Hector G. Magana

Hector G. Magana

Foreigner curious for foreign things and films.
Trying to make it to the director’s chair but I enjoy moving around.

Favorite films

  • Reservoir Dogs
  • The Batman
  • Amores Perros
  • Arrival

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  • I'm Still Here

    ★★★★★

  • Anora

    ★★★★½

  • Titane

    ★★★★

  • Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl

    ★★★★

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  • I'm Still Here

    I'm Still Here

    ★★★★★

    sonreír ante la tragedia es el don más latinoamericano de todos.

    viva el cine latinoamericano.
    viva walter salles.
    viva fernanda torres.
    viva erasmo carlos.
    muerte a las dictaduras y los gobiernos fascistas.

    vivan las familias de personas desaparecidas, para que puedan encontrar la paz.

  • The Brutalist

    The Brutalist

    ★★★★

    the immigrant experience myth-busting the “american dream” with glorious cinematography, an astonishing score, dubious z*onist tip-toeing, and heorin-induced orgasms.

    i def want that reading chair.

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  • The Deer Hunter

    The Deer Hunter

    ½

    Wait did they really just...?
    I honestly can't remember when was the last time I disliked a movie so much.

    A waste of potential from HUGE EMINENCES like De Niro and Streep, but every single character down to the last creditable performance in this movie feels flat and awkwardly written, let alone the acting part.

    Dialogues are awful, the story is extremely slow and confusing (at least for me; okay, the aftermath of war, and then? spoiler alert: nothing.)

    Cinematography…

  • Spencer

    Spencer

    ★★★★

    An amazing film! 
    Enjoyable, greatly made, horrific (on the locked-in aspect.)

    It speaks so many technical languages (production design, wardrobe, acting, cinematography, score…) yet it is familiar and digestible. 

    I missed watching Jackie and Ema, but this just feels different from the rest of Larrain’s films. Yes, the character study of a broken public character with lots of flaws and a complicated psychology is there, but somehow it’s missing a lot of the political commentaries that the Chilean filmmaker so…