RIP Tony Rayns. Every cinephile encounters his writing at some point, and it’s shocking how his reviews/blurbs are some of the only meaningful words you can find on countless Asian films. Here’s a clip from Seo Won-tae’s film on Tony where he says he loves 간장게장 (soy crab).
Susan Sontag was an obsessive list-maker, and her diaries in As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh contain vast registers of books to read, words to memorize, and films to watch.
Here are the 50 films (not in order) Susan Sontag championed as the pinnacle of cinema.