ella wright

ella wright

film phd, film tech 

twitter & instagram: @ellwrig

Favorite films

  • Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
  • Little Shop of Horrors
  • Scooby-Doo
  • Top Gun: Maverick

Recent activity

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  • The Wild Robot

  • Heretic

  • The Brutalist

  • Megalopolis

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  • The Brutalist

    The Brutalist

    paul thomas anderson’s ‘there will be bauhaus’

  • Reservoir Dogs

    Reservoir Dogs

    ★★★★½

    still fucks. hardest directorial debut ever

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  • boygenius: the film

    boygenius: the film

    ½

    someone take the grain overlay away from zillenials 

    intensely intensely bland and desultory

    is my queer card revoked now

  • Nosferatu

    Nosferatu

    beautifully composed, lit, scored (VERY glad i saw this in dolby atmos) and intensely committed by lily rose depp and bill skarsgard. the problem is there’s little for them to commit TO. for example, herzog shot his opening sequence at the mummies of guanajuato museum with the mummified bodies of the victims of a cholera epidemic on display. murnau’s 1922 film evokes parallels of his post-war period and contagion: the transmissible sicknesses associated with rats in trench warfare. we’re four years…