jdumanski

jdumanski

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I talk to myself in my reviews

Lynch, Von Trier, De Palma, Haneke, Wilder 🐐

Favorite films

  • Inland Empire
  • Dancer in the Dark
  • The Apartment
  • 8½

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  • Death of a Unicorn

    ★★★

  • Nymphomaniac: Vol. I

    ★★★★★

  • sex, lies, and videotape

    ★★★★½

  • The Great Escape

    ★★★★★

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  • Death of a Unicorn

    Death of a Unicorn

    ★★★

    Thought this had so much potential with the opening shot of Jenna Ortega hitting the vape listening to cocteau twins overlooking a beautiful landscape…

    Really zero dynamic characters in this made it pretty hard to like, I mean I get the eat the rich (or stab through them and tear their intestines out with a unicorn horn) but surely the “genius” buddy high on unicoke would have the ability to change a little bit!

    Still, pretty fun experience seeing this…

  • Nymphomaniac: Vol. I

    Nymphomaniac: Vol. I

    ★★★★★

    Really didn’t allow myself to acclimate into this world during my first watch, this is just amazing stuff. Despite the obvious extremely sexual imagery, it’s really edited very satisfyingly and precisely. I mean, that final montage is just unrivaled. Three different stories overlayed with specific coinciding sequencing mirroring the polyphony of Bach, what an incredible sentence to describe a scene. Another impressive moment was the short I made a jigsaw puzzle montage deconstructing Jerôme’s character into metonyms of small remembrances. Really…

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  • Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me

    Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me

    ★★★★★

    Rest in peace to the greatest filmmaker in the universe.

    And the angels wouldn’t help you, because they’ve all gone away…

  • Julien Donkey-Boy

    Julien Donkey-Boy

    ★★★★½

    There’s always a level of discomfort for the first couple scenes of Harmony Korine films where it’s unclear what’s happening and you have to decide to accept things for how they are. Once that happens though, the rest of the time is spent marveling at how beautiful and human the movie is. It’s very interesting how religion is used as a uniting factor between people that couldn’t be more different. The scene in the church when it pans out and…