Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  The Last Days of Disco 1998

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 21 Aug 2023

  My favorite “hangout movie”. Clearly about far more than the final days of one era of New York's nightlife: it's about regret (both in the personal sense and the historical); it's about art, creation, and inspiration; it's about the way a city can function as an organism, with each person playing the role of single cell in that organism. The way everybody dances at the end always makes me teary.

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  The Mother and the Whore 1973

  ★★★★ Watched 01 Jul 2023

  Arrived at the theatre ten minutes late, spent the next 209 minutes thinking Marie was his actual mother 🤮

Popular reviews

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  Miami Blues 1990

  ★★★★★ Watched 06 Feb 2017 1

  "My problem is that I can have... everything and anything that I want but I don't know what I want."

  It's really that simple. Almost like a quirkier Badlands, which does sound horrendous, when Miami Blues is anything but that. Try masterpiece.

  I don't really have much to say, just want to note how great it was for Junior's manchild impulses to be matched step by step through Armitage's brilliant screenplay. For a man whose mantra was doing what he…

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  Arrival 2016

  ★★★★★ Watched 15 Nov 2016 1

  Need to sleep on this. And to see it again. And again. And again.
  Current Consensus: Masterpiece