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Recent reviews

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  Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe 1980

  Watched 02 Jan 2025

  Herzog has dished out many a resonating comment but I think I have my champion:

  “I’m quite convinced that cooking is the only alternative to filmmaking. Maybe there is also one other alternative that is walking on foot.”

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  Metropolitan 1990

  Watched 30 Dec 2024

  I’m unfortunately siding with the guy who’s never read Austen in an argument with a girl about Mansfield Park

Popular reviews

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  House 1977

  ★★★½ Watched 19 Oct 2024 2

  Had a panic attack at a slumber party when I was 10 that went a lot like this. Except this movie was so beautiful I didn’t notice anything weird was happening. I declare this movie normal. I think watermelon is overrated and that the melon motif was propaganda (brought to you by someone who eats a banana everyday.)

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  Y Tu Mamá También 2001

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 28 Oct 2023 3

  Jesus Christ, someone come scrape whatever feeling this movie detonated off from all over my brain wall. 

  I seriously just wanna talk about the absolutely brilliant narration for a sec. For the first half of the movie I would be confused every time there was a slight pause (kinda just thought something was wrong with my laptop) until the voice started rolling and opened my eyes to a character’s experience of the film’s event by unraveling their context. By the…