"There are those who refused to believe, or only now and then. We survey these ruins with a heartfelt gaze, certain the old monster lies crushed beneath the rubble. We pretend to regain hope as the image recedes, as though we’ve been cured of that plague. We tell ourselves it was all confined to one country, one point in time. We turn a blind eye to what surrounds us and a deaf ear to the never-ending cries."
- Night and…
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Titicut Follies 1967
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Shaun of the Dead 2004
Just a perfect movie. Seeing Nick Frost’s orangutan impression in a theater made my day, likely my week. Nothing like it. I genuinely believed I was seeing an orangutan on screen for a few seconds.
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Avengers: Age of Ultron 2015
Knowing I’ll never make a movie as spineless and boring and misogynistic as this is almost as affirming as meeting my goat Todd Haynes last week and him asking to shake my hand as I was leaving. Great guy. Hate these fucking movies. Frankly as much a waste of money as that awful $300m Russo brothers garbage that just dropped on Netflix. Could’ve made Safe 100+ times with this much money.
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Revelation Road: The Beginning of the End 2013
Leland Palmer has better vibes than David A R White 💀
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Nope 2022
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From the early years of cinema, films have been portraying illusion as much as truth. Even only a few years after Eadweard Muybridge was making his early films like Sallie Gardner at a Gallop and his underrated but equally revolutionary classic Capybara Walking, people such as Alfred Clark or Georges Méliès were making films like The Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots (1895) or, of course, A Trip to the Moon (1902). The films from these early directors, who Scorsese would classify almost 100 years…
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Blade Runner 1982
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One of the most life-affirming movies ever made. Seeing the "tears in rain" scene in a theater again after weeks of dissociation was incredibly cathartic. Few watches I've had have impacted me like this.
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