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Favorite films

  • Monsieur Verdoux
  • The Bridges of Madison County
  • Side/Walk/Shuttle
  • Deaf

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  • The Spiritual Life of Wholesale Goods

  • Temporary Color

  • How to Remain Single

  • How To Keep Smoking

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  • Faces of November

    Faces of November

    Shoutout to the unseen bugler playing Taps who flubs a partial, that’s some shit I would do

  • American Sniper

    American Sniper

    The Searchers for the 21st century, anatomy of American psycho-mythology, Brechtian dialectics, etc etc duh

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  • Gemini Man

    Gemini Man

    Ang Lee knows exactly what he's doing opening on a train station. He's not merely positioning himself on a cinematic continuum that begins with the Cinematograph, but explicitly aligning himself with the technological innovation of the Lumiere's. They freed cinema from the confines of Edison's Kinetoscope, and now Lee presents us with a work that 100+ years of developing projection technology is still literally unable to contain. Theirs' was a train arriving at the station –– his is departing. Consider…

  • Where Is the Friend's House?

    Where Is the Friend's House?

    Almost Joycean in its circuitous Odyssey-of-the-everyday, and also in its child's-eye view of an often cruel and uncaring adult world (think first chapter of Portrait). There's a deceptiveness at play here, the simplistic nature of the plot obscuring a deeper, more complex world. The wooden doors blown open by the wind tell a story of modernization that young Ahmad can't yet fathom; they're markers of the passing of time ("how does one measure a lifetime?"), the light shining through the…