Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  The Crow 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 26 Aug 2024

  objectively not a four star film.

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  The Swan 2023

  ★★★ Watched 07 Oct 2023

  The artifice and stylisation build to and afford moments of unique impact … which the auteur then lacks the good taste or judgement to let fulfil their potential, undermining the good work in this short

Popular reviews

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  Father Frost 1965

  ★★★★ Watched 19 Jan 2021 1

  A tale as old as time: vain twink turns into a bear and has a bit of a crisis.

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  War Requiem 1989

  ★★★★½ Watched 04 May 2021

  Perhaps Jarman’s most visually sublime work. I also think grossly misunderstood.

  I’d argue Jarman is playing with the iconography of WW1 as it has been immortalised in culture and in ritual. In drawing attention towards the climax of the film of other wars, Jarman is critical of the function/repurposing of such art to commemorate the valour of war, suggesting that despite such works having the potential to teach us, we are yet to learn our lessons from the way they…

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