Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Always for Pleasure 1978

  ★★★½ Watched 27 Feb 2025

  By viewing the vibrant and distinctive local culture of New Orleans, one can identify the losses inherent in an increasingly digitized, international, and homogenized culture. Simultaneously, I feel a desire to investigate my local community more. 

  
  I wonder if Mardi Gras is still like that in New Orleans. I imagine that the people who go are not present participants in the same way… everybody is inhibited by the surveillance of others or fixated on capturing the spectacle and posting it online. If not that, then there is the potential self-surveillance that accompanies interaction with online “discourses”.

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  Sans Soleil 1983

  ★★★★½ Watched 25 Feb 2025

  Sinophile but for Japan

Popular reviews

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  Cade: The Tortured Crossing 2023

  ★★ Watched 09 Sep 2023 1

  Finally, a plotless movie

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  Barbie 2023

  ★★★ Watched 21 Jul 2023

  Ken is homeless and it’s not resolved by the end of the movie…