Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Modern Times 1936

  ★★★★ Rewatched 18 Mar 2025

  w/ commentary

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  My Brother's Wedding 1983

  ★★★½ Watched 07 Mar 2025

  Obligation, status, cynicism and a staggering passivity are explored with tenderness and tension in Charles Burnett's wonderfully patient naturalism.

Popular reviews

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  La La Land 2016

  ½ Watched 22 Feb 2017 13

  This movie has no soul.

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  Places in Cities 1998

  ★★★★★ Watched 13 Oct 2012 3

  Because this early film by Angela Schanelec has no reviews logged on Letterboxd I have gone back and dug up my initial thoughts on the film when I first saw it in October of 2012: 

  Places In Cities opens with a young man talking to a teenage girl, her back to the camera. Her brown hair is pulled tight in a pony tail. The young man professes his love for her, knows that he is too old for her --…