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Favorite films

  • La Dolce Vita
  • I Stand Alone
  • Scenes from a Marriage
  • A Separation

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  • Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me

    ★★★

  • Sweet Smell of Success

    ★★★½

  • Dune

    ★½

  • Pelts

    ★★★

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  • Through a Glass Darkly

    Through a Glass Darkly

    ★★★½

    "Through a Glass Darkly" is the first part of Bergman's trilogy of faith. Like the other parts of the trilogy, "Through a Glass Darkly" was staged as a chamber play. As a result the acting of the four actors (Harriet Andersson, Gunnar Björnstrand, Max von Sydow and Lars Passgård) takes on central importance while individual objects (the wallpaper or the shipwreck) also become symbolically charged.

    "Through a Glass Darkly" starts with a scene in which the viewer learns through a…

  • Brothers, Let Us Be Merry

    Brothers, Let Us Be Merry

    ★★★★★

    "Brother let us be merry" is a one minute short film directed by Ulrich Seidl. As part of the 2006 austrian Mozart Year, 28 Austrian filmmakers were commissioned to create a minute-long film featuring Mozart’s music.
    Ulrich Seidl was one of them. He decided on the slaves chorus from Zaide: „Brother, let us be merry and bravely defy adversity“ rings out while two dimly-lit men give themselves over to purposeless pleasure.
    They masturbate mechanically and monotonously. Paper towels stand ready…

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  • Red Eye

    Red Eye

    ★★

    Somehow felt Like "Collateral" but less impactful.

  • Thelma & Louise

    Thelma & Louise

    ★★★★

    Thanks for the Christmas Redemption Ridley 🎄

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  • Licorice Pizza

    Licorice Pizza

    ★★

    At first i really wanna love this movie but it is so bad in so many ways.
    I'll never understand people who really think that this is THE Hangout-Movie.

    It got nothing in common with movies like "Dazed and Confused" or "Once upon a time in Hollywood" which i would assume are not just pretty good Hangout-Movies but pretty good movies overall.

    Like how would anybody really wanna chill with Gary or Alana?
    They're unlikeable selfish characters with no real…

  • How Will You Die?

    How Will You Die?

    ★★½

    Thank you for reminding me of my own death. You know, this could start an existenzial crisis?