@kenta_films

following a festival lineup from your couch

• 01mark the fest's actual start/end dates, not just the days everyone's posting
• 02check if it has a public streaming arm (Sundance runs one some years, Cannes never has)
• 03follow trade press (Variety, Screen Daily, IndieWire), not just film twitter
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anime for the friend who swears they don't watch anime

• 01Grave of the Fireflies (1988)
• 02In This Corner of the World (2016)
• 035 Centimeters per Second (2007)
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letterboxd rating scale and jargon, explained for normal people

• 01★★★★★ (5 stars)
• 02half stars (the .5s)
• 03Diary
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anime scores that work with zero context

• 01Spirited Away - Joe Hisaishi
• 02Cowboy Bebop: The Movie - Yoko Kanno
• 03A Silent Voice (A Shape of Light) - Kensuke Ushio↗
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tokyo repertory cinema crawl

• 01Ghibli Museum - Saturn Theater (Mitaka)↗
• 02Shimokitazawa Tollywood (Shimokitazawa)
• 03Eurospace (Shibuya)
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things film people say that mean nothing to anyone else

• 01"unlikeable characters were the point"
• 02"this lives rent free"
• 03"I need to sit with this one"
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films where the rewatch tax is worth paying

0 to ghibli fan: the order that actually works

• 01Kiki's Delivery Service↗
• 02My Neighbor Totoro↗
• 03Castle in the Sky
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non-ghibli anime that deserves the same hype

• 01Perfect Blue (dir. Satoshi Kon, 1997)
• 02Paprika (dir. Satoshi Kon, 2006)
• 03Millennium Actress (Satoshi Kon, 2001)
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shows to fill the severance void

pay the rewatch tax

every ghibli movie ranked (rewatchability, not vibes)

• 01Spirited Away
• 02Whisper of the Heart
• 03Porco Rosso
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where the arthouse stuff actually streams, legally

budget home theater, built for rewatching not gaming

• 01BenQ TH575
• 02Sonos Ray
• 03NexiGo PJ40 Pro
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movie night marathons that survive round two

• 01set a runtime budget before you pick anything
• 02pick films that share a mood, not a director or a decade
• 03shortest film goes first, save the slow burn for right after food
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criterion blind buys (graded honestly)

• 01House (1977) - Spine #539↗
• 02In the Mood for Love - Spine #147
• 03The Killer (1989) - Spine #8
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satoshi kon's four films, in order of how much they wrecked me

• 01Paprika (2006)↗
• 02Perfect Blue (1997)↗
• 03Millennium Actress (2001)
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