Favorite films

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  Children of the Corn 1984

  Watched 24 Oct 2020

  Corny.

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  How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days 2003

  Watched 18 Sep 2020

  A man who markets alcohol and a woman who works for a fashion magazine but clearly has ambitions to work for a think tank manipulate each other as they jockey for a chance to sell conflict diamonds at their respective workplaces. On the journey they attend high-priced sporting events and acquire a small domesticated animal. A key text of GW Bush-era neoliberal cinema.

Popular reviews

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  Filmmaker 1968

  Watched 26 Jan 2015 5

  This is a documentary about Francis Ford Coppola, who at one point says, "The world is filled with guys who said, well, I'm gonna make the money and then I'll make the personal films. And somehow, they never get around to doing it."

  The director of this documentary is George Lucas.

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  Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) 2014

  Watched 11 Jan 2015 3

  There's a moment where Keaton says, "I've got the chance to do something important," at almost the exact time a bottle of Stella Artois clearly settles in the frame, and for some reason it stuck with me as a minor emblem of the movie's hollowness. Are they so crass as to put a product placement in there as the hero bears his soul? Or is this a deliberate nudge at his petty self-importance adrift in a world of commodity? It's…