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Favorite films

  • A Brighter Summer Day
  • Like Someone in Love
  • The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
  • The Limey

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  • Bringing Up Baby

    ★★★★★

  • Mickey 17

    ★★★

  • Black Bag

    ★★★★

  • To Catch a Thief

    ★★★½

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  • Hillary's America: The Secret History of the Democratic Party

    Hillary's America: The Secret History of the Democratic Party

    ½

    Film Neoconservatisme

  • Diary of a Shinjuku Thief

    Diary of a Shinjuku Thief

    This works in so many different modes--location-shooting, documentary, heavily staged and metaphorical scenarios, kabuki theater, faux cinema vérité discourse, musical performance, black and white and color--I found it difficult to make sense of but I was always fascinated. Sometimes a scene would seemingly bring clarity to everything only to send me reeling the next moment. The only film I can think of that feels comparable in terms of transgression and scope of its concerns is Godard's Weekend, and even that…

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  • La Ciénaga

    La Ciénaga

    ★★★★½

    The first time I watched this was missing from my diary--I went and found a Tone Madison article to confirm the date of the screening and that it was on 35mm like I remembered. I'd like to catch the 35mm screening of this at UW-Milwaukee tonight but I don't think I'll be able to. Highly recommend it, though, as much for the sound as the image. The trailer they’ve been showing suggests much more violent incident than the actual movie…

  • Game Night

    Game Night

    ★★★½

    😍Rachel😍 😍Mc😍Adams😍

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  • Hotel by the River

    Hotel by the River

    It was only a matter of time until someone vaped in a Hong movie

  • Les Vampires: Episode Two - The Ring That Kills

    Les Vampires: Episode Two - The Ring That Kills

    hate it when the people who control regular society and the people who control secret criminal organizations are one and the same