jad

jad

kino enthusiast or:
just a simple man trying to make his way in the universe (of film)

Favorite films

  • Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
  • Nosferatu the Vampyre
  • Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
  • Dune: Part Two

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  • Eraserhead

    ★★★

  • My Best Fiend

    ★★★½

  • Goodbye, Dragon Inn

  • Pink Flamingos

    ★★★

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  • Eraserhead

    Eraserhead

    ★★★

    kill dat fetus. get dat fetus. 
    the eraserhead baby is the cutest thing
    sacrificing one's head for an eraser.
    i still don't know what it is about but who cares? it's a trip, a journey. a nice donut.
    I have read todd mcgoawn's analysis of the film which allocates it to some allegory about produciton or something like this idk. i don't fully buy it even though it blew me away when i read three years ago.
    it is about poeple surviving in a post nuclear war? the horrors of fatherhood? abortion? following your desires? no idea. doesn't matter. who cares.

  • My Best Fiend

    My Best Fiend

    ★★★½

    the gayest thing a man can do is make a documentary about his f(r)iendship with another man 
    Herzog and Kinski walked so Scorsese and DeNiro could run

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  • Mulholland Drive

    Mulholland Drive

    ★★★★★

    fuck
    this is what dreaming on SSRIs feels like

  • Men

    Men

    ★★★½

    best snow white film ever!

    JESSIE BUCKLEY is incredible. 
    this film treads all the lines of pretentious film student to master filmmaker to peak A24ness (in the superficial ah a24 distribute art horror so a24 stands for art horror style). 
    some of it worked for me, a few things didn’t. the set-up was a bit too drawn out.
    i liked the final act and it made me feel better about things i disliked. many moments made me curse because what…