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Favorite films

  • The Lighthouse
  • Tropical Malady
  • Tower. A Bright Day.
  • Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania

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  • Cinema Paradiso

    ★★½

  • Stromboli

    ★★★★

  • Islands of Fire

  • There Is a Light

    ★★

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  • The Killer

    The Killer

    ★★★

    this could potentially be a very interesting anti-genre film if fincher had just fully leaned into focusing on the most dull and monotonous aspects of being a hitman without actually showing us any of the killing? it already has a plenty of that, but not enough for it to feel like the point of the film, so it ends up somewhere halfway as a very middling action film. the stakes feel very low, and the plot is too straightforward to…

  • God's Own Country

    God's Own Country

    ★★★★

    sooo interesting to revisit this… read an interview with francis lee recently where he recalls the trouble he had funding this film and how eventually it ended up getting made thanks to the political situation at that time and well. it does very much feel like this film is a part of that wave of mid 2010s slightly schematic queer dramas. however!!! having seen ammonite, which I am a huge fan of (along with like 3 other people) it’s even…

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  • Red, White & Royal Blue

    Red, White & Royal Blue

    ½

    set design $50
    acting coaches $30
    lighting $10
    uma thurman $3,600,000
    costumes $30
    someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my movie is dying

  • Your Name Engraved Herein

    Your Name Engraved Herein

    ★★

    well um........... i really wanted to like this in fact i was sure i was going to love it! it has a lot of things which technically should make me like it but frankly. this was the most confusing romance movie ive ever seen? the characters seem to switch personalities halfway through to the point where i thought my eyes were fooling me and i was mistaking one for the other? the beginning had so much potential it actually frustrated…