Frank Ritz

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Favorite films

  • Twin Peaks: The Return
  • Eraserhead
  • Blue Velvet
  • The Wizard of Oz

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  • Twilight

    ★★★★★

  • Adaptation.

    ★★★★½

  • The Necro Files

    ★★★½

  • I'm Thinking of Ending Things

    ★★★★★

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  • Adaptation.

    Adaptation.

    ★★★★½

    I should've got my haircut.
    Why didn't I shave my face?
    Can everyone hear my dog barking?
    I'm just so exhausted from work.
    What can I do to pep up?
    Am I listening?
    Does this make any sense at all?
    Stay focused; don't just wait to speak.
    Should I have gotten super stoned?
    I hope no one sees my insane sweat stains.
    God my back hurts.
    I should really focus on my posture more.
    Gotta get a better recording setup,…

  • Better Living

    Better Living

    Well, I shared the link for this on the ol' LB a year ago; from one Christmas to another. The video has been unlisted this whole time as it was still in contention for some festivals, but that chapter on the film has fully come to a close, so now the film is fully available for public consumption.

    Watch it here

    I've appreciated all the feedback I have been able to get (both on and off LB), and would love…

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  • I'm Thinking of Ending Things

    I'm Thinking of Ending Things

    ★★★★★

    Kaufman’s Inland Empire; the crystallization project that just let it descend into a full on nightmare.

    Love it so so much. Could be better than Synecdoche… tbd.

    One of the best shot and edited films ever, with insanely committed performances, all for a hall of mirrors ass script of molecular disintegration. 

    “Other animals live in the present. Humans cannot, so they invented hope.”
    Then what does it mean to be hopeless?

  • Orion and the Dark

    Orion and the Dark

    ★★★★

    Charlie really did make a kids movie. Great! Tho I’m not sure PWH was the right casting choice… him and a few too standard beats/sequences hold this back just a little bit. But boy did I cry! And boy was I moved! And I sure will remember it and look forward to watching it again! My jaw literally dropped like, twice, and once I knew the ending and it happened, I was very happy and satisfied. Very thoughtfully layered in…

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  • Buffalo '66

    Buffalo '66

    ★★★★★

    This shouldn't work. It should be deplorable, convoluted, annoying, and pretentious. It should make me feel sick, I should hate this, I should never want to look at Vincent Gallo, and I should wash this away from my life. But I just can't. It just works. It's magical really. Brilliant performances all around, wild stylistic choices, and a moving tale of a horrible protagonist (that you somehow feel bad for (sometimes)) slowly learning to accept, take responsibility, and love. What…

  • Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind

    Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind

    ★★★★★

    If only we could like, not destroy the world; ya know?