Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Mulholland Drive 2001

  Watched 17 Jan 2025

  Watching as an act of mourning.

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  Home Alone 1990

  Watched 21 Dec 2024

  Was this film always so deeply odd? Or were the late ‘80s/early ‘90s that forking weird? Like I watched the same film everyone is always referencing, right? Had also totally forgotten about John Candy as the traveling polka musician, who spends 49 weeks out of every year with his bandmates in (checks notes) the cargo area of a moving truck.

Popular reviews

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  Possession 1981

  Watched 21 Sep 2024

  Possibly one of the most perfect films I've ever seen. On top of unhinged performances by Sam Neill and Isabelle Adjani, there's marriage, sex, infidelity, madness, the Berlin wall, the cold war, horny tentacled spawn, pink socks, a clean midcentury apartment, a shabby chic prewar apartment, severed heads in the fridge, doppelgangers, the most beautiful orange telephone ever, that Heinrich guy and his mom, and the end of the world. Plus, Margit Carstensen! It breaks my brain to contemplate how many films have borrowed from this one.

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  The Bird with the Crystal Plumage 1970

  Watched 25 Sep 2024

  Visually and aurally beautiful. Especially the art gallery scenes. My first time watching this one, and hearing it was well done for a debut, I wanted to love it. But it was much sillier than Argento's other works. At times, it felt like an extended/live action episode of Scooby Doo. Tony Musante is smooth, and I loved the cameo by that guy/bad guy Reggie Nalder.