Alex Hurley

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Favorite films

  • Inland Empire
  • Wild at Heart
  • Lost Highway
  • Eraserhead

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  • Black Bag

    ★★★½

  • Ultraviolet

    ★★★½

  • Luminous People

  • North by Northwest

    ★★★★

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  • Nymphomaniac

    Nymphomaniac

    ★★★★★

    Which way do you think you’d get the most out of my story? By believing in it or by not believing in it?

    Watched both extended director’s cuts straight through to make the experience as singular as possible, the way Lars von Trier had anticipated. This epic movie is daunting and asks a tremendous amount of its audience. A film I’m unlikely to recommend to people because one must be willing to subject themselves to it completely and most won’t.…

  • Twin Peaks: The Return

    Twin Peaks: The Return

    Rounding out my Twin Peaks rewatch, The Return remains one of the most important pieces of art ever made. It’s hard for me to express just how much I love this because there is not anything that has ever made me feel the way this does. I’m really not exaggerating when I say I think about this every single day since I first watched it. Its moments replaying in my head as I go about my mundane life, pieces of…

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  • Ultraviolet

    Ultraviolet

    ★★★½

    She came, she conquered, she killed, and she looked incredible doing it. Can’t believe this wasn’t doing numbers in 2006.

  • Luminous People

    Luminous People

    There is beauty in grief and humanity.

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  • Megalopolis

    Megalopolis

    ★★★★★

    Megalopolis is an absolute force and you can feel the weight of its 40 years in the making. Easily one of the most visually impressive and transformative films of the decade. Cinema is at its best when artists aren’t afraid to push the boundaries of what film can contain. 

    A majority of criticism for this film comes from people saying it’s not narratively cohesive and a bit of a mess; however, I didn’t really feel that at all. I felt…

  • Mickey 17

    Mickey 17

    ★★★★

    We are all so blessed to be alive at the same time as Robert Pattinson.