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festooner

Favorite films

  • Syndromes and a Century
  • Thief
  • Rumble Fish
  • The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On

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  • Zardoz

  • Mickey 17

  • The Swimmer

  • Amadeus

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  • Zardoz

    Zardoz

    Not a total slam dunk for me but I gotta respect it for many reasons. It's incredible what it manages to achieve under budget constraints. It's a high concept big swing rejection of action sci fi tropes. I got a lot of entertainment just out of watching Connery in this role, there's no shortage of ridiculous scenes that are performed with the utmost sincerity and professionalism from all involved, though with him every now and then I really thought I…

  • Mickey 17

    Mickey 17

    Way too heavy handed in so many aspects. The voice over narration was particularly egregious. Zero respect for your intelligence. Don't know if it was the source material, studio meddling or what. That immediately put me off and it never recovered.

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  • Challengers

    Challengers

    Wow, I really did not expect to enjoy this as much as I did. For me, it's hard not to like a film, especially given the contemporary landscape, that gets so creative with the camera. Add in a killer score and I'm pretty much already there. But there's a lot of substance here too, individual competitive sports as a medium for character development, the literal battle of two different personalities (really three in the case of this movie) has some…

  • Love & Pop

    Love & Pop

    With this film and Inland Empire re-entering the public consciousness I'm praying for future filmmakers to take
    up the mantle of digicam

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