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Favorite films

  • The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
  • Amadeus
  • Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
  • The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

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  • Mickey 17

    ★★★

  • The Lion in Winter

    ★★★★½

  • Unforgiven

    ★★★½

  • Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

    ★★★★½

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  • Lawrence of Arabia

    Lawrence of Arabia

    ★★★★½

    “With Major Lawrence, mercy is a passion. With me, it is merely good manners. You may judge which motive is the more reliable”

    Astoundingly beautiful, at a scale so grand it seems to dwarf the entire audience, looming and bombastic. Cinematography I can only describe as the visual equivalent of a full-scale orchestra. Ruined a tad bit by a crowd that seemed to find everything hilarious.

  • The Boy and the Heron

    The Boy and the Heron

    ★★★★★

    “You and I aren’t friends or allies, kid.”

    First Ghibli movie I ever watched, and I did it in the cinema with IMAX. I’ve made sure to make up for lost time and see my share of Ghibli movies since, with each further cementing my love for Miyazaki’s work and the worlds he’s breathed life into. I started to worry then: perhaps I was too easily impressed, wooed by the big screen and naive to such an approach to filmmaking,…