cartilagehead

cartilagehead

Favorite films

  • Mulholland Drive
  • Paris, Texas
  • Akira
  • 2001: A Space Odyssey

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  • Twin Peaks: The Return

    ★★★★★

  • Barefoot

  • Lucky

    ★★★★½

  • Thief

    ★★★★

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  • Twin Peaks: The Return

    Twin Peaks: The Return

    ★★★★★

    Six stars if anything ever gets it. Incredibly special—does more to investigate and explore and reinvestigate its world and its characters and itself than any “sequel” could ever aspire to. There are indeed mysteries and portals to other worlds everywhere!!

    Stray observations on rewatching:

    - So so beautiful as the last big Lynch thing we got. Explicitly and winkingly in conversation with so much of his other stuff. 
    - The Dougie arc doesn’t actually drag at all how I remembered. …

  • Barefoot

    Barefoot

    Important context here is Germans made it first. Got a banger review ready if you guys let me use the R word

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  • Lucky

    Lucky

    ★★★★½

    Bittersweet poetic realism perfectly realized. Nothing to add except eat your heart out, Perfect Days

  • Borderlands

    Borderlands

    ½

    Slop for the slop throne. Indistinct from a mid-range Koodo ad you have to watch before you get on the wifi in the subway. Completely weightless and somehow stupider than I thought it would be considering it’s based on a head-clicker cum slot machine. I spent about 20 hours on Borderlands 2 in a black mould–riddled basement apartment like 15 years ago, which I give a two and a half.

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