Favorite films

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  Grease 1978

  ★★★★ Rewatched by Huckleberry Shelf 13 Aug 2022

  literally proto repo man wtf

  i got chiiiills

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  A Sense of History 1992

  ★★★★½ Rewatched by Huckleberry Shelf 08 Aug 2022

  being british is a birth defect

Popular reviews

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  Drive My Car 2021

  ★★★★★ Watched by Huckleberry Shelf 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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  The Tree of Life 2011

  ★½ Watched by Huckleberry Shelf 06 Feb 2021 3

  “unless you love, your life will flash by.” i can’t hate a film that says this and means it. here, Malick manages to take me really close. my close friend joan describes the central mistake of this film is taking real ordinary life and mythologizing it in order to analyze it. i think this is close, but that there’s no desire from Malick to analyze these people. their mythologized lives are tools to analyze something which he affords much greater…