Lachlan

Lachlan

Favorite films

  • Mean Streets
  • Poor Things
  • The Master
  • Hour of the Wolf

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  • Saturday Night

    ★★★

  • The Man Who Wasn't There

    ★★★★

  • Phantom Thread

    ★★★★★

  • Eraserhead

    ★★★★

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  • The Brutalist

    The Brutalist

    ★★★★★

    Masterpiece. 

    No ideas. Pure life. 

    “is there a better description of a cube than that of it’s construction?”

  • It's a Wonderful Life

    It's a Wonderful Life

    ★★★★½

    “All you can take with you is that which you have given away” 

    Hark the herald angels sing
    Glory to the newborn king. 

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  • Saltburn

    Saltburn

    ★★★

    If this film was a person it would be that cynic who walks in on a room of smiling friends and imagines instead how they’re all secretly jealous or horny for each other. 

    Going deep doesn’t always turn up dirt. 

    The cast did all they could to make these characters shine but the plot insisted on being the only star.

  • The Zone of Interest

    The Zone of Interest

    ★★★★★

    To make a film about the most horrific tragedy in recent history is difficult, and some might claim impossible, although Jonathan Glazer has succeeded here with The Zone of Interest. And I say “succeeded” in a specific sense that I will try to clarify, for this very notion of the film’s “success” points to the issue of depicting the holocaust in anything other than a strict documentary fashion. 

    The question always is: if art is concerned with ‘beauty’, how does…