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Favorite films

  • Orpheus
  • World on a Wire
  • Stalker
  • Emperor Tomato Ketchup

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  • Pola X

    ★★★★

  • Youth of the Beast

    ★★★½

  • Branded to Kill

    ★★★★

  • Tokyo Drifter

    ★★★★

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  • 3:10 to Yuma

    3:10 to Yuma

    ★★★½

    Such the gay cowboy buddy flick.🤣

    van Heflin leaves his wife, abducts Glenn Ford, and holds him hostage in a bridal suite. They evade Ford's jealous gang, hop a train together, and ride out of town to live happily ever after. Fin.

  • They Drive by Night

    They Drive by Night

    ★★★½

    Incredible. Starts out as a truck-driving Grapes of Wrath and whipsaws into a wacky Sunset Boulevard.

    In the end, the scrappy working-class fella gets the company & his gal. It only cost Humphrey Bogart his arm.

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  • Emperor Tomato Ketchup

    Emperor Tomato Ketchup

    ★★★★½

    Came to this film from a reference by Stereolab. Stayed for the lo-fi absurdist Pasolini/Anger/Jodorowsky vibe. While most of the contemporary Japanese political references and allusions flew right past me, this still seemed a provocative, if haphazard, critique of power. Like Pasolini's Salo, Terayama uses explicit sadism and sexuality without restraint.

    The soundtrack in combination with the blown-out, monochromatic cinematography create a hazy, nostalgic fever dream of a forgotten documentary. If you are a fan of experimental, transgressive cinema history,…

  • Michel Foucault: Beyond Good and Evil

    Michel Foucault: Beyond Good and Evil

    ★★½

    A bald guy in a white turtleneck slowly pacing the paint-peeled hallways of a decrepit hospital or asylum. A dramatization of a mad "Artaud". Kinda, sorta, maybe freaking out; but, actually just knocking some papers around. "Shocking" clips of electroshock procedures and the drooling insane patient.

    A frothing rant from Camille Paglia, unironically, calling Foucault a fraud. Excerpts of Micheal Douglas in Falling Down, shooting and punching things. Sincere talking heads speculating seriously. Obligatory clips of Paris '68. A dancing…