Just made a playlist for an hour of leisure walk, the kind of playlist one can only make on a cloudy Sunday afternoon.

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A feat I never take for granted.

Mengolah kembali kata-kata lama, yang ternyata masih terasa. Writing like this, it’s been a while.

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That was a very long and challenging January.

This year, I watched more than 750 feature length films, and more than 650 short films. How to choose a few favourites among those? I choose the ones that are close to my heart the most, the ones I still remember fondly months after the first viewings, and the ones I cannot stop recommending them.

Decided to watch different kind of Christmas-themed films today, all found on the Criterion Channel:

• Mon Oncle Antoine (1971)
• Baba Amin* (1950)
• Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (1983)

*not exactly a Christmas film, but the plot borrows heavily from It’s a Wonderful Life.

This is the year when all Best Picture winners of the trifecta of major European film festivals (Berlinale, Cannes, Venice) got me, “Huh?”

They are good films, saw them all, but given the stack of their competitors, my personal preferences go to other films.

This impossible quest of wanting to read more books every year keeps fueling my desire to consistently find random books to read, only to discover some common threads of my favourite first-time reads. These are some books I love the most this year.

60 Free Film Noir Movies

The beauty of filmgoing experience to me is, among many, to be able to say “I appreciate the effort of making the film, you can see on screen the magnificent shots, the discipline in the production. But the overall result does not speak to me. It’s a good film, I jus don’t like it.”

Sunday in Tallinn.
Here for the Tallinn Black Night Film Festival. The selection, as always, is vast and encompasses almost all genres from big fests of the previous months. The actual films, particularly in the competitive programs, continue to surprise me, both in good and bad ways.

Decided to get the latest iPad mini, and … my oh my! What a perfect device to read graphic novels, for sure. Any quick recommendations?

Let’s see.
I post in English, tapi kadang-kadang ngedumel pakai bahasa Indonesia juga.

Just signed up for Blue Sky (BlueSky?) on a Sunday morning. I can only think of Nat "King" Cole's That Sunday, That Summer song to mark the occasion, although it's not summer here.