Emily

Emily

Favorite films

  • 2001: A Space Odyssey
  • Amadeus
  • The Royal Tenenbaums
  • Napoleon Dynamite

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  • Beyond the Hills

    ★★★★★

  • The Color of Pomegranates

  • The Babushkas of Chernobyl

  • The King of Comedy

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  • Black Narcissus

    Black Narcissus

    Colonialist Sound of Music with mean nuns. Cinematography was great, though.

  • Sisters

    Sisters

    ★★★

    Thanks, I hated it.

    I already dislike Malignant with a passion, but watching Sisters on which Malignant is clearly trying to riff, just makes me hate it more.

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  • Lovelace

    Lovelace

    ★★★

    It’s hard to discern a response to Lovelace that doesn’t contextualize it within the conversation around pornography, autonomy, and the way in which the talent that drives the adult film industry - female talent - still to this day benefits the least from the industry, and in fact are most likely to be coerced to participate, inadequately compensated, and not provided safe working conditions. The film also fails to address how Linda Lovelace’s later anti-pornography stance aligned fittingly with the…

  • The Shawshank Redemption

    The Shawshank Redemption

    ★★★

    Recently rewatched. I can’t put my finger on it yet, but something leaves me unsettled about this movie this time around. I feel like there’s a dishonest element to the whole incarcerial piece of it. Idk.

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