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  Cruising 1980

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 29 Jul 2022 3

  [Sitting down in a movie theater to watch my favorite film.] Somehow sadomasochism feels good in a place like this.

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  The Return of the King 1980

  ★★★½ Watched 15 Mar 2025

  “Ugh, folk songs” says film review platform of an adaptation of a novel whose characters could break into pages of lyric verse on the occasion of remembering a particularly good dump they took once, before the end of the Third Age. Not as good as The Hobbit, but a lot of that is because hat they’re trying to do is literally impossible, trying to adapt about half of Return of the King — about a sixth of LotR’s interwoven narrative,…

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  Lynch/Oz 2022

  ★★½ Watched 13 Mar 2025

  Boldly asks the question “what if the conversation you might hear after a screening of Wild At Heart magically became a YouTube video that somehow got distributed by Janus Films?” and comes to no special conclusion you couldn’t reach from a less pedigreed video essay or podcast. You’ve really got to bring it if you’re gonna do a documentary on such visually distinct filmmaking, but Lynch/Oz isn’t strange or stuffed with weirdos unless you still find John Waters, an exceptionally…

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  The Hobbit 1977

  ★★★★ Watched 26 Jan 2023 4

  Rankin/Bass, completely unconcerned with making Middle Earth fuckable, put a bunch of twisted freaks on screen and play the fuckin’ hits from The Hobbit, accompanied by the kind of 1970s folk that used to make me think that I hated folk music (because I was, once upon a time, a big dum-dum). It’s a fascinating amalgam of various fantasy styles, somewhat rough and ready due to its being produced for television, and guess what? It fucking ROCKS. G-d what I…

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  The Elephant 6 Recording Co. 2022

  ★★★★½ Watched 08 Apr 2023 10

  Man, a lot of complicated feelings about this. I’m moving to Durham in July, nine years and eleven months after I moved to Athens to pursue a PhD in poetry, which was something I started doing by writing lyrics to Elephant 6 instrumentals, snatching bits and pieces from liner notes and the like. There were other influences, but E6 was pretty distinct. I bonded with friends over their music, scoured Shake-It Records in Cincinnati for CDs with the E6 logo…