Chris

Chris

Favorite films

  • Le Samouraï
  • Prisoners
  • The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
  • WALL·E

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  • 12 Angry Men

    ★★★★★

  • The Major and the Minor

    ★★★½

  • Tangerine

    ★★★½

  • Babylon

    ★★★★

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  • 12 Angry Men

    12 Angry Men

    ★★★★★

    Can't sleep? Just go ahead and watch one of the few perfect films to ever exist. It won't solve your insomnia, but you'll enjoy the extra time you had awake.

  • Tangerine

    Tangerine

    ★★★½

    A story:

    The mayor of Chowtown joined me, his constable, for a night at the cinema, to see a film unlike most others. Laughs were shared. Dollar bills thrown. Joy was had. A Sean Baker film that had the clearest plot I'd seen from him, as well as the funniest. The whole donut shop sequence is now seared into my brain in the best way. Pure glorious chaotic cinema. It took me a while to get used to iphone cinematography,…

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  • Barry Lyndon

    Barry Lyndon

    ★★★★

    From rags to riches to rags...

    Kubrick + company created something truly beautiful here, with excellent (natural) lighting, camera placement and movement, and production design that served a story we have seen so many times but in a way so magnificent and full of grandeur. It was truly a pleasure to watch this film. Every frame truly IS a painting.

  • Weird Science

    Weird Science

    ★★★

    A bit of a Spooktober palette cleanser.

    Horrifically outdated, borderline problematic, but has its moments and in its own world of absurdity oddly works.

    Double-feature this and Bottoms to get the full effect and see just how far we've come.

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