Josh Hopkins

Josh Hopkins Pro

Slow cinema is the best cinema.
If I have a bad opinion about a film chalk it up as recency bias / just being a snob.

Favorite films

  • Stalker
  • Beau Travail
  • 2001: A Space Odyssey
  • Nostalgia

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  • Ichi the Killer

    ★★

  • All We Imagine as Light

    ★★★★½

  • Arthur

    ★½

  • The Conversation

    ★★★½

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  • The Sacrifice

    The Sacrifice

    ★★★★★

    The opening shot of Andrei Tarkovsky’s first film, Ivan’s Childhood, depicts a boy standing under a growing pine sapling as the camera slowly moves from the base of the tree to the highest needles of its highest branches. The final shot of The Sacrifice, Tarkovsky’s final film before passing at just 54 years old from cancer, bookends his filmography by depicting another young boy laying underneath a small pine tree while the camera slowly moves from the base of the…

  • Dekalog

    Dekalog

    ★★★★

    Dekalog as a whole is such a great idea for a film series and it is executed so incredibly well. Although I didn’t absolutely love every film in the series, I can say that all ten were exceptionally well made and came together to create such an interesting project. Several of the films of the series were exceptional, and even the worst films were still good. There were some phenomenal examples of editing across the series, excellent writing and acting…

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  • Ichi the Killer

    Ichi the Killer

    ★★

    A little too much for me.

  • All We Imagine as Light

    All We Imagine as Light

    ★★★★½

    Gorgeous cinematography and phenomenal soundtrack. This was incredible. Best of the year.

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  • Two Strangers Who Meet Five Times

    Two Strangers Who Meet Five Times

    I don’t think I was supposed to laugh as much as I did.

  • Flow

    Flow

    ★★

    Very pretty but felt more like a tech demo than a film.