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Favorite films

  • Syndromes and a Century
  • The Zone of Interest
  • First Cow
  • Holy Motors

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  • American Hustle

    ★★★

  • The Clock

    ★★★★★

  • Birth

    ★★★★★

  • After Hours

    ★★★★★

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  • House of Tolerance

    House of Tolerance

    ★★★★★

    - coolest brothel film since Flowers of Shanghai (and I think that one may have had a big influence on this one—it seems to make a multifaceted imitation of it: musically evoking it; appropriating the slow glide camera movements; and not to mention the gas lamp and candle lit chiaroscuro compositions)
    - but as much as it emulates, it doesn’t register as derivative and I think it manages to innovate too
    - it has lots of split screens and many varieties:…

  • The Earrings of Madame de...

    The Earrings of Madame de...

    ★★★★★

    The Earrings of Madame de... begins with a playful, dazzling tracking shot that is characteristic of the style of Max Olphüs. It shows, first, the finger of the eponymous madame as it alights upon (and by extension: as she comes to regard) item after item of clothing, furs and jewelry in, we presume, her boudoir. Her disembodied voice informs us of what’s going on—not in extra diegetic narration like the opening of Olphüs’ La Ronde but, made apparent in the…

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  • American Hustle

    American Hustle

    ★★★

    At times it’s a bit silly and overcooked but I still have a lot of fun watching some of these actors go all bananas (Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence steal the show)

  • The Clock

    The Clock

    ★★★★★

    - Wow
    - Just fucking wow 
    - Wish I had more time to watch the whole thing. I gave it 120 mins though. Gave it a feature film’s worth of time before freeing up my museum sofa spot for others and taking off to check out the rest of MOMA
    - But any way… Where do I start with this? Well… for one, I loved checking my time against its time. 
    - For two: I guess to describe it a…

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  • After Hours

    After Hours

    ★★★★★

    - It’s NYC as a serious nervous condition, as a hell bent bad dream
    - It’s New Yorkers talking at and mostly past each other until they collide and blow up on and run like hell from each other 
    - Condensed to one wild night, we speed through a whole life of dating and calamitous breakups
    - Watched at The Evelyn

  • Anora

    Anora

    ★★★★★

    This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.