Aidan Bay

Aidan Bay

Favorite films

  • Beau Travail
  • Certain Women
  • Persona
  • Code Unknown

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  • Dead Man

    ★★★★★

  • Anora

    ★★★½

  • re-c(O)unting I. self-exploring bodies, stories, laboratories

    ★★★½

  • The House

    ★★★★½

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  • Dead Man

    Dead Man

    ★★★★★

    Surprised how much I loved this, been putting it off for a while. I think I was worried about how the Native American aspects would be handled

    Works both as a journey to death and a tale of American original sin. Jarmusch's most Lynchian film. Nice balance of silly and serious. Gorgeous images while still willing to take visual risks. I love how it leans into nostalgic homage (the gun fights are all ridiculous) without being gratuitous. The "movie" aspects feel like a deliberate choice to reach for a more spiritual beauty/sense of reality, as they should in any good hollywood flick. Good shit

  • Alien: Romulus

    Alien: Romulus

    ★★★½

    So tired of Hollywood dialogue but visually really perty and still stays scary

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  • The Endless Summer

    The Endless Summer

    ★★½

    Racist boring but also there’s definitely a vibe

  • Licorice Pizza

    Licorice Pizza

    ★★½

    Even if there was no age gap I didn’t buy the romance I’m sorry. :/ The nostalgia goggles are too strong here. Sad that PTA pulled a Quentin and made a problematic 70s nostalgia thing when you’d hope he’d have the wiser perspective of an adult by now.

    You’re supposed to be on board from the beginning but I just thought Gary was annoying and of course and more importantly 15 lol. It would all be less of an issue if…

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