dpw1845

dpw1845

Favorite films

  • Velvet Goldmine
  • Farewell My Concubine
  • The Servant
  • Dead Man

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  • Queer

    ½

  • Challengers

  • Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga

  • Mad Max: Fury Road

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  • Queer

    Queer

    ½

    thoughtless and condescending.

    i love 'queer.' burroughs' 'queer.' i love his language and his mindless brutality and serrated imagery. this film not only had none of that but felt ashamed of its foundations' author. sensationalising, gawking --- let's blare new order over lee shootin up, let's extricate bill's fluorescent internalised homophobia monologue and put it in a flattened, steak-tenderised dead carp of a scene and THEN put nirvana over it. i know all the 90s music is to capture the…

  • Challengers

    Challengers

    some egregious special effects but what thrills! watched it in a roomful of frat hopefuls and it was a wonderful experience. there was a standing ovation when art and patrick kissed. i thought it was beautiful when she slapped him and insulted him and told him he’d do well with a gun in his mouth. i hope there’s challengers on my university tennis team too. after all this was written by an alumnus…

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  • Black Dog

    Black Dog

    ★★★½

    saw this in a run down theatre in an abandoned mall. a real wonderful film that captures the texture of chinese cement. i really liked how it went from man vs dog to man = dog. the exploitative relationship between the townspeople and the dogs
    (dogcatchers selling them to farms) parallels the economic exploitation of the town (attracting businesses, ‘modernisation). how 二郎 (er lang) seems to be the only one tuned into this. the dogs being chased out by the…

  • The Grand Budapest Hotel

    The Grand Budapest Hotel

    dorian gustave h. sigh. it’s all too real.