John Marciante

John Marciante

Favorite films

  • RoboCop
  • The Big Lebowski
  • The Devils
  • Alien

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  • Kraven the Hunter

    ★½

  • The Last of the Mohicans

    ★★★★

  • Heat

    ★★★★★

  • Juror #2

    ★★½

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  • Kraven the Hunter

    Kraven the Hunter

    ★½

    Waitaminute. Sony’s final Spider-man villain is named Kraven? I’ve been calling him Crandall!

  • The Last of the Mohicans

    The Last of the Mohicans

    ★★★★

    Look, this was the only way Michael Mann could express his newfound love of hiking.

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  • Nosferatu

    Nosferatu

    ★★★★

    Has nothing new to say with this story, but really well made. I loved Eggers’ trick where he moves the camera through a threshold prior to the character entering, pulling the viewer as via vampire hypnosis, sometimes augmented by cutting geography between the start and end of the camera move. He’s good at movies!

    I’m not sure Eggers is attempting to communicate anything with this — and it’s a problematic aspect of vampire mythology stemming from xenophobia (bad!) as compared…

  • The Conversation

    The Conversation

    ★★★★★

    Appropriately, the editing in this film is simply astounding. I bet Coppola was so fucking mad at whoever stole Best Director and Best Picture from him.