Karl Bjorkman

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Favorite films

  • Before Sunrise
  • Amadeus
  • Stalker
  • The Social Network

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  • The Last of the Mohicans

    ★★★½

  • Contagion

    ★★★★

  • Dunkirk

  • The Social Network

    ★★★★★

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  • Dunkirk

    Dunkirk

    From my Facebook post after a late opening night showing in 70mm. Nobody else was in the theater.

    “I occasionally get the chance to go and see a film by myself and tonight I had the privilege of doing just that. I think [Alissa Wilkinson at] Vox got it right when [she] said that Dunkirk felt "more like a symphony than a war movie.” Nolan orchestrates some of the most stunning shots ever put to screen that serve to show just how bleak, yet remarkable, this historical event really was. It's intense, terrifying, and it's also a masterpiece.”

  • Before Sunrise

    Before Sunrise

    ★★★★★

    When your favorite film is projected in 35mm at the Music Box, hosted by your favorite podcast (celebrating its 20th year) with the Filmspotting Family in attendance, you show up. An incomparable experience at the movies and the perfect end to a perfect weekend.

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  • The Umbrellas of Cherbourg

    The Umbrellas of Cherbourg

    ★★★★★

    We’ve been conditioned to expect certain things from musicals. Things like grandiose set pieces, grand gestures of love, or bright colors to suggest characters’ cheerfulness. When people sing, we expect melodramatic songs about timeless themes.

    But Demy takes us to places like the garage or the jewelry store or the train station. And most of the film takes place in characters’ homes or family shops. The most jarring realization I had with Umbrellas was that I wasn’t actually watching a…

  • Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles

    Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles

    ★★★★½

    "How could you know? You're not a woman."

    The perfect feminist counterweight to Vera Chytilova's manic Daisies. To borrow a thought from this week's episode of Filmspotting (#791: Tenet | I'm Thinking of Ending Things), if Daisies is concerned with exteriority, then Jeanne Dielman is concerned with interiority—each to their own radical degrees.

    Jeanne Dielman is a sparse, methodical, hypnotic accomplishment that urges us to look beneath the surface of a widowed mother's lonely existence. It feels strange to watch,…