Joel Goh

Perfect is the enemy of done. Exercises in shipping.

Movies

A non-exhaustive list of movies that I like.

All-time:

  • In the Mood for Love (2000)
  • Children of Men (2006)
  • Harold and Maude (1971)
  • Good Will Hunting (1997)
  • Scent of a Women (1992)
  • Nuovo Cinema Paradiso (1988) – blasphemous to most fans but I prefer the Director’s cut
  • Lost in Translation (2003)
  • Sunshine (2007)
  • Moulin Rouge (2001)
  • Sepet (2005)
  • The Visitor (2007)
  • The Wackness (2008)
  • Boyhood (2014)
  • Star Wars – all 9 movies
  • Minding the Gap (2018)
  • 25th Hour (2002)
  • One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)
  • Dead Poets Society (1989)
  • La La Land (2016)
  • Whiplash (2014)
  • Clerks (1994)
  • Clerks II (2006)
  • Amelie (2001)
  • Mr Nobody (2009)
  • Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017)
  • Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
  • Life of Brian (1979)
  • Dirty Pretty Things (2002)

Recently watched and liked:

  • Everything Everywhere All At Once (2022)
  • Past Lives (2023)
  • Perfect Days (2023)
  • Apocalyse Now (1979) – the Final Cut version
  • Rome: Open City (1945)
  • Monster (Kaibutsu) (2023)
  • A Brighter Summer Day (1991)
  • 28 Years Later (2025)