Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  La Recta Provincia 2007

  ★★★★★ Watched 29 Jun 2017

  Watch here.

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  Blaise Pascal 1972

  ★★★★★ Watched 23 Apr 2017

  Visually bland?

Popular reviews

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  Céline and Julie Go Boating 1974

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 20 Nov 2016

  Someone brought their ~9 year old (!) daughter to this screening. Judging by the throaty giggles which erupted from the front of the theater during Julie's magicienne-burlesque parody act, I'd say she not only "got it" but was 100% on its wavelength. That is righteous parenting, folks. 

  Go read the first two pages of Farber's Kitchen Without Kitsch for the dope.

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  News from Home 1976

  ★★★★★ Watched 03 Nov 2016

  I relate a lot to the way Akerman relates to: cities; her mother; subway stations; long-(shot)-distance love; alienation; diary filmmaking; framing; leaving half the work to chance; color value changes brought on by unexpected shifts in light; the worry that semi-confrontational acknowledgment from strangers is more fulfilling than intimate conversations with family; being repulsed by intimate conversations with family; craving intimate conversations with family; neither knowing how to begin nor sustain intimate conversations with family; a life of quiet jubilation; foreigner's anonymity; catlike semi-independence; the mutual sizing up of cameraperson and subject; streetwatching; so on. I love her, man.