Gem

Gem

Favorite films

  • Death Proof
  • The Descent
  • Possession
  • Inland Empire

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  • Tiny Furniture

  • Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes

  • Bringing Up Baby

    ★★★

  • Top Gun: Maverick

    ★★

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  • Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes

    Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes

    I only caught the end of the movie, kinda what ever. What I like about the series is it kind of has the right amount of uncanny valley

  • Bringing Up Baby

    Bringing Up Baby

    ★★★

    o look its the same house from ball of fire again

    they say howard hawks had a thing about repeating himself - reusing dialogue and secenarios - hard to imagine someone getting away with that today. goes to show how exhibition changes things over time

    cary grant doing the thinker pose over the intercostal clavicle - “I think this one belongs in the tail!” mhm

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  • Borat Subsequent Moviefilm

    Borat Subsequent Moviefilm

    the woman who survived the holocaust kissing borat while he is disguised as an anti-Semitic caricature - that was a very real very graceful thing to see

  • The Manchurian Candidate

    The Manchurian Candidate

    ★★★★

    Images from inside the hallucinatory diamond of How the 24 Hour News Cycle Makes Us Feel. Layers of surreality. Production design for the Shaw campaign captures the triumphant nightmare of a political discourse based on the virtue of “balanced” above all things.

    The classroom scen has my favorite Remme close up

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