Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  The American Friend 1977

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 01 Feb 2024

  wim wenders clearly loves dennis hopper’s side profile, and for that the world is a better place and i am eternally grateful

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  Chinatown 1974

  ★★★★½ Watched 31 Jan 2024

  it’s crazy i had yet to see this film, and i think i had put it off because i had this impression that it was really serious and hard to follow and yada yada yada. so i was surprised to find myself laughing as i was watching, surprised that it was as funny as it is. but then suddenly the mood changes—no longer is it the story of a petty jealous lover or marginal corrupt official. it becomes a portrait…

Popular reviews

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  Ed and His Dead Mother 1993

  ★★★★ Watched 14 Sep 2021

  I am down so mfing bad for steve buscemi. it's not funny anymore. 😅

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  In the Heat of the Night 1967

  ★★★★ Watched 23 Jan 2024

  honestly can’t believe this was my first time watching but —

  the first thing that became apparent to me while watching was this sort of tension between the new hollywood esque aesthetics of the film (the colors, the music, the language) and a more kind of classic hollywood set up and movement of the story — in a manner that mirrors the layers of the story itself. on one layer there is this classic hollywood narrative (a murder mystery, a…