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Favorite films

  • Songs from the Second Floor
  • Blow Out
  • Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
  • Wild at Heart

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  • Baby Invasion

  • Misericordia

  • Flow

  • Lancelot of the Lake

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  • Baby Invasion

    Baby Invasion

    Dares to ask: what if Godard had an IQ of 65?

    One of the worst films I’ve ever seen.

  • Misericordia

    Misericordia

    Dial M For Murder X The Trouble with Harry x New Wave Queer French Cinema? More than worth seeing. 

    One of the best scripts of the year, very Pinter coded with a a surprisingly light touch by the end.

    Well acted too - unfortunately it’s pretty poorly photographed and directed. I like that the directer doesn’t want to be “noticed” but I have a bar of framing and camera composition that they didn’t satisfy. So digital and clean it pains me.

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  • The Things You Kill

    The Things You Kill

    “Turn off the lights.”

    Wow. The first hour is a masterful, simmering mystery and just when you think you know where the film will land, it makes the bold choice to give you another hour. This second hour is a nightmare, dream, kafkaesque (excuse the word) metaphor of who you become after violence? Or who you always were?

    If the film had been more typical / less courageous, it would have been ended at an hour and half but it…

  • Él

    Él

    “Faith has become his shield against the world.”

    A hilariously absurdist portrait of a narcissist