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Favorite films

  • The Piano Teacher
  • Full Metal Jacket
  • The Substance
  • The Killing of a Sacred Deer

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  • The Substance

    ★★★★★

  • Gladiator II

    ★★

  • Elephant

    ★★★★★

  • Dream Scenario

    ★★★

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  • The Substance

    The Substance

    ★★★★★

    This is honestly just really good.. like idk something about it just got me which would have to do a lot with the fact that I saw it super late at night in a small theater with a reactive audience but it was just so disgusting in a way that felt so novel compared to what has been portrayed as disgusting in recent movies. Like the shot of the shrimp, the scene with a titty being regurgitated out of monstro…

  • Elephant

    Elephant

    ★★★★★

    I just love this movie so much.. definitely stems from my love of Polytechnique but this is just such an important movie as an American especially in the south where guns are so much more common than you know. No one acknowledges that the kids in your class who post themselves smiling with a dead deer are trained gun owners. I went to church with someone I used to know and within the opening line of his first speech he…

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  • Sauro Bellini

    Sauro Bellini

    ★★★½

    maria klonaris had such an eye, she knows exactly how to capture you with a shot and suck you inescapably into it. i love the appreciation of androgyny and the condition of naturality within her fixation on sauro bellini. 
    one of my personal favorite things about klonaris is how much she is able to communicate through so little dialogue. even if nothing is said, so much is understood. 
    to the untrained eye this is honestly probably really boring, but i really enjoyed it. maria klonaris deserves so much more appreciation than she receives. yet another female director whose work is unjustly overlooked.

  • Blue Velvet

    Blue Velvet

    ★★★★★

    i would gladly kill myself to resurrect angelo badalamenti for the opening theme of this movie alone

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