pep

pep

Married to slow cinema. Working to end the reign of accelerated temporalities. Try-hard training to be an Is-hard.

Favorite films

  • Terrorizers
  • Vive L'Amour
  • Chungking Express
  • Drive My Car

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  • The Graduate

    ★★★

  • Rosetta

    ★★★★½

  • Daisy Kenyon

    ★★★★½

  • Branded to Kill

    ★★★★

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  • The Graduate

    The Graduate

    ★★★

    Oof, this one's a dog. Killer ending though.

  • Rosetta

    Rosetta

    ★★★★½

    Wow, how I've missed films without a score. Karl Marx could save her...

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  • Longlegs

    Longlegs

    ½

    Bizarre acting, boring plot, and an even worse ending. It's funny how they wanted to steal just enough from Silence of the Lambs that they kept the offensive caricature of a queer person but not enough for it to be related to the plot at all. Literally just 'Look how scary this fag is.'

  • Challengers

    Challengers

    ★★★★½

    Kind of the only sports movie that matters. It is so wonderfully kinetic: the insane bisexual polycule drama spanning a decade, the recurring techno beat motifs, the high energy inherent to any sport, the alinearity of it all. And it's wrapped in such an eclectic style/editing for Guadagnino [I know I'm falling into auterism here!] that it can border absurd, but it just works so well.

    And like. This is suchhhhh a porno. Not in the sense that it has…

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