Chris Palmer

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Favorite films

  • GoodFellas
  • Training Day
  • Invasion of the Body Snatchers
  • Lost Highway

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  • Ocean's Eleven

    ★★★★½

  • Porco Rosso

    ★★★★

  • Lost Highway

    ★★★★★

  • Birth

    ★★★★½

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  • Porco Rosso

    Porco Rosso

    ★★★★

    Italian pig voiced by Michael Keaton dogfighting fascist air pirates, what’s there not to like?

  • Lost Highway

    Lost Highway

    ★★★★★

    “There's nine people down here, and you can ask seven of them. If you can get that price from one of them, I'll let you ask the other two.”

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  • The Zone of Interest

    The Zone of Interest

    ★★★★★

    I’ve been so behind on logging my reviews, yet I can’t still feel the weight of this film pulling me down like gravity.  

    It’s beautifully bleak, a brutally simple picture of how the purest form over evil just fits into the reality of life.  Glazer paints a portrait of civilized monstrosity, life amidst a human horror.  And he tightropes without introducing what I would come to expect of a Holocaust film; the horrific travesties play as the active background…

  • Babylon

    Babylon

    ★★★★

    Electric, excessive and (considerably) eclectic, it’s a boisterous dive into the history of early film and it’s glitzy era of the Roaring 20’s transitioning into a more grounded post-Great Depression that ushered in sound into film.  Partakes in the Hollywood historical circlejerk, though takes less of a glorified approach and balances the peaks with the many pits of its own generations

    Not sure how intentionally hysterical it was meant to be, Babylon baffles enough to leave you laughing at what…