Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Eyes Wide Shut 1999

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 30 Dec 2023

  One of my favorite Christmas movies.

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  Happer's Comet 2022

  Watched 28 Dec 2023

  A corn mystery fantasia on wheels. Also, go watch Ham On Rye while you ponder.

Popular reviews

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  Carnal Knowledge 1971

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 04 Aug 2023

  “I thought a study of two men flailing about and trying to find love—or what had been defined for them as love—was a legitimate topic for a film. Jules had wanted to see it on the stage, but I wanted it on film. I wanted close-ups; I wanted tight spaces in which lives were falling apart, and you could almost smell sweat and Arpege and Hask hair oil and hairspray and the metallic scent given off by old trays from which TV dinners had been eaten. I wanted—and I got—full garbage cans on the set of that film.”  — Mike Nichols