chinema

chinema

🍿 if you're visiting from film raffle, i appreciate recs outside of my watchlist ✨

Favorite films

  • Poetry
  • Raise the Red Lantern
  • Funeral Parade of Roses
  • House

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  • No Other Land

  • Little Women

    ★★★½

  • Mickey 17

    ★★★★

  • The Brutalist

    ★★★½

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  • Mickey 17

    Mickey 17

    ★★★★

    the gap between the releases for parasite and mickey 17 is the longest in bong joon ho's filmography – it's been 6 years. as one of the most highly anticipated movies globally, i feared that this blockbuster would fail to meet (my attempt at low) expectations.

    but oooo boy was i pleased! pleased by the production design, pleased by his return to creatures, pleased to witness rob's strange and endearing character voices. am i biased because i'm a sucker for…

  • The Brutalist

    The Brutalist

    ★★★½

    shoutout to the guy in the row in front of me dancing during the epilogue, i needed that

    plenty i could complain about but the sheer accomplishment of this feature having a $9 mil budget floors me and also im too dejected by the tiktok ban to critique further

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  • Synecdoche, New York

    Synecdoche, New York

    ★★★★

    when you watch enough kaufman, you get to know his idiosyncracies – self-loathing protagonists, unrequited love, attempts to establish meaning through universal art, offbeat chronology, surrealism and symbolism galore. personally...i can't get enough of his perspective and sadistically love watching him in interviews, nervously trying to synopsize his own work. it's not easy for him, and he doesn't make it easy for his audience either.

    whereas adaptation self-references kaufman's anxieties and satirizes the industry and medium's conventions, synecdoche amplifies his…

  • Tenet

    Tenet

    ★★

    as soon as rob pattinson smiled i knew i would survive this film

    (idk if it’s me just being in a theater for the first time in awhile, but the sound mixing was so painful)