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About Me

RATING KEY:
1 = @#$%& [ and more obscenities ]
2 = =) | =/ [ slightly entertaining but ehhh ]
3= =D [ liked it and/or acknowledge its mediocrity ]
4= <3 [ loveeeeeeed it ; might slightly be missing something ]
5 = !!!!!!!!!! [ my soul ; inspiration ; love and life embodied ]

FAVORITE MOVIES:
Sabrina – (1954) – Billy Wilder
Now Voyager – (1942) – Irving Rapper
The Heiress – (1949) – William Wyler
3-Iron – (2004) – Kim Ki-duk
All About Eve – (1950) – Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham… - (2001) – Karan Johar
Whisper Of The Heart - (1995)- Yoshifumi Kondō
The Pianist- (2002) – Roman Polanski
Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind- (2004) – Michel Gondry
Paprika – (2006) – Satoshi Kon

FAVORITE TV SHOWS:
All In The Family – 1971 – 1979
I Love Lucy – 1951 – 1957
Hey Arnold! 1996 – 2004
Golden Girls – 1985 – 1992

FAVORITE BOOKS:
Of Human Bondage – W. Somerset Maugham
Cakes and Ale – W. Somerset Maugham
Moon and Sixpence – W. Somerset Maugham
Notes From The Underground – Fyodor Dostoyvesky
White Nights – Fyodor Dostoyvesky
The Idiot – Fyodor Dostovesky
The House Of The Seven Gables – Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde
Self Reliance – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Harry Potter – J.K Rowling

LAST FM | DRAMA LIST | ANIME LIST | TUMBLR

my profile is bare, i know. i usually don’t know where to start when watching movies as i remain in comfortable niches but i’m gradually progressing. right now, i’m heavily into the golden age of cinema, sixties and nineties bollywood, select animated features, and contemporary movies that strive to be more than skeletons of archetypes experienced before. i’m trying to get into more obscure films, european, korean and japanese cinema, and even more bollywood. there’s a beautiful momentum, energy, and atmosphere within the framework and essence of cinema. i want to bask in it as an audience and harness it as an aspiring filmmaker and show the mental, emotional, physical and spiritual spectrum of ourselves and this world.

NOTE: i don’t care if a movie is critically acclaimed or not. if i didn’t enjoy it or had a lackluster experience, i am going to rate it one or two stars. also, i don’t care if a movie isn’t what you consider artistic or “cinematically” sensible, if i like it, i won’t hesitate to give it a lot of stars. what i’m saying is you might see some movies here that you would rate with five that i would only rate with two and some movies that you would two that i would rate five. don’t be surprised i’m not some cookie-cutter cinephile and that i’m unapologetic about it. i love a good conversation about films but i won’t justify my taste to you.

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The Iron Giant

i thought the cold-war era undertone was so clever. definitely emotive but w/o any moralizing or any cheap tears. when you react to the movie, it's from your soul and that's why it's hard to explain why it's not corny or a ripoff of every story of an unlikely hero. if you watch anything of brad bird's, you'll realize he has a very genuine approach to films and that he balances intelligent design with sensitivity.

Style

  • Melancholy
  • Zip, whiz, and energetic!
  • Serene & subtle
  • Wildly romantic
  • Fashionable alienation
  • Deliriously surreal
  • Canonical classics
  • Of-the-past
  • Neorealist
  • Avant-garde

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DADA WEATHERMAN

19Oct12

Very cool About Me section. Oh and, go Emerson.

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© <',))( Astro-Tofupraxographer

17Sep12

If you're referring to Polyglot as "her", you're in for a surprise, he's a dude. <',)))( But anyway, nice to meet you here, and here's to you discovering more on this site.

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© <',))( Astro-Tofupraxographer

16Sep12

Hello Bushra, thank you very much, I don't really give that much thought to my reviews, but I'm glad you appreciate them. Well, for one thing, you have an awesome name, that alone is worth the follow. And anyone who's cool with my ol' pal, Shake, I mean, Polyglot is cool with me. <',)))(

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Polyglot

15Sep12

Did you once follow me? If so, sorry for not getting back to you.

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