Favorite films

Pinned reviews

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  Eraserhead 1977

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 17 Jan 2025

  you were the reason i picked up a camera
  and shot the trees in the woods behind 
  my childhood home
   
  rest well, david 
   
  🤍🕊️
   
   
   
  january 20, 1946
  january 15, 2025

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  Andy Warhol Eating a Hamburger 1982

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 16 Nov 2023

  The movie grips you without delay. Just when you think all is peachy, artist and burger-eater Andy Warhol doesn’t shy away from delivering high drama shortly after the first frame. It’s the Ketchup. “It doesn’t come out,” Warhol remarks quietly, displaying a somewhat agitated smile in an attempt to mask momentary chagrin. But he doesn’t give up, bravely broadcasting a promising technique for guiding ketchup out of the classic Heinz 57 glass bottle and onto a Burger King wrapper.
  Fearing I…

Recent reviews

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  Elephant 1989

  ★★★★★ Watched 15 Mar 2025

  Quite stunning. An anti-narrative tour de force. Without mentioning the elephant in the room, this is 39 minutes of truly masterful steadicam work.

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  The Girl with the Needle 2024

  ★★★★★ Watched 11 Mar 2025

  It’s been a while since a film has moved, inspired, and even wounded me on such an intense level. A deeply harrowing story led by Vic Carmen Sonne, who gives one of the most heartbreakingly beautiful and timeless performances I’ve seen in years. She’s brilliant, carrying in her eyes a sadness so poignant, it pierces me to my core. The entire cast delivers. The filmmaking is astonishing from the cinematography to the sound design. It would be a lie to…

Popular reviews

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  The Substance 2024

  ★★★ Watched 09 Oct 2024 2

  This won best screenplay at Cannes? Hmm. 

  Entertaining, sure. But extremely predictable. And really not as shocking as people on Letterboxd are claiming. The close ups of Dennis Quaid eating shrimp in the beginning grossed me out more than the final act, not gonna lie.

  All that said, I believe I made a grave mistake of seeing this movie alone in a relatively empty theater. If I had seen it with a big group of friends in a packed house,…

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  The Brutalist 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 10 Jan 2025

  Brady Corbet and his team made a 4 hour epic from a 170+ page script. A period piece shot in multiple countries with a huge cast and crew. Complicated sets. They had only 33 days to shoot — with a budget less than $6 million. Shot on 35mm film using the VistaVision process — the film was then scanned and printed in 70mm.

  The fact that he pulled this off is insanely impressive, which is why I forgive a few…