Favorite films

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  Gangs of New York 2002

  Watched 08 Feb 2021

  c-tier Scorsese

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  Kicking and Screaming 1995

  Watched 05 Feb 2021

  the upmarket IPA to Whit Stillman's champagne

Popular reviews

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  Leaving Neverland 2019

  Watched 07 Mar 2019

  the only thing I can really say, at an aesthetic level, is I wasn't sure about the fairly frequent soaring strings & sun-soaked landscape shots. but I think those don't belong in documentaries in general, let alone one on this subject

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  First Reformed 2017

  ★★★★ Watched 25 Jul 2018

  to Diary of a Country Priest as Taxi Driver is to Pickpocket. but more than that, the curious sense of an emergent 'spiritual' cinema of a planet irreversibly saturated by the artificiality of human history (already presaged in Bergman's Persona, Rivette & Tarkovsky's Solaris). not a cinema of 'inner space', but one in wh/ the narrative-/image-space is an undecidable threshold between internal & external (Schrader must have been watching Twin Peaks: The Return closely). the final hard cut is as rich as that in The Sopranos: Made in America

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