cianmalin

cianmalin

Favorite films

  • Paris, Texas
  • La Strada
  • 8½
  • The Grand Budapest Hotel

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  • Smoking Causes Coughing

    ★★★★

  • Reality

  • The Pinchcliffe Grand Prix

  • The Worst Person in the World

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  • Smoking Causes Coughing

    Smoking Causes Coughing

    ★★★★

    More like this film causes laughing

  • Reality

    Reality

    Confusing and amusing; bits of this feel like an I Think You Should Leave sketch, all of it made feel the same as Mulholland Drive did

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  • The Brutalist

    The Brutalist

    ★★★★★

    A film about a Bauhaus architect was always going to be made for me. Banging. Completely with it for the whole 215 minutes.

    My first thought was how this reminded me of Tár, and how they’re both kind of ‘anti-biopics’, if that can be a term?? I.e.: extremely detailed monographs about fictional people rooted in very specific histories, almost to the point where they seem real. Tóth is a composite of real figures in architecture, so the story is about…

  • Nights of Cabiria

    Nights of Cabiria

    ★★★★½

    GIULIETTA MASINA.

    Best actor ever
    Best clown ever
    Best face ever
    Her physicality
    Her expressions
    Her timing
    The way she makes you instantly care so much about her
    I love you Giulietta
    You are a genius Giulietta
    Will you marry me
    You little chaotic freak