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November (2017)
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★ 7.1 12 ratings
雷纳·萨尔奈特 actor: 蕾雅·莱斯特 / 乔根·里克 …
other title: 魔鬼时光 / 十一月 …
2017 film directed by Rainer Sarnet
Watched
Oct. 3, 2026
A stunning, folkloric fairytale of a film from Estonia that is equal parts heart-filling and heart-breaking. There's a fair amount of humor sprinkled throughout this sad tale of loves unrequited and lost, and who doesn't love a witch and a werewolf, plagues and the devil, ghosts and anthropomorphic farm tools?

I loved this movie and can't wait to watch it again, and soon.
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Oct. 3, 2026 Review Initial Review - a review of November
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Midwinter Sacrifice (1946)
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Gösta Werner actor: 甘纳尔·布耶恩施特兰德 / Henrik Schildt …
other title: Midvinterblot / Winternachtswende
A mythic depiction of a pagan sacrifice in prehistoric Sweden.
Watched
Oct. 1, 2026
Beautiful images (thanks to beautifully lit, stark black & white) make up this short about the pagan ritual of sacrificing a man to bring an end to wintertime in Sweden.

I say good luck to all involved.
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Oct. 1, 2026 Review Initial Review - a review of Midwinter Sacrifice
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Journey Through Setomaa (1913)
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Johannes Pääsuke
other title: Retk läbi Setumaa
Estonia's first ethnographic film. Made by Johannes Pääsuke in 1913 on his expedition to Setomaa, the South-Eastern region in Estonia.
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There Will Be Blood (2007)
There Will Be Blood
★ 8.5 483 ratings
保罗·托马斯·安德森 actor: 丹尼尔·戴-刘易斯 / 巴里·德尔·舍曼 …
other title: 血色将至 / 黑金企业(台) …
Ruthless silver miner, turned oil prospector, Daniel Plainview, moves to oil-rich California. Using his son to project a trustworthy, family-man image, Plainview cons local landowners into selling him their valuable properties for a pittance. However, local preacher Eli Sunday suspects Plainview's motives and intentions, starting a slow-burning feud that threatens both their lives.
Watched
Sept. 28, 2026
Been meaning to revisit this one for a while now.

Honestly pretty cool that Dillon Freasier (child HW) was like "I'll never top this" and stopped acting - he's so good here!

Danny Day and Pauly D are also pretty good here.

The whole movie...it's pretty good!

(Neat to watch this after Robert Altman's Short Cuts> (1993) and see the dedication at the end of the credits.)
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Short Cuts (1993)
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★ 8.2 93 ratings
罗伯特·奥特曼 actor: 安迪·麦克道威尔 / 布鲁斯·戴维森 …
other title: 银色·性·男女 / 人生交叉点 …
1993 film by Robert Altman
Watched
Sept. 28, 2026
I'd seen this only once before, a long time ago, after seeing Magnolia (1999) for the first time and thinking "Okay, I see where Paul may have taken...inspiration..." It was crazy to see how much of this I remembered and how I'd thought about some of these moments a lot over the years without realizing it.

And now, having watched so much Altman over the past 12 months, it was nice to come back to it. So much happens and so little happens at the same time, and it's just really great to be a fly on the wall (😉) to see all these characters live through 48 hours of their lives and how they all intersect and how, no matter what happens, things just keep on keeping on.

A real treat.
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Sept. 28, 2026 Review A Review - a review of Short Cuts
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Dibbuk (2019)
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Dayan D. Oualid actor: Ben Aboulker / Marc Allal …
Dan, un homme pieux qui évolue en marge de sa communauté, la communauté juive du XIXe arrondissement de Paris, est convoqué par Sarah pour ausculter son mari Eli, visiblement pas dans son état normal. Dan réunit alors un minian, un office de dix personnes de confession israélite, afin de performer un exorcisme selon un rite précis et éreintant.
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Swimming to Cambodia (1987)
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Jonathan Demme actor: Spalding Gray
other title: 游到柬埔寨 / 遊到柬埔寨 …
1987 film by Jonathan Demme
Watched
Sept. 16, 2026
For 85 minutes, Spalding Gray fleeces a yarn about his time spent filming The Killing Fields (1984) in Cambodia and gives a brief history lesson about the area as well. And for 85 minutes, I'm enthralled.

Jonathan Demme directs this with as much love and care as he did Stop Making Sense a few years earlier, even though this is simply Spalding sitting at a desk on a stage.

Glad to own it!
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Sept. 16, 2026 Review Initial Review - a review of Swimming to Cambodia
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Handgun (1983)
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Tony Garnett actor: Karen Young / Clayton Day …
other title: 深入我心 / Deep in the Heart …
Shortly after moving to Dallas, a young woman is raped at gunpoint. Her intense anger drives her to seek revenge, and she becomes a hunter on a vengeance mission.
Watched
Sept. 10, 2026
Karen Young and Clayton Day are both terrific in their roles. Also, the attack scene is as tastefully handled as it could be and lost none of the tension; I was practically holding my breath the whole time. Well done!
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Sept. 10, 2026 Review Initial Review - a review of Handgun
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Demon (2015)
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★ 6.5 6 ratings
马辛·弗罗纳 actor: 卡翠娜·赫尔曼 / 伊泰·提伦 …
other title: 邪魔 / 新郎着了魔(港) …
2015 film by Marcin Wrona
Watched
Sept. 3, 2026
Sometimes the real horror is the collective generational trauma of a group of people, but it's also probably mostly being possessed by the spirit of the dead bride you just found on your newly inherited property just before getting married on its grounds.

A really great movie I look forward to having many rewatches with.
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Sept. 3, 2026 Review Initial Review - a review of Demon
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The Ninth Heart (1979)
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尤拉伊·赫兹 actor: 奥德·帕夫尔卡 / Anna Malová …
other title: 第九心脏 / Deváté srdce …
Martin, a poor student, volunteers to go on a quest to find a cure for the princess Adriana, who is stricken with a strange illness. Unknown to Martin or anyone else, the princess is actually under the spell of the powerful magician Andlobrandini, who is preparing a rejuvenating elixir made from the blood of nine men's hearts.
Watched
Aug. 18, 2026
The beauty of this film is that it looks and feels like a child dreaming up a fairy tale and then explaining it to an adult. It's a very lush word and I mostly enjoyed it.

The biggest issue for me might be that, not unlike the first time I watched Born of Fire (1987), I was actually pretty tired and fairly comfy and the movie is a little slower and so I could feel myself dozing off to a dreamland of my own.

A rewatch in a more awakened state is in order.
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Aug. 19, 2026 Review Initial Review - a review of The Ninth Heart
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American Psycho (2000)
American Psycho
★ 7.8 641 ratings
Mary Harron actor: Christian Bale / Justin Theroux …
other title: 美国精神病人 / 美色杀人狂 …
A wealthy New York investment banking executive hides his alternate psychopathic ego from his co-workers and friends as he escalates deeper into his illogical, gratuitous fantasies.
Watched
Aug. 8, 2026
Among other things this movie does incredibly well, this is probably very much what just completely losing it is like, and Bale plays it wonderfully.

And props to everyone, really, for filling the movie with great performances.

It's been at least 15 years since I've seen this, and I'd say it holds up nicely!
Jesse Blu-Ray Got It From The Library
Aug. 8, 2026 Review A Review - a review of American Psycho
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Suzzanna: The Queen of Black Magic (2024)
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David Gregory actor: Suzzanna / Joko Anwar …
other title: 苏珊娜：降头女王
A documentary about Suzzanna, "the Queen of Indonesian horror" - an actress who starred in many of the country's most iconic and beloved horror pictures.
Watched
July 20, 2026
A well done doc that's 70% about Suzzanna, famed actress of many an Indonesian film (including Sundel Bolong), 15% about Indonesia proper and 15% about its film industry.

I think the 30% not about Suzzanna was actually quite informative and I really appreciate its inclusion.

And it turns out that Suzzanna had quite a life, so that was great to learn about as well.
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July 20, 2026 Review Initial Review - a review of Suzzanna: The Queen of Black Magic
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White Song (2006)
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Katrina Irawati Graham
The most famous of Indonesian ghosts, the Kuntil Anak, tells the story of Raesita, the batik artist, whose heavy grief after the death of her husband draws the ghost to her. They seduce each other into a deadly dream world. Raesita's own desire for oblivion moulds perfectly to the Kuntil Anak's desire to save her from the pain of life. But it is Raesita's unborn child, and its desire to live, that the Kuntil Anak has not counted upon.
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Sundel Bolong (1981)
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Sisworo Gautama Putra actor: Suzzanna / Rudy Salam …
other title: 黑发幽灵
1981 film by Sisworo Gautama Putra
Watched
July 17, 2026
This movie is a bit of a mess. There's melodrama, there's a shape-shifting ghost (the titular Sundel Bolong) involved with the main rape-revenge plot, there's light police work being performed to bring the bad guys to justice while said bad guys attempt to exorcise a grave to prevent the remaining jerks from being killed off. There are a lot of cool moments, but everything is handled with all the seriousness required to create an episode of Scooby-Doo, and I never found myself sure of what I should be feeling.
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Nang Nak (2000)
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★ 5.9 9 ratings
朗斯·尼美毕达 actor: 因泰拉·贾龙珀拉 / Winai Kraibutr …
other title: 鬼妻 / นางนาก …
In a rural village in Thailand, Mak is sent to fight in a war and leaves his pregnant wife, Nak. Mak is injured and barely survives. He returns home to his doting wife and child, or so he thinks.
Watched
July 3, 2026
I wish I liked this one more. The premise is sound and there's some really great cinematography (and a few shots that aren't so hot), but I found myself bored throughout most of it.
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The Forgiven Sinner (1961)
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★ 8.1 53 ratings
让-皮埃尔·梅尔维尔 actor: 让-保罗·贝尔蒙多 / 埃玛妞·丽娃 …
other title: 莱昂莫汉神父 / Léon Morin, prêtre …
1961 film by Jean-Pierre Melville
Watched
July 2, 2026
If the story of a year in the life of a French communist atheist mother just trying to get by as she also starts to fall for a young communist priest the more that they banter about books and religion during wartime doesn't make you feel something, then I guess you're just not into that sort of thing and I feel bad for you.
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