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Favorite films

  • The Grand Budapest Hotel
  • Lawrence of Arabia
  • Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
  • Grave of the Fireflies

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  • My Dinner with Andre

    ★★★★

  • Reservoir Dogs

    ★★★★

  • Band of Outsiders

    ★★★★½

  • Persona

    ★★★★

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  • My Dinner with Andre

    My Dinner with Andre

    ★★★★

    I get it, but I don't really get it.

  • Reservoir Dogs

    Reservoir Dogs

    ★★★★

    Are all scum of the earth so likeable? Do you have to be likeable to be in the mafia? An undercover cop?

    "Look, what the fuck was I talking about?"

    "They got what they deserved"

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  • There Will Be Blood

    There Will Be Blood

    ★★★★★

    Deep within the Earth, flows the river Styx. It's darkness is raised to the kingdom of Heaven by the bucket-full. Or the body-full, whatever comes up the rope. What is the cost of sanctity? "Oil prices" or "Quail prices"? There is little pity for those who so brazenly transgress against the Lord's will but its "one God damned, hell of a show." The ichor corrupts all it touches and hides this land from God's light. "The Lord cannot hear you…

  • Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind

    Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind

    ★★★★½

    An environmentalist's anime if I've ever seen one. More Ghibli naturalism, and one of the grimmest worlds I've seem them create. When reality is cold and harsh, we look to stories of hope and light in the darkness. I think that there are some among us now that hope for nature to be a brazen as it is here, in order to repair the damage humans have done. "There is no reason to live if our lives depend on a monster". If only, some compassion and understanding could have such effects back home.

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