Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  When Two Won't Do

  Added

  So obscure here on Letterboxd. I was one of the people who helped fund this, and would have watched it first on my own copy some time in 2002. Was reminded of it today (5/24/2023) as I'm decluttering and came across some correspondence, so now am marking as watched, more than twenty years later. (I don't even know whatever happened to my copy--I guess I probably gave it away.)

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  Triumph of the Will 1935

  Watched 13 May 2023

  I don't like crowds and I don't like parades, and while I could admire the filmmaking, I was mostly bored.

Popular reviews

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  Booksmart 2019

  ★★★★½ Watched 11 Apr 2019

  Thank you special preview screening!

  Maybe the best high school comedy since Fast Times at Ridgemont High?

  So hilarious and so important. Really.

  
  Also, as someone who’s not afraid of Virginia Woolf, I smiled at the “A Room of One’s Own” sign. Such a nice little touch that I wondered how many other nice little touches I missed.

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  Cléo from 5 to 7 1962

  ★★★★ Watched 15 Mar 2019

  r/LetterboxdOfficial Film Club 010

  Watched this a month ago, intending to do a small write-up, but then, even though I very much liked the film, was struggling with coming up with anything cohesive to say. So I guess I'm just going to jot some of things that made an impression in some way, enough that I remember them a month later.

  1) I saw this as a double-feature just before Godard's Vivre Sa Vie and as a little bit of…