"I always get criticized for style over content, unlike Ridley’s films like Alien or Blade Runner or Gladiator that go…
◑.◑ THE STARS ARE RIGHT ◑.◑ - 2023 OCTOBER WATCHLIST
i almost never watch horror films so this is the time to purge my cinephile sins -- all killers, no…
🇬🇧 🇺🇸 EAST MEETS WEST 🇯🇵🇨🇳
movies where westerners go to the east, or easterners come to the west. typical culture clash, might include a dollop…
hou hsiao-hsien : best to worst
"What film captures is the world of humans, the human condition, and to capture the changes in their emotion, their…
jia zhangke : best to worst
"I think, in my own films, the rhythms come from life. One of the reasons I love Hou and Ozu…
m. night shyamalan : best to worst
"I am an artist whose art-form is making cinema for a group of people to watch together. That's what I…
robert bresson : best to worst
“Hide the ideas, but so that people find them; the most important will be the most hidden.”
maya deren : best to worst
"Myth is the facts of the mind made manifest in a fiction of matter."
brian de palma : best to worst
"At my age, I don’t really care. I enjoy every day. I’m 75 years old and it’s good to be…
inexplicable gal gadot cameos in 2023 blockbusters
actor jury duty and easy paydays
🇺🇸 the nouveau propaganda 🇺🇸 : a post-marvel military complex
post-2018 movies about the CIA/FBI/military which are in some way supported or facilitated by people involved within america's intelligence apparatus.…
inspirations for my first short film, 'XANATHAN'
i always find it frustrating to trace the course of a director's influences, because most of them make a habit…