There are so many meticulous repeated shots that when a new one appears over two or three hours in it just made me go “holy shit”

As soon as it started I was like oh yeah this is one of my favourite films ever made

Loneliness in the neon city. Lots of what Yang would build on in both Mahjong and Yi Yi, but it all still shines bright here. Excellent.

Stunning.

It was on the syllabus but they didn't show it in class.. rewatched out of spite. Still one of Brakhage's best.

A successor to High School. That film shows the school system's ideology that its students are just 'bodies', and this film shows where those bodies are headed. Brutal.

America fucks you till you die. Whole cast is amazing but Nicholson is electrifying.

Few films I've seen have been able to portray that very distinct feeling of being somewhere you're not supposed to as well as this.

Respect, shame, sex and youth in the shadow of Vietnam. Wiseman almost fully formed already by his second feature.

Beyond words.

Probably the best choreography I’ve seen, every fight is so unique and creative. Gordon Liu is so cool. 

Fascinating to watch this back to back with King Hu’s Raining in the Mountain, released in the same year, but so vastly different.

King Hu pretty much mastered the craft of filmmaking. So ideologically and religiously interesting and complex, so tantalising in its combination of heist and wuxia. Every shot in this will leave your mouth agape.