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  • Vertigo
  • Ballet
  • Repo Man
  • Mulholland Drive

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  • Michael Clayton

    ★★★★★

  • Mickey 17

  • To Live and Die in L.A.

    ★★★★★

  • Chaos: The Manson Murders

    ★★½

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  • Sisters

    Sisters

    ★★★★★

    Never hand someone a birthday cake with a butcher’s knife when they’re just waking up

  • Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives

    Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives

    ★★★★★

    Achitapong has his own casual cinematic language of the Thai everyday. Nonurban nonbourgeoisie Isan locals.

    This films involves temporal and ontological mobility. And fish fucking.

    He doesn't deploy Buddhism as religious teaching. The film uses Buddhist motifs, stories, and temporalities non-doctrinally for the purpose of rewriting political and sexual modernity.

    The dream sequence with still images is about the national history of communism and its violent suppression. Largely erased from Thai national history. It's a critique of official Thai history,…

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  • No Other Land

    No Other Land

    ★★★★★

    Opening weekend showing at Film Forum

  • Chaos: The Manson Murders

    Chaos: The Manson Murders

    ★★½

    Honestly most podcast interviews with Tom O’Neill are better than this. It’s well made, but doesn’t do justice to O’Neill’s research and lacks the feeling of Morris’s storytelling

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  • The Song of Styrene

    The Song of Styrene

    ★★★★

    Lmao. Imagine a Jacques Demy musical but replace all the actors with the pipes and infrastructure of a plastics factory

  • Chungking Express

    Chungking Express

    ★★★★

    the owner the midnight express deserves his own spin-off franchise