Alex Franco

Alex Franco

Favorites are not indicative of all-time, just recently watched that really stuck with me

Favorite films

  • The Age of Innocence
  • A Brighter Summer Day
  • The Silence of the Lambs
  • The Brutalist

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  • Paddington in Peru

  • The Brutalist

  • The Silence of the Lambs

  • Manhunter

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  • Paddington in Peru

    Paddington in Peru

    Paddington in Peru really got me thinking about the methods by which colonialist powers create institutions and systems of culture/education to distance indigenous peoples from awareness of their own cultural identities in order to exploit them and their natural resources in service of an international capitalist economy.

  • The Brutalist

    The Brutalist

    I like that the intermission is a very conscious formal choice by Corbet. It’s clear just a minute or so into the second half that the intermission serves as a sort of reset for the audience and the movie itself. I don’t know if I can even imagine the movie without it, which is good. I can’t really help myself with Greenaway comparisons but this is thematically similar to the Draughtsman’s Contract in that it examines a power struggle revolving…

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  • Killers of the Flower Moon

    Killers of the Flower Moon

    ★★★★★

    Namedropping J. Edgar Hoover like he’s Nick Fury sending in the Avengers. But I thought Marty hated superhero movies!

  • Faust

    Faust

    Bring back the days of stop motion-live action-marionette-opera-play-ballet fusion cinema.

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