alixno

alixno

Favorite films

  • Desperately Seeking Susan
  • McCabe & Mrs. Miller
  • Ninotchka
  • Pierrot le Fou

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  • Murder by Numbers

    ★½

  • Stagecoach

    ★★★★½

  • Conclave

    ★★★

  • Queer

    ★★★

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  • Emilia Pérez

    Emilia Pérez

    ★★½

    A slightly better Mrs Doubtfire

  • FearDotCom

    FearDotCom

    This has no clue what it is

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  • Nauru 1973

    Nauru 1973

    ★★★★

    pleasant island...

    if you're not familiar with the region, 'Nauru' won't evoke the images of decay, poverty, and the notorious detention centers that the small island country is now associated with. so i'd recommend that you read the youtube comments under the video because they're actually quite enriching. everyone in the comments seem to share the same sentiment that oozes from the film; a romantic projection of the past, a sincere longing to go back to 1973, to that innocuous…

  • Terrorizers

    Terrorizers

    ★★★½

    beautiful to watch but i can't say that i extracted anything too meaningful from it. Yang's subjects are all too familiar, he seems drawn to subtle dramas, and the fertile ground of his work is located in the ordinary. when a revelation in the story occurs, or when a beautiful composition is framed, it's only made that much more remarkable by the mundanity that surrounds it.

    if one were to separate the film from its structure and present it as…