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  The Sniper 1952

  Watched 26 Jan 2025

  The only noir male, which means the only modern (urban) man. Repressed homophobia/ homosexuality, maladaptation to loss/lack of supremacy, desire for/fear of emasculation. Nighttime in San Francisco is purgatory, it’s acidity and isolation. Script tries to wring an Important Social Issue out of it and pleads for Understanding of a lower order than what’s already there but it can’t or doesn’t overshadow the good

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  Within Our Gates 1920

  Watched 23 Jan 2025

  throughout the film micheaux inserts (fictionalized) media clippings that contravene narratives we have seen, developing distrust in us, but he also deploys them as records of religious scripture and US history… if the whole project is about the duplicity of media in general, the self-reflexivity of this is punctuated by a particular moment where, in a flashback (already removed from objectivity), we see the killing of gridlestone as it “really” happened, and then we see Efrem’s editorialized version; the images…

Popular reviews

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  Strawberry Mansion 2021

  ★★★★ Watched 02 Oct 2021

  doesn’t always know when to stop, and occasionally is transparent in its leaning heavily on famous influences (notably lynch), but most of the time i don’t mind because its concept and so many of its images fit perfectly within my tastes, and because a lot of its ideas and little details mirror things from my own dreams to an uncanny level

  this is also the first movie i’ve ever seen at a film festival, which is very cool and good and i enjoyed myself a lot

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  LEGO Bionicle: The Journey to One 2016

  Watched 07 Oct 2020

  Everyone memes the Bionicle toys, but to me, and to a lot of people, Bionicle was so much more than just a line of LEGO products. There was a world there. A huge, expansive, detailed mythos. Bionicle went far deeper than the toys. The toys were vehicles for this enormous and elaborate and beautiful story. The Bionicle universe contained so many locations, so many characters, so many fine details, made-up languages, and it was all completely internally consistent. From day…