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Favorite films

  • The Shining
  • Inside Llewyn Davis
  • Little Shop of Horrors
  • The Apartment

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  • Black Bag

    ★★★½

  • The Electric State

    ½

  • The Empire

    ★★½

  • Wings of Desire

    ★★★★

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  • The Electric State

    The Electric State

    ½

    Hollywood liberals will try to convince you there’s a thing called the Russo brothers. Joe Russo is a screaming, frightened dweeb who’s always showing up in Deadline complaining that a handsome jock named Marty Scorsese beat him up and took his lunch money. “Anthony Russo” has left no physical trace on Earth and by all indications is made up. Think about it: If The Electric State really had two directors, it would be twice as good as all other movies,…

  • The Empire

    The Empire

    ★★½

    Pour être honnête, je n'ai vu ça que parce que j'ai trouvé Anamaria Vartolomei sexy dans Mickey 17, donc j'en ai eu pour mon argent. Mais les retrouvailles inattendues des flics de P'tit Quinquin étaient aussi amusantes!

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  • Art Spiegelman: Disaster Is My Muse

    Art Spiegelman: Disaster Is My Muse

    ★★★

    Some tension between the unconventionality of Spiegelman’s work and the “full lifespan” biodoc format that rushes us along when we’d like to pause and learn more, but it does a great job of conjuring this world of underground cartoonists and immersing us in their creative milieu. Best parts are when individual panels from Maus get blown up on the big screen and analyzed in detail – learning about the artistic process is really interesting and you can catch compelling details…

  • Citizen Kane

    Citizen Kane

    ★★★★★

    🎉🎊 #1,000! 🎊🎉

    Kane doesn’t just collect art; he collects statues. He’s obsessed with them and it’s not hard to see why – what if you could freeze a crowning moment of greatness, of beauty, of glory and make it yours, keep it in your house, draw on its power? The movie’s full of strange low-angle shots, most notably in Kane’s argument with Leland after losing the election, forcing us to gaze up at him the way we look at…