Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  2001: A Space Odyssey 1968

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 31 Aug 2024

  The development of consciousness as a violent interstellar process enframed by the co-development of technology. 

  The Super Panavision 70 mm film stock and the ultrawide spherical lenses give many of the straight lines of the interiors an uncanny curvature. This curvature is mirrored (literally) in Dave’s space helmet and in the POV fish eye shots from HAL. HAL’s lens’ are pervasive but the most distorted.

  The signal emitted from the lunar monolith is extremely loud in the theater. We had…

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  Shadows 1958

  ★★★½ Rewatched 23 Oct 2023

  Cassavetes pre-empting the nouvelle vague and setting up a roadmap for the American independent cinema.

Popular reviews

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  Zack Snyder's Justice League 2021

  ★★ Watched 20 Mar 2021

  Laughed really hard at the police sketch of the intruder.

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  Vitalina Varela 2019

  ★★★★½ Watched 06 Sep 2019

  Mesmerizing in its tedium and singular artistic vision, my first Pedro Costa experience is one that immediately demands a rewatch. To quote critic (and girlfriend) Beatrice Loayza, "I've never seen anything like this." There is an image significance density and a complexity to the editing strategy that exceeds even Malick's opuses. In fact, Malick was a useful jumping off point in attempting to engage with Costa's radical subjective phenomenological approach to Vitalina's experience and memory. It's a portrait that is both highly constructed and seething with veracity.

  One of the best films of the year and a must see.