Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Le Samouraï 1967

  ★★★★ Watched 12 Jan 2025

  Well paced, chic

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  The Wages of Fear 1953

  ★★★★½ Watched 05 Jan 2025

  I picked this out to practice my languages and ended up enjoying a suspenseful classic with echoes of Treasure of the Sierra Madre!

  I watched the first 40 min (the 'meet the characters' part, before the drive starts) then took a break to eat dinner, then finished the movie. Would recommend breaking it up like this, or watching straight through with a group of people.

  The film made me really want to see all the characters make it through, but of course it's too dangerous a task (and not a Hollywood story) so I expected some wouldn't make it... Still, poor guys :(

Popular reviews

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  F for Fake 1973

  ★★★★★ Added 1

  One of the central questions of F for Fake is "Does authorship influence what is perceived as good/valuable?" Thinking about museums and the art world today, knowing the real artist behind a work is important to scholars so they can make accurate claims about an artist's influences, brushwork, etc. But it's also important from an ethical standpoint so provenance can be tracked and theft of cultural heritage reduced. Most fakes are really bad. The idea of a really good art forger is attractive because there's…

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  Crayola Kids Adventures: The Trojan Horse 1997

  ★★½ Watched 29 Sep 2023

  Takes some liberties but there's songs so maybe it's better than the illiad?