Jacob Hopkins

Jacob Hopkins

Favorite films

  • Man with a Movie Camera
  • Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom
  • Come and See
  • The Graduate

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  • Naked

    ★★★★½

  • Fargo

    ★★★★½

  • Barry Lyndon

    ★★★★

  • The Children's Train

    ★★★½

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  • Naked

    Naked

    ★★★★½

    How has it taken me this long to watch this?

  • Fargo

    Fargo

    ★★★★½

    Upon rewatching the overall plot is a lot less convoluted than I remember. Definitely better in cinemas.

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  • Some Fairytales From The Rotten Shed

    Some Fairytales From The Rotten Shed

    ★★★½

    A story and an odyssey both musical and psychological. Humorous and depressing, the Cardiacs after three days of social isolation within a shed (The Rotten Shed (unofficially The Bumming Shed)) allowed a camera crew into the space to film them. This was done decades ago however owing to a stroke the editor could not finish the film instead it was left on ice for another to finish. It reminds one of the talking heads in Stop Making Sense, however unlike…

  • The Godfather

    The Godfather

    ★★★★

    I don't get the absolute hype, it's good, no denying that... but I don't get why everyone seems to consider it the greatest film of all time it's up there, top 100 maybe even top 25. I don't know what, maybe I need to see part 2.

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