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  Pride & Prejudice 2005

  ★★★½ Watched 23 Mar 2025

  this is definitely an enjoyable (re)watch. the film does a pretty good job of remembering that jane austen is funny, and of underscoring the property laws of the time to highlight the fact that in reality marriage was (still is) a business proposal. i think the way that the film showcases pemberly, mr. darcy’s estate, as a key factor in lizzie changing her mind about him is actually done very well. because austen understood that it was all well and…

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  Gosford Park 2001

  ★★★★ Watched 23 Mar 2025 1

  julian fellowes, who wrote this screenplay, is a conservative peer. i’m sorry but how can you write gosford park and then become one of the tories?

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  Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me 1992

  ★★★★★ Watched 18 Feb 2025

  rewatched this on my last day of being 22. i feel so small. i feel so glad that this movie, so unfairly misunderstood, was made in spite of it all. evil is everywhere, but perhaps so is salvation.

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  Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 11 Jan 2025

  it is such a beautiful thing to spend years handcrafting clay models, to be patient enough as an artist to spend a day of creation and camerawork on one second of footage, to continue the tradition of one of the first cinematic technologies that ever existed. 

  it is wonderful for wallace and gromit to make their return in a film that is so staunchly anti-AI, a film that condemns the modern-day proliferation of idle technology. it is not quite curse…

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