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The Beekeeper

David Ayer’s The Beekeeper

The exact dose of gratuitously violent popcorn entertainment I was looking for.

Tropical

Tropical: Stories from Southeast Asia and Latin America | National Gallery Singapore

If you happen to be in Singapore between now and March 24, 2024, don’t miss this! :)

Shōnan Jinja

Singapore Adventure: Shōnan Jinja

Yes, we crawled through a tropical jungle and back for a destroyed World War II shrine.

La Liseuse

Chaïm Soutine Exhibition | K20

How cool would it be to create a game where you live inside the worlds of these paintings.

Introductory Talk

notabu.ensemble neue musik | DEC 6, 2023

With respect to art music, this year ends as fantastic as it began.

The Name of the Rose

Jean-Jacques Annaud’s The Name of the Rose

The book holds up well, the movie not so much.

Napoleon

Ridley Scott’s Napoleon

Sadly, it left me cold from the first scene to the last.

ゴジラ-1.0 [Gojira Mainasu Wan]

Yamazaki Takashi’s『ゴジラ-1.0』[Gojira Mainasu Wan]

Hands down one of the best movies in Tōhō’s Kaijū franchise.

KAI 10 | Arthena Exhibition

“Bodies, Grids, and Ecstasy” Exhibition at KAI 10 | Arthena Foundation—Verena Issel and Roy Mordechay in Conversation with Ludwig Seyfarth

From grids to layers to memory, so much of it was right up my alley.

Phantasm

Don Coscarelli’s Phantasm

For what the movie wants to be, it’s pretty darn good.

千禧曼波 [Millenium Mambo]

Hou Hsiao-hsien’s Millennium Mambo

Somewhat spoilery, but plot in this incredible movie isn’t the point.

Juilliard String Quartet

The Juilliard String Quartet at Robert-Schumann-Saal, Düsseldorf

Absolute treat for every string quartet aficionado.

Sympathy for the Devil

Yuval Adler’s Sympathy for the Devil

An entertaining two-hander with all the antics you can expect from a Nicolas Cage movie.

Der Besuch der alten Dame

Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s Der Besuch der alten Dame by Laura Linnenbaum

Great mood and acting, but too many compactifications.

Plan 75

Hayakawa Chie’s『PLAN 75』

A movie that’s not easy to digest, but apparently easy to misunderstand.

Universal Soldier

Roland Emmerich’s Universal Soldier

Body Count’s in the House.

Killers of the Flower Moon

Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon

If this isn’t worth an Academy Award, I don’t know what is.

Die Theorie von Allem

Timm Kröger’s Die Theorie von Allem

I like the movie, and I heartily recommend watching it. But be prepared for some crumminess.

Mononoke Hime

Miyazaki Hayao’s もののけ姫 [Mononoke Hime]

With an excursion into conflict types and Greek Tragedy.

The Killer

David Fincher’s The Killer

Extremely stylish, suspenseful, and Fincher-ish.