Chad Fjerstad

Chad Fjerstad

Favorite films

  • Possession
  • Altered States
  • The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
  • Boogie Nights

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  • Bobby Yeah

    ★★★½

  • The Heartbreak Kid

    ★★★★½

  • Joker: Folie à Deux

    ★★★½

  • Mickey 17

    ★★★★

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  • Bobby Yeah

    Bobby Yeah

    ★★★½

    I have no idea what actually happened but it was really gross and scary and absolutely marvelous to look at. A nice middle ground between Tool music videos and some fucked up animated movies like Where The Dead Go To Die, but more colorful than both.

  • The Heartbreak Kid

    The Heartbreak Kid

    ★★★★½

    "There's no deceit in the cauliflower"

    I can't believe I'd only known Charles Grodin as "the dad from Beethoven" for my entire life, up until today, when he had this legendary role in the bank all along (no, I haven't seen Midnight Run yet either).

    The Heartbreak Kid is a fantastically painful film experience. I'm pretty sure this features the worst honeymoon of all time. Grodin plays an ultimate representation of male impulse - immediately acting on every little desire…

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  • Portrait of a Lady on Fire

    Portrait of a Lady on Fire

    Though the trailer did not speak to me, I began seeing all the rave reviews, and more importantly remarks from friends whose tastes I trusted, along the lines of, "it's beautiful- you will cry", and "...might be the best movie I have ever seen".

    Well, I must say that not only do I not understand how someone would see this as one of the best movies they have ever seen, but I can't even comprehend how anyone would enjoy sitting…

  • The Public Woman

    The Public Woman

    ★★★★★

    I am so grateful my girlfriend pushed this movie on me. Zulawski's POSSESSION might be my favorite film of all time, but I'd never seen a trailer for this one, so I hadn't yet thought to check out his next film following 1981's Possession, which is this, The Public Woman.

    Now, Zulawski himself claims that he was asked to direct this movie by the producers who wanted to do an adaptation of Dostoyevsky's novel "The Possessed", but I am shocked…