jon burden

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Favorite films

  • Vive L'Amour
  • Oh, Woe Is Me
  • The Ox-Bow Incident
  • Inland Empire

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  • They Drive by Night

    ★★★½

  • History Is Made at Night

    ★★★★½

  • The Graduate

    ★★★★

  • Eephus

    ★★★★

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  • Ring

    Ring

    ★★★½

    a film about the importance of preserving physical media and sharing it with others.

  • Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World

    Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World

    ★★★★★

    biting and vitriolic and nasty as hell. like Godard if he spewed nothing but hot acid (who btw even manages to catch a stray from the ghoulish corporate shills in this.) there's no such thing as a post-apocalypse. we just droll on, passing by roadside graves for lost loved ones in front of billboards and hollowed out warehouses. a hopelessly cynical view of a rotted out civilization climbing over one another, paving over one another, begging to be put down…

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  • Eephus

    Eephus

    ★★★★

    a pastime somewhere between timeless and fleeting. modest, loving, vulgar poetry.

  • The Girl Can't Help It

    The Girl Can't Help It

    ★★★★★

    very fun and very funny, but man, that Julie London scene just destroys me.

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  • La Ricotta

    La Ricotta

    playing the wrong music at Jesus’ crucifixion is a really good bit

  • Hulk

    Hulk

    ★★★★★

    generational curse, generational anger. transformative trauma owed to the sins of the father, getting stronger the more it’s fought, fed, or forgotten.

    Ang Lee’s Hulk doesn’t hold back. it is a truly creative and inventive masterpiece, going above and beyond for a comic book adaptation, pushing the genre to what it could have/should have been: experimental, political, and profound. serving as a reminder of the responsibility and integrity of good science, an evergreen indictment of militant men coloring everything and…