Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Persona 1966

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 20 Mar 2025

  Ate an M&M McFlurry during the last ten minutes, as Ingmar Bergman intended!

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  Twin Peaks: The Return 2017

  Watched 17 Mar 2025

  “We are like the dreamer who dreams and lives inside the dream.”

  Reminded me of “Gold Soundz” by Pavement and the myth of Orpheus & Eurydice and the Martin Short classic Clifford.

  “I am the FBI.”

  It feels so triumphant when it happens, and then it doesn’t anymore.

  “Electricity.”

  Things cannot be unbroken. The beginning of evil. There is a pervasive sense throughout that everything is off. Everything has been split apart, and everyone is stuck in stasis. The scene at the bar…

Popular reviews

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  No Other Land 2024

  ★★★★½ Watched 06 Mar 2025 1

  Filled my heart with so much that I felt like bursting long after it ended. Cannot imagine defending the actions of the IDF, and looking at the one star reviews here, people really try.

  Modern life is often full of futile action and unending despair, but Basel Adra keeps going in spite of it all. I can too. That’s real bravery on his part. A better world is not out of reach. It just requires all of us. Maybe that’s idealistic, but I’d hate to believe in the alternate.

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  REFORM! 2024

  ★★★★½ Watched 19 Aug 2024

  A political party gripped by the same problem as asking too many in a group where they should all go for lunch.