Chris Remo

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Favorite films

  • The Apartment
  • Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
  • Sweet Smell of Success
  • Lawrence of Arabia

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  • Poison

  • Juror #2

  • Rumours

  • A Real Pain

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  • PlayTime

    PlayTime

    I’ve never seen anything quite like this—as though Koyaanisqatsi had been adapted from Where’s Waldo, set entirely within an intricate snow globe the size of a city block.

    PlayTime seems to set out to depict the overwhelming chaos of modern life; it consists of a series of loosely strung-together vignettes set in an irresponsibly modernising world in which Paris, like seemingly every other major city in this reality, is largely constructed of duplicate anonymous glass and steel modernist skyscrapers, and…

  • The Straight Story

    The Straight Story

    Having now seen The Straight Story, I will never again be able to watch a feature-length film by David Lynch for the first time, which is a small sadness in itself, and maybe also fitting. It’s after all a film about the resolute passing of time and the impossibility of turning it back. 

    The Straight Story is less of an outlier in Lynch’s filmography than one might assume. It’s a gentler story than he usually tells, but no less weighty…

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  • The Elephant Man

    The Elephant Man

    I can’t believe I’d never watched this film until today. It’s by far one of the saddest and most beautiful things I’ve seen. Utterly crushing. RIP David Lynch, an absolute titan of cinema.

  • Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

    Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

    Of all the films I’ve seen that were made during my lifetime, this is the one I find most tonally captivating and which is most firmly resident in my psyche. It is magnetically attractive to me in ways I find it difficult to concisely express or even comprehend.

    Just about every scene has at least one creative choice I deeply love, and most have several. But more fundamentally, the whole thing is steeped in a melancholy and yearning that deeply…