Julie

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Favorite films

  • The Lion King
  • The Prestige
  • Hook
  • Some Like It Hot

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  • A New Leaf

    ★★★★½

  • Repo! The Genetic Opera

    ★★★★

  • Alleluia! The Devil's Carnival

    ★★★½

  • The Devil's Carnival

    ★★

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  • A New Leaf

    A New Leaf

    ★★★★½

    “Did you hurt yourself?”
    “No, kneeling on glass is my favorite pastime. It keeps me from slouching.”

    Absolutely delightful. Screwball romcom energy except technically less focus on the romance, since our lead is an asexual sociopath trying to find the right wealthy heiress to marry and murder. Great slapstick physical comedy and sharp dialogue. It ends more abruptly than I expected, which can probably chalked up to the film being re-cut from Elaine May’s original vision; but the final product is just soooo fun and funny and witty that I still adored it.

  • Repo! The Genetic Opera

    Repo! The Genetic Opera

    ★★★★

    Delightful pulpy schlock for Hot Topic goths and theater kids (complimentary). Luckily for me, this was the exact right combination of influences for this movie to take over my entire brain in college, and turns out I still love its campy nonsense even over a decade later!! It’s basically Sweeney Todd in a futuristic sci fi body-horror capitalist dystopia and I’m so here for it.

    Also: literal Joan Jett cameo in Shilo’s teen girl punk-rock dream sequence is perfect.

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  • The Swerve

    The Swerve

    ★★

    Oof. We paired this with Swallow on the same day, because they're both stories about disaffected unhappy wives struggling with their circumstances, striving to regain some sense of control over their situation, and acting out in strange ways -- but it turns out that The Swerve was, um, sub-par, and I'm not quite sure why everyone's singing its praises.

    The good: Azura Skye's performance is amazing. She's ragged, haggard, haunting, visibly coming apart at the seams. Watching her wrestle with…

  • The Quick and the Dead

    The Quick and the Dead

    ★★★★½

    “I’m gonna kill you if I have to ride all the way to Hell to do it.”

    This ruled so, so much. How did I never know that Sam Raimi did a western with a stacked cast and lead Sharon Stone as a great female gunslinger (who’s kickass but also gets to show real fear & vulnerability), and who has a yearning romance with a young and ludicrously handsome Russell Crowe???

    I am obsessed. This was everything I love.