I only rate the movies I want to revisit when the dementia takes me.
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The Brown Bunny 2003
An act of astounding and audacious minimalism by Vincent Gallo, a stunning departure from his at times borderline expressionistic and moody “Buffalo 66”, “The Brown Bunny” is a tactile exploration of heartbreak and regret. Bud Clay, motorcycle racer, drives across America to get to his next race. On the trip he listens to music, often folk music. He thinks about his ex girlfriend Daisy often. He stops occasionally for brief, sexually charged encounters with other women. These often are shown…
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Drive My Car 2021
Terrified of taking agency in your own life and the possible resulting heartbreak. Longing to be a passenger, driven away for hours, freed of your choices and potential mistakes. Nothing but time for contemplation and regret.
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Mission: Impossible II 2000
Me and my buddy were drunk and the only ones at a midnight screening. Incredible fucking movie. one of the very best.
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Céline and Julie Go Boating 1974
Utterly mesmerizing, hypnotic and dreamlike. Definitely one to revisit- feels like a surreal hang out film.
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Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness 2022
Th "Raimi influence" is predictably overhyped and in the context of the overall film those techniques and moments become nothing more than another reference, essentially becoming Easter Eggs for film nerds to gawk at. The MCU is now a franchise that has totally abandoned any semblance of narrative structure replacing it with nothing more than endlessly trite exposition and tedious unfunny bathos. This is barely even a movie. Nothing has its own emotional context, there is zero tension or heightening…
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The Card Counter 2021
Both incredibly tense and meditative, Paul Schrader pours all his formal and subtextual obsessions into another political fire-charged exploration of America's soul. While "First Reformed" explored nihilism in the face of environmental catastrophe (and ends on a moment of optomism) this film is as pessimestic as Schrader has ever gotten as he examines a country that has completely lost its moral compass and ethical center.
William Tell, our principal character is a former enhanced interrogation operative who was employed at…
