Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Salomé 1922

  ★★★★ Watched 20 Mar 2025

  are all silent films this expressive, stunning, and theatrical?

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  Wicked Little Letters 2023

  ★★★½ Watched 07 Mar 2025

  What a delight for the ears (still waiting for Peter Pettigrew to get punished in full)

Popular reviews

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  Turandot 1958

  ★★★★½ Watched 20 May 2024 1

  It’s Puccini, so the music is incredibly lush and gorgeous, but for some reason, Turandot never inspired great feelings of love (or even affection) in me, even though it was the first opera I ever saw live. But this production, in spite of the low-quality video, made me finally understand the pure beauty and majesty of this Puccini opera. Everything worked together in such beautiful synergy; the costumes and sets were stunning, and I loved the ingenious use of East…

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  The Name of the Rose 1986

  ★★★★ Watched 23 Apr 2024

  I’m Catholic, and this movie reminded me how gay Catholicism is. Mysterious, beautiful, erudite, transformative, ineffable — at times corrupt, unfortunately — yes, all and more are true, but it is also very, very gay.

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