almahysi

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I take pictures and spend a lot of time watching and thinking about movies

Favorite films

  • Eyes Wide Shut
  • A Woman Under the Influence
  • Queen of Earth
  • Crash

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  • Castration Movie Anthology i. Traps

    ★★★★★

  • Castration Movie Anthology i. Traps

    ★★★★★

  • The Limey

    ★★★★

  • Eraserhead

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  • Castration Movie Anthology i. Traps

    Castration Movie Anthology i. Traps

    ★★★★★

    Guess what I watched the second part again bc it fucking rules.

  • Castration Movie Anthology i. Traps

    Castration Movie Anthology i. Traps

    ★★★★★

    I don’t want to judge this piece meal since it is technically not complete. No matter, there is enough here to fill your heart till it bursts and then keeps going. 

    Incredible musical performance moments—another great harkening to Lynch who also appreciated the power of the concentrated musical performance (doesn’t hurt that Clements music is extraordinary and so is she, both as actress and musician). 

    So fucking funny. Vera being like, yeah let me know when the war ends. 

    The…

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  • Anora

    Anora

    ★★½

    The stars belong to the stars, Mikey Madison really does a lot with an archetypal part, as do the Russian and Armenian gang of goons. The problem is that Baker seems more interested in them than the titular character. It seems he often manages to pay more attention to even childish Vanya’s gestural and overall idiosyncrasy (excellent turn from Eydelshteyn) rather than Ani’s.

    He does a disservice to Madison by sidelining her for the whole middle of the movie which…

  • Barbie

    Barbie

    ★★

    As has been said already, the politics are too confused/blatantly lib for the movie to mean or say much of anything. Astounding set and production design but the camerawork is surprisingly unimaginative—yes the sets are beautiful but the way the camera is positioned and moves is boring as hell. 

    I’ll grant Brody’s point that Gerwig was given some freedom here but the issue remains, for me personally, that Gerwig is so much smarter than whatever this is.  Her performances as…

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