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Favorite films

  • Three Colours: Red
  • In the Mood for Love
  • The Graduate
  • 8½

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  • The Brutalist

  • We're All Going to the World's Fair

  • Capricorn One

  • Captain America: Brave New World

    ★½

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  • The Brutalist

    The Brutalist

    "This place is rotten. The landscape, the food we eat. This whole country is rotten."

    A film that shows the competing values of the process (including the production of a movie) versus the end result. Really enjoyed this one.

  • We're All Going to the World's Fair

    We're All Going to the World's Fair

    “I know how it's going to end now. I'm going inside the video, through the computer, into the screen.”

    Schoenbrun’s I Saw The TV Glow was my favorite film of 2024 and I’ve been really keen to visit their earlier work. World’s Fair is like watching TV Glow’s concepts in seed form.

    Where TV Glow uses the medium of television, World’s Fair has its focus on the internet. It captures something unique about online culture by using the visual language of…

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  • The Big Boss

    The Big Boss

    Watched on Criterion Collection Blu-Ray.

  • Nashville

    Nashville

    ★★★★★

    “Y'all take it easy now. This isn't Dallas, it's Nashville! They can't do this to us here in Nashville! Let's show them what we're made of. Come on everybody, sing! Somebody, sing!”

    Every time I watch this movie I’m just floored by it. A heartbroken Keenan Wynn leaving his wife’s funeral to find his niece. A naive and humiliated Gwen Welles being told that she can’t sing and her soul with be irreparably damaged if she continues to try. The…

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