Grass Labyrinth
Grass Labyrinth (Kusa Meikyū) is a Japanese film by director Shūji Terayama. Only forty minutes long, it was released in France in 1979...
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Yoyogi Koen Crow
Location: 35°40'11.0"N 139°41'46.3"E After leaving the Laos festival by Yoyogi park's outdoor stage on Sunday, I spotted a crow near the...
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Gaslight (1940)
Gaslight (1940), directed by Thorold Dickinson and starring Austrian actor Anton Walbrook and English actor Diana Wynyard, is the first...
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Gaslight (1944)
Gaslight (1944), directed by George Cukor and starring Ingrid Bergman, Charles Boyer, Joseph Cotten, and a teenage Angela Lansbury, is...
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Norwegian Wood
Norwegian Wood (1987) is a novel by Haruki Murakami. The first-person narrator, Toru Watanabe, takes a long and very detailed look back...
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Exit West
Exit West (2017) is a slim novel by Mohsin Hamid. The book was selected for the 2017 Booker Prize longlist and, for reasons I can't put...
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The Famous Sword Bijomaru
Meito Bijomaru (The Famous Sword Bijomaru) is a 1945 film by director and screenwriter Kenji Mizoguchi. Kiyone Sakurai forges a sword for...
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Dogman
Dogman (2018) from Italian filmmaker Matteo Garrone focuses on a dog groomer named Marcello, played by Marcello Fonte, who won the award...
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This Gun for Hire
After reading Graham Greene’s 1936 novel A Gun for Sale, I watched This Gun for Hire (1942), which is based on the book and stars...
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A Gun for Sale
Graham Greene’s novel A Gun for Sale (1936) (published as This Gun for Hire in the U.S.) falls under the category of “entertainments,” as...
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The Terror
The Terror (2018) is the best TV series I’ve watched in a while. Starring Jared Harris, Ciarán Hinds, Tobias Menzies, and Inuk...
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The Attic
Born in Yugoslavia in 1935, writer Danilo Kiš wrote The Attic (1962) when he was in his mid-twenties. I read it on a whim, knowing...
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Les Cousins
Les Cousins (1959) was directed by Claude Chabrol and belongs to the French New Wave movement which emerged in the 50s. I enjoyed it for...
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The Prowler
This is one of the creepiest films noir I've seen. Webb Garwood (Van Heflin) is a sleazy cop dispatched to have a look around the home of...
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A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain
A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain (1992) is Robert Olen Butler's collection of short stories which received the Pulitzer Prize for...
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Sabrina
Nick Drnaso's Sabrina is a 204-page graphic novel (GN) released by Canadian publisher Drawn and Quarterly in 2018, and is the first GN to...
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78/52
Alexandre O. Philippe's documentary 78/52 (2017) explores the shower scene in Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho (1960) from multiple...
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Cry Danger
Cry Danger (1951) stars Dick Powell and Rhonda Fleming and was Robert Parrish's directing debut, though according to the film's IMDb...
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A Tokyo Romance
A Tokyo Romance (2018) is Ian Buruma's memoir of his six years in Japan. He moved to Tokyo in 1975 when he was 23 and studied cinema at...
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Rashomon
Rashomon. Among the most influential of all films, this 1950 Akira Kurosawa classic is better after the first experience. I first watched...
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