Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  All About My Mother 1999

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 21 Mar 2025

  i love almodovar, and ive always thought this was an impressive movie, but it wasnt one that sunk its teeth into my soul (skin i live in/volver/women on the verge were always my go tos) but tonight that changed.
  this rocked my world. i had seen it before, even recently, but i just locked tf in with it tonight. the intertextual references to Tennessee Williams, Gena Rowlands, Fassbinder, Bette Davis, Truman Capote, and more drove it home that i really…

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  The Little Girl Who Sold the Sun 1999

  ★★★★★ Watched 20 Mar 2025

  this was incredible. also saw this with a live score-i felt like the score was more involved w/ this short and it elevated it a bit better than the other one. but this was one of those things where the images alone are so moving that i can tell i will enjoy this just as much were i to watch it the way it was initially released/with the original soundtrack. great stuff

Popular reviews

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  Velvet Goldmine 1998

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 09 Jan 2022

  david bowie said “you can make your gay little movie. but dont mention me. but make it 😏 im not gay. i dont want to see your gay movie. but you should make it. 😏 you should call my old lovers i MEAN MY OLD FRIENDS and license their music. iggy pop doesnt mind if you say he’s gay. brian eno doesnt mind. JUST dont Mention ME, David Bowie 🕺 a person who is absolutely not gay”

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  Singin' in the Rain 1952

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 20 Mar 2025 2

  when you havent seen a classic film in 10+ years you simply must go to an afternoon matinee showing with an audience of parents and children. and you MUST clap with them when each number ends because youre so caught up in the thrill of the movies that typical movie going courtesies have ceased to matter. what! a! picture!