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  Blood Shack 1971

  ★★★★★ Added 2

  Repetition. A key to certain artforms like music and architecture, but usually never associated with the art of filmmaking. What we're accustomed to is a story ebbing and flowing, an artificial sidestepping of lifelike form for something more conventionally engaging. From Tarkovsky to Marvel to John Waters, scenes that make up a film's runtime differentiate themselves radically from each other.

  Life ain't like that.

  Life is ultimately a pattern. Working and eating, drinking and sleeping, talking to the same people,…

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  mother! 2017

  ★★★ Added 1

  I'd say the first two-thirds of this film are a masterpiece in filmmaking. A very eerie exploration of the utter death of a home through surreal circumstances. What starts off as merely off-putting is morphed, with incredible suspense, to something truly uncomfortable to watch. The way in which these strangers slowly sink their presence into our main characters' lives is a beautiful display of filmic horror, how they make unoccupied rooms their own and treat this completely new environment as…

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  The Serpent's Egg 1977

  ★★★★★ Added

  So... this film. One of my favorite Bergman films. This... thing. This enigma. This pure... question of a film, a question I'm not exactly sure I can answer. While I deeply adore this work from the Swedish film god I can understand why many, many Bergman fans are quite cold on it, in that it's one of his darkest, strangest films, one that happens to be both a seedy Kafkaesque noir and a chilling study of German postwar paranoia. Expect…

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  3 Women 1977

  ★★★★★ Added

  No film has haunted me in the way that 3 Women has. Expanding upon the themes Ingmar Bergman explored in Persona (subjective identity being the main example), Robert Altman's masterwork steeps us into a world that is all-too familiar and creates a dream out of it. I've known all the characters in this film when I was a teenager drifting through my dead-end hometown, and we smoked behind the dilapidated dollar store and talked about what it meant to live…

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