Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  The Adventures of Prince Achmed 1926

  ★★★★ Watched 01 Mar 2025

  With an accompaniment by Elf Freedom, highly recommend

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  The Elephant Man 1980

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 16 Jan 2025 1

  David Lynch died today. His art has helped me become the person I am, but I watched The Elephant Man because it’s the one of his that truly makes me sob. I can’t imagine a film Tod Browning would appreciate more.

Popular reviews

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  Love Machina 2024

  ★★ Watched 23 Jan 2024 1

  Love Machina is about too many subjects to be meaningful about any of them. It presents everything at face value without investigating the consequences of what the talking heads are opining about. The movie is desperate to articulate on the worst themes of Interstellar, trying to create connections between love, consciousness, and the futurism without recognizing at what is right in front of the lens. Just watch the series finale of How To With John Wilson instead.

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  Joker: Folie à Deux 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 09 Oct 2024

  “To me, bad taste is what entertainment is all about…But one must remember that there is such a thing as good bad taste and bad bad taste…To understand bad taste one must have very good taste. Good bad taste can be creatively nauseating but must, at the same time, appeal to the especially twisted sense of humor, which is anything but universal.”
  -John Waters