Loren Peterson

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Favorite films

  • Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
  • Kiki's Delivery Service
  • Midsommar
  • Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

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  • Sherlock Jr.

    ★★★★½

  • Petite Maman

    ★★★★

  • The Red Turtle

    ★★★★½

  • Possession

    ★★★★★

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  • Antiviral

    Antiviral

    ★★★½

    Holy fuck this might be the most personally triggering horror film I've yet to see. I've had skin and bone marrow biopsies, more blood draws and infusions than the amount of family therapy sessions the Cronenbergs will ever attend. I've felt like an experiment under examination while a prenacsent immune system engrafted itself to me, its in-patient host.

    Brandon's direction is so inspired. No moment is wasted between scintillating scenes of bio-eroticism to build something more intimate than suspense, a…

  • Bottoms

    Bottoms

    ★★★★½

    It's over for men. I'm sorry but Emma Seligman is just too funny clever and sexy.

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  • Petite Maman

    Petite Maman

    ★★★★

    This lady just really gets making movies

  • The Red Turtle

    The Red Turtle

    ★★★★½

    So simple and profound.

    I think my takeaway this time was a reminder that humans have and will coexist with other animals, we have to.

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  • Lolita

    Lolita

    ★★

    Watched this because I've been listening to Jamie Loftus' "Lolita Podcast" which goes extremely in depth with this infamous novel and story and it's cultural relevance. I had avoided this adaptation because I had heard only mediocre things about it, and I have to say especially with the context of just the first two episodes of the comprehensive podcast (I have not yet read the book but will have to soon,) I think this version of the movie fails in…

  • Come and See

    Come and See

    ★★★★★

    Been putting this one off for way too long. This movie is a reminder that war is not something we can go to or come back from. War is something that happens to people and it's something people do to each other. It occupies land and kills resistance. War is rape. It is insisting you are human to those who believe otherwise. It is humanity's song.