cstowell

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Favorite films

  • Eyes Wide Shut
  • Malcolm X
  • The Master
  • Yi Yi

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  • Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory

  • Suspense.

  • The Seed of the Sacred Fig

    ★★★★

  • No Other Land

    ★★★★

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  • I'm Still Here

    I'm Still Here

    ★½

    A movie about how Walter Salles is a god who can grant you immortality. 

    Also crazy boring! There is zero characterization and nothing to care about at any point. They’re a family that loves each other - that’s it. 

    Every once in awhile it has an interesting presentation of how film/photography can both preserve a truth and be used to distort it - save a person or depersonalize them and replace them with something else, and how that contrasts with…

  • Look Back

    Look Back

    Manipulative and immature. Also, extremely ugly looking. Not sure what movie everyone else watched here. Despite being under an hour there is barely any substance to support the runtime and much of it is reduced to montages, including one at the end of all recycled scenes. 

    The way the characters act in this are ridiculous - it’s an non-anime watchers parody of what anime is. The conflict is beyond immature - we’re literally watching middle and high schoolers be sad…

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  • Joker: Folie à Deux

    Joker: Folie à Deux

    ★★★★

    I’m going to have to die on the Joker 2 hill.

    I see two types of people who hate this movie:

    1. Weirdos and general audience members who are so attached to the idea of “Joker” from DC Comics, they can’t handle that this movie has no intention of building up to a showdown between Batman and the Crown Prince of Crime, or mythologize the Joker. 

    2. Film snobs who want to say “See, I was right, Todd Phillips was…

  • Licorice Pizza

    Licorice Pizza

    ★★★★★

    Childhood is thinking it would be cool to be Gary.
    Adulthood is knowing how scary it would be if you were Alana.

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