julian3

julian3

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  • Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
  • Paris, Texas
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  • Magnolia

    ★★★★

  • A Serious Man

  • Kinds of Kindness

    ★★★½

  • High School

    ★★★★½

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  • Kinds of Kindness

    Kinds of Kindness

    ★★★½

    Yeah sure okay whatever. Lotta boring stuff in here mixed in with the tier-one weird wave sicko shit. Glad none of these got stretched into a feature but not mad about them either.

  • High School

    High School

    ★★★★½

    wiseman kick incoming

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  • The Northman

    The Northman

    to make the witch, robert eggers read john winthrop’s diaries for weeks on end because he wanted to make sure the vernacular of puritan fanatics sounded fluid and natural to contemporary audiences. to make the lighthouse, he read sarah orne jewett’s accounts of lighthouse keepers in massachusetts so that he could synthesize the myth of prometheus and the rime of the ancient mariner into a two man show done entirely in maritime slang.

    then he made the movie with the…

  • Challengers

    Challengers

    ★★★★★

    When I was 13 I went to a tennis camp at Stanford with a girl I had a crush on. Hyped myself up for weeks beforehand. Ended up fumbling the bag completely and barely talking to her the whole time. Not a fond memory or anything like this movie. My most vivid memory is when my bunkmate told me he didn’t hate Obama he just thought it was weird to have black president. 

    Anyway, maybe I’m being nostalgic but this was probably the most exciting movie I’ve seen all year. Might go see it again.

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