Sarah Welch-Larson

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Favorite films

  • Mad Max: Fury Road
  • Stalker
  • Wings of Desire
  • Near Dark

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  • The Zone of Interest

    ★★★★

  • The Holdovers

    ★★★★

  • Napoleon

    ★★½

  • The Wind Rises

    ★★★★½

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  • Stop Making Sense

    Stop Making Sense

    ★★★★★

    Burned all my notebooks / What good are notebooks? / They won’t help me survive / My chest is aching / It burns like a furnace / The burning keeps me alive

    This doc was a lifeline for me in March 2020 and then it became a bared-teeth expression of defiance in the face of pain and now it’s a rager of a party. Whenever Demme frames the stage so you can see the concert audience out of focus in the…

  • The Blair Witch Project

    The Blair Witch Project

    ★★★★½

    Watching this movie for the first time sitting next to my husband, who is named Josh, was very unsettling.

    This felt like every urban legend, creepypasta, and nosleep Reddit thread distilled down into bare bones. I'm not sure it could have been made anywhere else. It's so ordinary and its characters are so self-important and insecure. It's an American ghost story brought to life, scuffed up and then abandoned like so much trash in the woods. I'm never going camping again.

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  • Napoleon

    Napoleon

    ★★½

    Ridley Scott’s most buckwild creative choice here is using a track from Dario Marianelli’s score for the 2005 Pride and Prejudice as Josephine’s seduction theme

  • The Wind Rises

    The Wind Rises

    ★★★★½

    “You must live.” A command, a blessing, and a curse.

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  • A Room with a View

    A Room with a View

    ★★★★½

    Cecil is horrible and I want five of him

  • Nope

    Nope

    ★★★★★

    Daniel Kaluuya reaching over to click the lock button on his truck is the funniest thing I've seen all year