Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Batman Returns 1992

  Watched 08 Jan 2024

  I hadn’t seen this movie but in the first grade I was allowed to watch clips of Michelle pfeiffer in it and was obsessed. I was catwoman for Halloween and this came with a wip. This is what I’m always saying about how I felt like a sexy child. When I would be sent to time out in my bedroom I would crack the wip over and over again until it had soothed me and I could return to the apartment at large. Really fun. One day it mysteriously disappeared….

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  For One More Hour With You 2002

  Watched 28 Jun 2023

  Gorgeous intro and Q&A by Laura Mulvey in person on using archival materials against the grain!! but purloined mother's letters and father's footage aside,,,, this movie devastates ..

Popular reviews

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  The French Dispatch 2021

  ★½ Watched 22 Dec 2021 1

  Review at the behest of Chance:
  Wes Andersen is at his least emotionally engaging and most politically confused here. Seems to think prison and police are quite jolly things, seems to think student activists are silly adventurists. A movie with a lot of political implications for someone who is so professedly apathetic. This movie is really hatable, it’s tediousness, it’s star fucking etc but I gave it some stars so I must not be a complete h8er. This movie is super…

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  Irma Vep 2022

  ★★★★ Watched 06 Aug 2022 1

  After episodes 6 and 7 I found myself walking around my apartment without direction, trying to articulate what I had seen, which was on the subtler side, and not being able to find that many words for it, instead just semi-consciously repeating “that was really good” to myself. There are commentaries I could probably make about it regarding reflexivity, desire, process, Frenchness etc etc but I don’t really want to. Maybe this is a film (because really, it’s not TV) that exists on an artistic plane, or a spiritual plane, not to be fully articulated.

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