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Tales of Love and Death by Robert Aickman

📚 Mild spoilers that won’t stick in your memory.

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“Kurtág 100!”: Kurtág, Bartók, Bach, Kodály by Art Ensemble NRW

🎵 Chamber music flourishes in small spaces.

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Three Days of the Condor by Sidney Pollack

🎬 Among Baudrillard’s “movies of the real.”

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Sub Rosa by Robert Aickman

📚 Again, mild spoilers that you will soon forget.

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Schlingensiepen by notabu.ensemble neue musik

🎵 Rarely have so many members of the ensemble performed at a single concert.

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Jules et Jim by François Truffaut

🎬 Sadly, I missed Les quatre cents coups the other day.

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L’Année dernière à Marienbad by Alain Resnais

🎬 Its mesmerizing quality fully restored.

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Dark Entries and Powers of Darkness by Robert Aickman

📚 Mild spoilers you will have forgotten by the time you pick these stories up.

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Deadlock by Roland Klick

🎬 A cult classic, apparently, I’ve never come across until now.

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King Kong by John Guillermin

🎬 Not the best score Barry’s ever written.

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The Beast & the Sovereign: “First Session December 12, 2001” by Jacques Derrida

📚 I miss all this so much.

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Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair by Quentin Tarantino

🎬 Me, too, wouldn’t say no to a Hattori Hanzō sword.

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헤어질 결심 (lit. Resolution to Break Up) by Park Chan-wook

🎬 The mountain and the sea.

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아가씨 (Miss) by Park Chan-wook

🎬 Everything and everybody are outstanding.

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Sicario by Denis Villeneuve

🎬 Incredibly intense.

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The Revenant by Alejandro González Iñárritu

🎬 “Inspired by true events” my ass.

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We Are for the Dark and Dark Entries by Robert Aickman

📚 Structural hints, but not outright spoilers.

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Stoker by Park Chan-wook

🎬 What runs in the family.

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A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night by Ana Lily Amirpour

🎬 Incredible that I missed this gem for twelve years.

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国宝 aka Kokuhō by Lee Sang-il

🎬 Roundly ignored by the Academy Awards.

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Seconds by John Frankenheimer

🎬 Perhaps, after the foreshadowing was left on the cutting room floor, the final shot works even better.

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À bout de souffle aka Breathless by Jean-Luc Godard

🎬 Back when chain-smoking was the rage.

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박쥐 aka Thirst by Park Chan-wook

🎬 You can’t write anything on this one without spoilers.

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싸이보그지만 괜찮아 aka I’m a Cyborg, But That’s Okay by Park Chan-wook

🎬 It has everything, even a happy ending.

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Baise-moi by Virginie Despentes and Coralie Trinh Thi

🎬 Not liked by Nazis.

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The Godfather by Francis Ford Coppola

🎬 Restored glory.

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Nouvelle Vague by Richard Linklater

🎬 A joyful ode to filmmaking.

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친절한 금자씨 (Kind-Hearted Ms. Geum-ja aka Lady Vengeance) by Park Chan-wook

🎬 This trilogy, of course, had to be followed by a comedy.

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Dust Bunny by Bryan Fuller

🎬 Prepare to be entertained.

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올드보이 aka Oldboy by Park Chan-wook

🎬 As haunting as the original Greek myth (if you read it closely).

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W. A. Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte by Barrie Kosky & Suzanne Andrade and Antonio Foglinani

🎵 Entertaining, but not for opera aficionados.

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The Mystery of the Ultimatum Game: Why We Are Predictably Irrational by Kobayashi Kayoko

📚 Excellent primer with an argument and a view.

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The Blob by Chuck Russell

🎬 Aesthetically, the Blob wouldn’t have been conspicuous in the 1980s.

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Uncertain Maps: Group Exhibition at KAI 10 | Arthena Foundation

🖼️ In game design, both pen-&-paper and digital, maps should always be a narrative experience too.

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Zuckmantel, Meyer, Berio, Haußmann by notabu.ensemble neue musik

🎵 The drawback of new pieces in live concerts is you can listen to them only once.

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복수는 나의 것 (Vengeance Is Mine) by Park Chan-wook

🎬 Not for the faint-hearted.

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Cold Hand in Mine: Eight Strange Stories by Robert Aickman

📚 Two out of eight. Also, very English.

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レンタル・ファミリー / Rental Family by HIKARI

🎬 Took me three attempts to watch this movie.

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공동경비구역 JSA aka Joint Security Area by Park Chan-wook

🎬 Plus, Western reviews tend to be quite condescending.

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Ghost Stories of an Antiquary by M. R. James

📚 Predating the Mythos Circle, but already with tentacles!

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Nomadland by Chloé Zhao

🎬 McDormand’s close to inhumanly good.

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One Battle After Another by Paul Thomas Anderson

🎬 If Sinners didn’t exist, this would be my favorite from 2025.

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어쩔수가없다 aka No Other Choice by Park Chan-wook

🎬 Some scenes might upset your stomach.

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Return to Silent Hill by Christophe Gans

🎬 How not to make a horror movie.

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(Almost) Everything by Thomas Ligotti

📚 Beware of masks your face will grow into.

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The Incredible Shrinking Man by Jack Arnold

🎬 All the anxieties of the 1950s rolled into one.

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The Whale by Darren Aronofsky

🎬 Frazer’s been among my favorite actors since forever.

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The Bone Temple by Nia DaCosta

🎬 So far, the best of the bunch.

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Louder Than Bombs by Joachim Trier

🎬 Three cross marks.

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John Wick by Chad Stahelski

🎬 Three check marks.

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The Game Music Toolbox by Marios Aristopoulos & Game Audio Fundamentals by Keith Zizza

📚 Nice releases for basic and advanced game audio, respectively.

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Alessandro De Rosa’s Ennio Morricone: In His Own Words

📚 A thoroughly enchanting conversation.

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Deutschland 1923 by Volker Ullrich

📚 Gripping but not substantial.

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Ready to Go, But Not Yet Publishing

🥂 There will always be something new, including nothing new.

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