Ian Thomas

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Favorite films

  • The Blues Brothers
  • Elf

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  • Mulholland Drive

    ★★

  • Opus

    ★★

  • Black Bag

    ★★★★

  • Anora

    ★★★½

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  • Mulholland Drive

    Mulholland Drive

    ★★

    I think I get why people like this, but it ain’t for me.

  • Opus

    Opus

    ★★

    It’s fine. It’s not for me. Cool dance music though.

    It waits until the very end to start saying something interesting (to me), I wish that had come much earlier, so it could’ve been explored in more depth.

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  • Anora

    Anora

    ★★★½

    This is a really funny movie for how heavy it is. 

    It’s also spawned some really great conversations - about both lacking and taking agency and respecting and accepting what is done with agency even if it makes one uncomfortable, about who we trust to tell certain stories and the role proximity to the truth plays in that trust and allowance, about the place of roles like intimacy and stunt coordinators in movie making and thereby the double role of…

  • September 5

    September 5

    ★★★★½

    God the more I think about this, the more I love it.

    Die GANZE WELT schaut hierher. Auf unser München.

    September 5 is captivating from start to finish. You’re dropped right into the control room, and the way it’s shot keeps you immersed the whole time. The set, especially the technology (all of which is apparently fully functional), and production design generally is fantastic. The actors play the characters expertly. Most of all, the writing and overall storytelling is just so good.…