Grant

Grant

nocturnal daydreamer ☁️

What's great about movies is that I'm not living my life while watching them.

Favorite films

  • The Hitcher
  • The Thin Red Line
  • The Shining
  • Blade Runner 2049

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  • Christopher the Christmas Tree

  • Collateral

    ★★★★★

  • Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood

    ★★★★

  • Le Samouraï

    ★★★★

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  • Le Samouraï

    Le Samouraï

    ★★★★

    Purely distilled and tactile filmmaking. Melville stays in the space between, an observer of his own creations. Communication through silence. Rain encases the city, obscuring clarity, a visual distance defined between us all. What's inside another is inaccessible, only shared in wilful fragments. Faces with untold pasts. Blurred memories. A solmn, mysterious realm, gazing into the unknowable expanse behind the eyes of every individual.

  • Raising Arizona

    Raising Arizona

    ★★★★★

    Wonderfully wacky and overflowing with personality. You can feel the sparks of impassioned, giddy filmmakers being let loose, painting the frame with every exuberant, colorful idea they possess. There's a playfulness in its form, the camera floats and glides with the freedom of a dream, the wonder of a cartoon. A world unconstrained by the rigid bounds of convention.

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  • What We Do in the Shadows

    What We Do in the Shadows

    ★★★★

    What We Do in the Shadows is a rather simple film that gets the most out of its premise through eccentric characters and phenomenal cast chemistry. Playing with the tropes and mythology of vampire's while bringing them to a contemporary setting, placing them in mundane everyday scenarios makes for comedy gold. The causal, dry humor works because it takes an absurd, foreign yet familiar concept and makes it relatable. There's something that feels so simultaneously outlandish and grounded about everything…

  • Speak No Evil

    Speak No Evil

    ★★

    Very uncomfortable and deeply unpleasant, but it arrives at those feelings without having anything compelling to say, all while being too heavy-handed to sustain an air of mystery, and too predictable to function as a thriller. Feels more like an exercise in testing the audiences ability to tolerate bad decision making and tedious, awkward social interactions. It attempts to create escalating tension from our desire to rationalize what discomforts us, to remain amicable in spite of concerning behavior. But the…