Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Bits 2024

  ★★★ Watched 24 Mar 2025

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

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  Conclave 2024

  ★★★ Watched 23 Mar 2025

  I don't really have a bucket list per se, but if I did 'smoking in the Vatican' would be on it.

Popular reviews

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  Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom 1975

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 04 Jan 2019

  There are a many parallels between Salo and Contempt, which I watched last night. Both are movies about the idea of cinema, rather movies against the idea of cinema. How aestheticized does violence have to be for it to be acceptable, for it to be Art? After watching both, I feel everything stripped away; my perversion and lust, my love for art, for cinema is all a joke, something to be ashamed of. An art directed symbol on a screen…

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  Memoria 2021

  ★★★★½ Watched 27 Apr 2022

  Upstairs Theater 3 at Sag Harbor Cinema. Guy behind the ticket counter told us, "good choice, this might be the best movie I've seen in the last decade." Then said, "someone walked out of a screening after the first 45 minutes and called it the worst thing they've ever seen. That's like if you stopped reading Moby Dick before they even get on the boat." Weird, I was just thinking of maybe reading that, but haven't yet. All that to…