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I have never seen a bergman film

Favorite films

  • Kwaidan
  • Original Cast Album: Company
  • Stop Making Sense
  • West Side Story

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  • Mickey 17

    ★★★★

  • Nickel Boys

    ★★★★½

  • Talk to Me

    ★★★★½

  • Atropia

    ★★½

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  • A Great Day in Harlem

    A Great Day in Harlem

    ★★★

    my definitive opinion of who in this photo has a "jazz name" and who does not

    Red Allen yes
    Buster Bailey yes
    Count Basie yes
    Emmett Berry no
    Art Blakey yes
    Lawrence Brown no
    Scoville Browne yes
    Buck Clayton banjo name
    Bill Crump: no
    Vic Dickenson no
    Roy Eldridge absolutely fucking not
    Art Farmer no
    Bud Freeman yes
    Dizzy Gillespie YES
    Tyree Glenn no
    Benny Golson no
    Sonny Greer no
    Johnny Griffin no
    Gigi Gryce no (tragically failed nickname attempt)

  • The Tragedy of Macbeth

    The Tragedy of Macbeth

    ★★★★★

    here is my shakesperean retelling of the pitch meeting joel coen had with a24

    Coen: My lady bade me film Macbeth anew.
    A24: And will thy brother join with you in this?
    Coen: Nay. His days of film are yore, he says.
    Our partnership has run its noble course
    and so alone I'll take the task.
    A24: I see.
    I trust your lady means to lead the troupe –
    A steadfast choice if ever one there were –
    But, Joel,…

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  • Mickey 17

    Mickey 17

    ★★★★

    If I had a nickel for every movie where robert pattinson is a slave in space i'd only have two nickels but that's still crazy. much better feeling of the two slave space movies for sure. also at one point I did say "challengers 2" out loud

  • Nickel Boys

    Nickel Boys

    ★★★★½

    in a last ditch effort to try and watch one or two more best picture nominees, I went to Nickel Boys alone at 9:00 last night, the last big screen showing in my city. I had just closed at work so I grabbed a beer and dinner by myself and thought about the things I knew about this movie in advance.

    I knew about Colson Whitehead and the pulitzer, I knew it was shot in first person perspective, and I…

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  • Feels Good Man

    Feels Good Man

    every time I see the video of richard spencer getting punched it feels like the first time


    (september 2020 edit: someone made a comment a while ago saying like, “oh so violence is ok if its people you don’t like?” and I deleted it bc i didn’t want to deal with that, but I would like to clarify: yes violence against nazis is fine)

  • Greener Grass

    Greener Grass

    ★★★★★

    whoever is responsible for coming up with the beck bennett pool water storyline deserves the nobel peace prize