Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Vengeance Is Mine 1984

  ★★★★½ Watched 28 Nov 2023

  from david berman:

  one of these days these days will end
  through the kitchen window the light will bend
  youll be carving a pumpkin with a knife
  when someone at the table says THATS NOT WHAT I CALL A LIFE

  these are lyrics from pretty eyes. i put the song on the other day and my roommate said "has anyone ever been better at empathizing with things." i guess i'd throw michael roemer's hat into that ring.

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  May December 2023

  ★★★★★ Watched 25 Nov 2023

  as good as it gets. if melodrama is beauty found in love mitigated by circumstance, this is its inverse, its autocritique, its implosion and epitome. there's so much to say about this one that i can't articulate yet but what i know is that this is todd haynes' new high watermark.

Popular reviews

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  Drive My Car 2021

  ★★★★★ Watched 16 Oct 2021 4

  A man has a gun. He shows you the gun, the empty clip, makes sure you know it's not loaded. He puts the gun to your head. He spends three hours spinning beautiful prose about how the gun is loaded. He uses every rhetorical trick he knows to convince you that the gun is loaded. You stay strong though, you know it isn't. He cajoles, he waxes poetic, he whispers and shouts, he's charismatic and seductive and brilliantly smart, but he's wrong. You know he's wrong. Then he pulls the trigger and blows your brains out.

  maybe the best movie ever?

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  Night and Fog 1956

  ½ Rewatched 22 Nov 2023 1

  huckleberryshelf.substack.com/p/night-and-fog

  this one is important to me. if you at all balk at the rating please read it.

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