Doug Dumais

Doug Dumais

Favorite films

  • 2001: A Space Odyssey
  • Embrace of the Serpent
  • F for Fake
  • The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou

Recent likes

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  • Ryuichi Sakamoto: Coda
  • Toni Erdmann
  • Hamilton
  • Knives Out

Recent reviews

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  • Toni Erdmann

    Toni Erdmann

    ★★★★½

    A thrilling movie that is highly unpredictable and rewarding. Some startling scenes that make this film occasionally wander into the territory of the absurd sort of dreams you would have after too much pizza. But it tackles the theme of vulnerability with a lot of sincerity. The director's decision to have the cast members play this comedy as if it was a drama comes across really strongly and I appreciated this approach to filmmaking.

  • Last Year at Marienbad

    Last Year at Marienbad

    ★★★★★

    I heard of this film because it was apparently inspired by Adolfo Bioy Casares' The Invention of Morel. I can't say that the connection ever fully crystallized — but I enjoyed the film very much. The strongest link between the text and the film was a linkage created between us, the viewer, and the protagonist. As viewers, we are positioned in relation to the characters: observing a moment in time we could never be a part of, catapulted into a…