jburkey3

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Favorite films

  • Lost in Translation
  • Princess Mononoke
  • Portrait of a Lady on Fire
  • Cold War

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  • No Other Land

    ★★★★

  • I'm Still Here

    ★★★★★

  • The Seed of the Sacred Fig

    ★★★½

  • The Fall Guy

    ★★★★

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  • Phantom Thread

    Phantom Thread

    ★★★★★

    Q: Why do we love Phantom Thread?

    A) The Music
    B) The Dresses
    C) The Breakfasts
    D) The moment when Reynolds says, "Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick"
    E) All of the above

    About a quarter of the way through our two leads are eating dinner together and Reynolds gets up from the table and says, "I think it's the expectations and assumptions of others that cause heartache." Of course this is true for any budding romance however, Alma…

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  • I'm Still Here

    I'm Still Here

    ★★★★★

    Was afraid to breathe and therefore reveal to everyone in the theater that I was sobbing

  • We Live in Time

    We Live in Time

    ★★★★

    A man and his stopwatch

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  • Adventure Time: Distant Lands

    Adventure Time: Distant Lands

    ★★★★★

    Adventure time is an investment. Ten long seasons with episodes that lead to nowhere and no overarching story means that it is not for the flaky. This is a show where you realize the world is changing and characters are growing after they have already changed/grown. All adventure time is, is good times. This is reinforced even more with the life affirming surprise at the end here. Even as things change(whether it be good or bad) good times can persist.…

  • Normal People

    Normal People

    ★★★★★

    This is difficult because I have never responded to watching anything the way I felt watching this. Growing up I always had methodical way of thinking about how people ended up together and how people went about trying to find who they would end up with. Concrete relationships were all the rave and this caused me (and probably many others too) to believe that it was the only way to go about becoming intimate with someone. In my mind you…