John Hapsburg

John Hapsburg

Favorite films

  • Mulholland Drive
  • Lawrence of Arabia
  • Repo Man
  • Breaking Away

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  • Cop

    ★★★★½

  • Tin Men

    ★★½

  • To Live and Die in L.A.

    ★★★★

  • The Descent

    ★★★★

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  • Mulholland Drive

    Mulholland Drive

    ★★★★★

    I don’t know if I can ever write about this film adequately enough to match how much it moves me. I only feel called today to say that David Lynch was not only one in a million but one in humanity, a rare talent and, from what I have heard, a surprisingly pleasant man in spite of the often dark and unsettling moods running through his films. I know he was mortal but still hoped that he would always be…

  • The Rainmaker

    The Rainmaker

    ★★★½

    The most unrealistic part of this film is the legal representatives of a big multi-state insurance company giving up the chance to remove the case to federal court and so skewer a rookie lawyer with all the briefs and complex procedure of that forum

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  • Babylon

    Babylon

    ½

    Babylon has the gumption to congratulate itself for featuring a worn bombastic tone; stale storylines; a few successful jokes; allusions to far better films; multiple nasty scenes with piss, blood, vomit, bodily waste, and other things; noises and musical notes unpleasantly crowded together and blared forth earnestly, frequently, and unnecessarily; empty dialogue desperately shouted and infused with profanity; sex scenes and other provocative moments that seem banal now that society is, well, what it is; the forced cleverness of occasionally changing…

  • King of New York

    King of New York

    ★½

    King of New York is undeniable proof that the quality of a lazily-crafted film cannot be improved by merely adding significant amounts of nudity, violence, profanity and Christopher Walken.

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