CinematicPhilistine

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Favorite films

  • Joe Versus the Volcano
  • Ferris Bueller's Day Off
  • The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
  • Ordet

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  • Trap

    ½

  • The Thin Blue Line

    ★★★★½

  • The Match Factory Girl

    ★★★★★

  • You've Got Mail

    ★★★★★

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  • Trap

    Trap

    ½

    I’ve been off the Letterboxd grid for a long time.  Not that I haven’t been watching movies, I just haven’t been logging them.

    However, having finally gotten around to warming my hands over the dumpster fire that is Trap, I felt that it was time to break the silence.

    Night, buddy… Why?  You’re better than this.

    Do whatever you gotta do… rewatch your early films, find your happy place, subscribe to MasterClass… I don’t know, man, but whatever it is, figure it out and get back in the game.  I miss you 💔😢

  • The Thin Blue Line

    The Thin Blue Line

    ★★★★½

    The salesman witness: “As a salesman, you develop a sort of total recall ability…”

    Also the salesman witness, sixty seconds later: “He had approached the car… uh, yeah… wait a minute, let me think… yeah, he had approached the car, I think, maybe…”


    These stories of wrongful convictions really make you think hard about the kind of company you keep… and whether or not you ever want to travel south of the Mason-Dixon Line. 😬

    I’ve been meaning to watch…

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  • The Pez Outlaw

    The Pez Outlaw

    ★★★★½

    Always be yourself.

    Unless you can be The Pez Outlaw…

  • Made You Look: A True Story About Fake Art

    Made You Look: A True Story About Fake Art

    ★★★½

    I was familiar with the story of Glafira Rosales from American Greed.  But this went into way more depth on Ann Freedman, which was very interesting.  For a few minutes, you almost feel bad for her… until you begin to see her shocking lack of integrity.  I don’t think she was ever ‘in on it’ with Rosales and the others.  I just think she was an easy mark because of her own greed and unbridled ambition as the first female…