Favorite films

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  Mickey 17 2025

  ★ Watched 14 Mar 2025

  gmod machinima energy. not sure who this is for. maybe kids?

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  In the Mouth of Madness 1994

  ★★★★★ Watched 12 Mar 2025 4

  decartes and foucault's chain of airport novels. knew it couldnt have just been the late night highway shots but something here is so lynchian (not in the metaphysical sense but the opposite; universal, dependent, atmospheric, the senses subjected wholly to Everything). the individual is cosmic, the cosmic is individual, the cosmic is biological

  the Christian image, couples therapy, burned and melt into unholy flesh . not as atheistic as it is "belief is reality", which naturally raises questions about whether…

Popular reviews

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  Nosferatu 1922

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 14 Jan 2025

  real drama, real horror--the hunched posture of castles and manors and cities and asylums, rendered the same, barely separated in time and space. everything is stark, everything is volatile. romance, grief, illness, and death, separated by light, shadow, and minutes. cinema: romance and horror

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  Anora 2024

  ★★ Watched 01 Jan 2025

  best parts are when ani and the armenians are walking around town looking for ivan, nails the drunk-and-kinda-sick stage of town , and the looking-for-something/somewhere. its a shame she had no depth beyond a shallow and almost disdainful display of her home and flatmates. these big oppressive structures compound into a narrative of individual tragedies. alot of shallow (and) liberal stuff here. the slapstick was good. liked the lenses