Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Frankie Teardrop: The First Version 2022

  ★★★★ Watched 23 Feb 2025

  Do you think the director's friends tell him, "Hey, just checked out that lyric video you did, it was cool!" and he has to respond, "It's not a lyric video, it's a film! It literally says A FILM BY DOUGLAS HART at the beginning!"

  So, we loggin' music visualisers now on Letterboxd?
  Anyway, nice visual accompaniment, I dig it.

  Also, finally a version of "Frankie Teardrop" that I can listen to during my day-to-day without developing extremely distressing waking nightmares (and weirdly more danceable?).

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  Always (crashing) 2016

  ★ Watched 15 Dec 2024

  Art gallery installation-core (derogatory).

  No really, I bet this played in an art gallery, much like the car featured in it, on a constant loop.

  I'll take the ambient/music concrète score though.

Popular reviews

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  To Kill a Dead Man 1994

  ★★★½ Watched 17 Mar 2020

  For a short film that Portishead seems to downplay as a case of biting off more than they could chew, it's considerably better than I expected, and visually intriguing. The spy/noir vibe saturates this little movie with some neat little moments and ideas that work well within the black-and-white world of To Kill a Dead Man. Portishead's original score is the clear highlight, imbuing that spy film tone throughout each scene, especially keeping that tone rolling through lesser scenes. The…

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  If I Was God 2015

  ★★ Watched 01 Jan 2021

  If I was God, I'd tell a better story, and use a narrator who didn't sound like a disinterested American-sounding voiceover from a children's science documentary about tectonic plates. The stop motion can stay though.

  [watched on Amazon Prime Video]