Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Fallen Leaves 2023

  ★★★½ Watched 12 Mar 2025

  Really interesting, a sort of Finnish Brief Encounter. But if Finland looks like this I’m not sure I wanna go there

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  Mystic River 2003

  ★★★★ Rewatched 11 Mar 2025

  Clint always gets it right with human pain

Popular reviews

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  Blue Velvet 1986

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 01 Feb 2025

  Gorgeous 50s-ish Laura Dern eerily appearing out of dark nowhere is my favorite lowkey Lynchan moment

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  Carnival of Souls 1962

  ★★★★ Watched 13 Nov 2024

  What a little gem to rediscover. Barely a full-fledged movie (runtime around 78 mins), this eerie ghost feast sounds like a precursor for plotless and dreamlike horror movies with female protagonists. It strongly reminds me of Polanski’s Repulsion, or Altman’s Images, but it’s in turn influenced by Hitchcock’s work and German expressionism. There is a surrealist, Lynchan flavor all over and it’s clearly why contemporary cinephiles were eager to dig it out of oblivion. 
  Yet it’s barely a narrative feature: there is…

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