David Melnarik

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Favorite films

  • Close Encounters of the Third Kind
  • Fantastic Planet
  • Cinema Paradiso
  • Everything Everywhere All at Once

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  • Orphans of the Storm

  • The Howling

    ★★★½

  • The Happiness of the Katakuris

    ★★★★

  • McCabe & Mrs. Miller

    ★★★★½

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  • Nosferatu

    Nosferatu

    ★★★

    Some chilling imagery and grand performances, but it borrows so much imagery from Herzog’s ‘Nosferatu’ and doesn’t achieve the same kind of dread. Eggers wants to achieve the same kind of gothic love story of ‘Bram Stoker’s Dracula’ but it comes nowhere near it. 
    I’m sorry to compare the works but when those previous iterations are so good and easily available, it begs what this new ‘Nosferatu’ is offering.
    I was lucky enough to see a panel with Eggers following…

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  • Come from Away

    Come from Away

    ★★★★★

    Call me what you will, but a story about people coming together and taking care of each other makes me feel good.

  • The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr.

    The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr.

    After watching ‘The Quick and the Dead’ this afternoon I was suddenly in the mood for modern western serials and popped in my DVD for this show for the first time. All I really gotta say is “hell yeah” to the writers of the third Indiana Jones movie making a tv show in the same vein, I look forward to watching the rest.

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  • It's a Wonderful Life

    It's a Wonderful Life

    ★★★★★

    I cannot discern whether or not these are sad tears I am crying.

  • Rocky V

    Rocky V

    ★½

    *guy who has only seen Cars 3*

    This is exactly like ‘Cars 3’ if it was bad.