Favorite films

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  The Pillow Book 1995

  ★★★★½ Watched 17 Mar 2025

  greenaway starting to slide into his full blown moving pictures scrapbook stage here. really funny seeing the reviews from the non-greenaway fans just here for the mcgregor dong and weren't prepared for a complete abandonment of aspect ratio and natural shot composition.

  greenaway isn't so much ahead of his time as he is outside of it - broadcasting from a dimension where film replaced traditional visual arts. where the frame is a painting, but so much more. a natural progression…

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  Death Watch 1980

  ★★★★ Watched 18 Mar 2025

  shades of cuaron's children of men. shades of wenders's until the end of the world. reminiscent of keitel's traveler in ulysess' gaze. society crumbles in the most banal of ways and we cling to images of others, conjuring feeling from their narratives rather than our own. a road movie through urban decay, rubble, grey skies and pointless aimless protest. there are those who have eked out lives of art, continuing g the grand human traditions in the cracks and crevices…

Popular reviews

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  Paris, Texas 1984

  ★★★ Watched 19 Feb 2023

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

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  Halloween 1978

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 31 Oct 2021

  spending 70k of a 300k shoestring budget on a panaglide camera was a choice so inspired and so risky that it feels divine and inexplicable. and it sells the entire film. the opening shot through the meyers house? the camera spending most of the film looming and stalking and always just There? perfect. 10/10. feels like fall in the same way that texas chain saw feels like summer and black christmas feels like winter.

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