James Carrigy

James Carrigy

Favorite films

  • Ashes
  • Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom
  • Ocean's Twelve
  • Castle in the Sky

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  • The Robber Brothers

  • Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

    ★★★

  • Muse

    ★★★½

  • Mickey 17

    ★★★½

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  • The Robber Brothers

    The Robber Brothers

    Unable to review due to its fragmentary state. 

    But really top-drawer stuff in the stuff that survives, hearty proof of Russian cinema really starting to come into its own in 1912.

  • Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

    Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

    ★★★

    The Boys in the Band. 

    Har har, I know, but if I had a nickel for every handsomely mounted and well acted 2020 Netflix adaptation of a stage play that fails to match the raw tension and energy of its source material, then I’d have…

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  • The House That Jack Built

    The House That Jack Built

    ★★

    The new Lars Von Trier Film is a lot tamer than I thought.

  • An Odd Turn

    An Odd Turn

    ★★★½

    I think I also realised I was bi during major uncertain shifts in the world economy.

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