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Favorite films

  • It's a Wonderful Life
  • Fiddler on the Roof
  • Street Fighter
  • Fargo

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  • The Demon

    ★★★★★

  • Flow

    ★★★★★

  • Exists

    ½

  • Man Vs.

    ½

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  • The Demon

    The Demon

    ★★★★★

    Freely blending ethnographic documentary elements with a distinctly macabre storyline of possible demonic possession, Il Demonio (“The Demon”) follows the unraveling of the already unstable Purificata (Daliah Lavi, The Whip and the Body), whose psychosexual obsession with her former lover, Antonio (Frank Wolff, America America), is foiled by his recent marriage to a local woman. Enraged, Purificata places a curse on Antonio, beginning a rapid psychological decline that, as time goes on, takes on a much darker undertone.

    Writer-director Brunello Rondi,…

  • Flow

    Flow

    ★★★★★

    A work of wondrous, ravishing beauty, Flow (Latvian: Straume) serves as a sumptuous work of pure cinematic art, as a dark grey cat must discover how to survive a world abandoned by man and experiencing a massive flood, with his only partners being a quartet of fellow castaway animals.

    Latvian filmmaker Gints Zilbalodis, having already become notable due to his equally self-made project Away, spent five and a half years working to bring the project to life, using the free…

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  • Leo the Lion

    Leo the Lion

    ½

    God is dead.

    We have killed Him.

  • Tord and Tord

    Tord and Tord

    ★★★★★

    The eerie, stop-motion animated love child of David Lynch’s Rabbits and Ingmar Bergman’s Persona, Niki Lindroth von Bahr’s ten minute short film is a strikingly unique dark fairy tale, where a fox by the name of Tord finds that a rabbit, also named Tord, has moved into the apartment next door to his.

    Animated, written, and directed entirely by von Bahr by herself, Tord and Tord is a deliberately ambigious film, as we only ever have a bare minium of sets,…