jmartsev

jmartsev

Favorite films

  • Menace II Society
  • May December
  • Surf's Up
  • Career Girls

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  • All That Heaven Allows

    ★★★★

  • Fear City

    ★★★½

  • Carol

    ★★★★★

  • Four Days in September

    ★★★★

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  • All That Heaven Allows

    All That Heaven Allows

    ★★★★

    First Sirk! Simple plot but takes care of the details. Beautifully shot and well paced. Its melodrama perfected. I can definitely see how Sirk influenced Todd Haynes.

  • Fear City

    Fear City

    ★★★½

    Love Tom Berenger

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  • Texas Chain Saw Massacre: The Shocking Truth

    Texas Chain Saw Massacre: The Shocking Truth

    ★★★★

    So interesting to see how studios always fuck up horror films. They could never quite recreate the magic of the first one, cuz the studios really didnt know what made the first one very special.

  • May December

    May December

    ★★★★★

    Quite possibly the best movie of the year. Todd Haynes is a fucking legend. 


    Way too many notes but fuck it:
    -The bed scene is soo weird. She just starts crying. 
    -Natalie Portman is such a good actress in this. I think this is her best performance. Obvi the same for Julianne. 
    -The ways she’s so giddy to see the stockroom. Bro I thought she was gonna start taking her clothes off in there. I love that, that scene is…