can have on first time reading experiences (from the preface of the Penguin Classics edition)
November 19, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Lucasta Miller on the cultural baggage that moulds preconceptions of Wuthering Heights and the impact that can have on first time reading experiences (from the preface of the Penguin Classics edition)
Got around to a Hindi crime classic, a classic noir that I found hugely disappointing and one good and one really good film w/ Tatsuya Nakadai. I was binging his films a few years back and it was both a) hugely rewarding and b) cemented him as my favourite actor ever so it was nice to return to that
November 14, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Got around to a Hindi crime classic, a classic noir that I found hugely disappointing and one good and one really good film w/ Tatsuya Nakadai. I was binging his films a few years back and it was both a) hugely rewarding and b) cemented him as my favourite actor ever so it was nice to return to that
Millions must watch Immortal Love (1961)
November 12, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Millions must watch Immortal Love (1961)
game and she can’t resist his charms. Wild finale. Looks stunning.
November 12, 2025 at 6:36 PM
game and she can’t resist his charms. Wild finale. Looks stunning.
Nakadai in The Sword of Doom is an all timer performance. Ryunosuke is a black void of amorality and ruthlessness. Fascinating character in a very interesting and perplexing film.
November 11, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Nakadai in The Sword of Doom is an all timer performance. Ryunosuke is a black void of amorality and ruthlessness. Fascinating character in a very interesting and perplexing film.
This is such a great Letterboxd feature. I knew that Nakadai and Naruse had collaborated several times (I’ve only seen When a Women Ascends the Stairs) and I wanted to check what these films are. Inputting the search query like so brings up all the films they worked on together.
November 11, 2025 at 11:23 AM
This is such a great Letterboxd feature. I knew that Nakadai and Naruse had collaborated several times (I’ve only seen When a Women Ascends the Stairs) and I wanted to check what these films are. Inputting the search query like so brings up all the films they worked on together.
This really hurts. One of the greatest performers to ever grace the screen. The range of his talent and the richness of his filmography was staggering. As Kaji in The Human Condition he was sublime.
November 11, 2025 at 7:53 AM
This really hurts. One of the greatest performers to ever grace the screen. The range of his talent and the richness of his filmography was staggering. As Kaji in The Human Condition he was sublime.
Moody Asian noiresque films, I love you
November 6, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Moody Asian noiresque films, I love you
The Mann influence and the Miami Vice vibes go crazy
November 2, 2025 at 4:14 PM
The Mann influence and the Miami Vice vibes go crazy
Awarapan (Mohit Suri, 2007)
November 2, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Awarapan (Mohit Suri, 2007)
like a desi Colin Farrell (circa Miami Vice ‘06, which is pretty interesting as that film was only released a year before). Lowkey think this is better than the original, it’s much more concerned with ideas of redemption and spirituality, whereas the SK one was more action focused. #noirvember
November 2, 2025 at 4:36 AM
like a desi Colin Farrell (circa Miami Vice ‘06, which is pretty interesting as that film was only released a year before). Lowkey think this is better than the original, it’s much more concerned with ideas of redemption and spirituality, whereas the SK one was more action focused. #noirvember
Discovered there’s an Indian remake of the famous South Korean neo-noir A Bittersweet Life???
November 2, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Discovered there’s an Indian remake of the famous South Korean neo-noir A Bittersweet Life???
“The literature which condescends to express the most tender concern over the Muslim woman is the literature in which she is the limp shimmering object of a fetishizing male gaze and absented, if
not killed outright.” Not much has changed in that respect, clearly!
not killed outright.” Not much has changed in that respect, clearly!
October 29, 2025 at 5:23 PM
“The literature which condescends to express the most tender concern over the Muslim woman is the literature in which she is the limp shimmering object of a fetishizing male gaze and absented, if
not killed outright.” Not much has changed in that respect, clearly!
not killed outright.” Not much has changed in that respect, clearly!
What I’m reading at the moment. 💙📚
October 29, 2025 at 5:17 PM
What I’m reading at the moment. 💙📚
indo-aryans truthnuke 🗣️
October 29, 2025 at 3:40 PM
indo-aryans truthnuke 🗣️
Pretty funny this is the top comment on a movie clip with James Mason because he did not have the old Hollywood transatlantic accent! He was British! That was just his standard accent.
October 27, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Pretty funny this is the top comment on a movie clip with James Mason because he did not have the old Hollywood transatlantic accent! He was British! That was just his standard accent.