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  Working on the Douro River 1931

  ★★★★★ Watched 18 Feb 2025 3

  ethereal, beautiful, invigorating, life affirming filmmaking. a masterpiece

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  Wall Engravings 1967

  ★★★★★ Watched 02 Feb 2025

  'Jean, everything is fragile. Can we live by a memory?'

  Closing line seemed to confirm a lot of what I was thinking during the film, characters taking these passages through their memories of an idyllic, old France, as that world, in the present, is torn down around them. Moving between present/past in B&W/Color respectively had me thinking a lot not about a sort of commentary on the bleakness of their present, but rather about memory as a sort of ongoing…

Popular reviews

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  Jodorowsky's Dune 2013

  Watched 29 Feb 2024

  *Jodo explaining the Baron as a large, slovenly glutton.

  Me (turning to Kevin): oh he's totally about to say he asked Orson Welles to play him.
  
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  This is the best Dune movie. Not jodorowsky's hypothetical film, just this insane posse of freaks who are all equally as convinced as Jodorowsky that this was going to be the greatest film ever made. Their conviction is the spirit of cinema.

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  Salt Along the Tongue 2024

  ★★★★★ Watched 19 Oct 2024

  A singular vision I have watched crawl from my good friend's mind onto the screen. An Italian folkloric vision by way of Argento and Lynch, baked in the hot Aussie sun.
  Bravo Guagliò 💚🤍♥️

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