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  Pepi, Luci, Bom 1980

  ★★½ Watched 07 Mar 2025

  This is the first film by writer and director Pedro Almodóvar. Made during a time of shifting cultural expression and freedom it is very loose and comical, free, and encompasses a lot of pop culture as well as elements of other filmmakers like John Waters. He would go on to make more polished films, even within the zany and sexual comedies but this rough film still showcases the talent and the vision that would go on to define him.

  The…

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  Better Man 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 04 Mar 2025

  When I heard about the existence of this film back when it premiered, I wasn't too interested in this. Then people started talking about how good it is and I was intrigued. Then I saw Taylor Tomlinson talking obsessively about it and I decided to watch it. Based on the life of English singer Robbie Williams who I have been aware of for a long time, unlike Americans who are oblivious to things and people who aren't American. Williams' catchy…

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  Olive Kitteridge 2014

  ★★★★★ Watched 14 Nov 2014

  Oh good lord! How incredible, how utterly devastating, depressing and emotionally wrecking.

  Frances McDormand... such brilliance. Olive Kitteridge is a complicated and multi-faceted character. Bitter but not an evil person. Hard to love but even harder to hate. McDormand nails it, her performance is one of the best to come out in recent years. Probably her career best effort. I mean the entire ensemble is good (Richard Jenkins for instance is excellent as well). But the range in which McDormand…

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  Stalker 1979

  ★★★★★ Watched 24 May 2013 5

  Around the World in May-ty Days Challenge
  Movie #20 - Stalker (Russia)

  I am a great admirer of the shockingly amazing, Andrei Tarkovsky. I love and worship his work, he definitely knows his craft. While his work doesn't entirely resonate with me on an emotional or personal level per say, it always blows my socks off whenever I see it. I can spend hours trying to absorb the beauty that is there in every single shot. With his deliberately paced,…

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