Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Variety 1983

  ★★★★★ Watched 20 Dec 2023

  wow. I’d put this film in a line up with Taxi Driver and Cruising. A seedy NY night film about voyeurism that flips victimhood on its head. The perspective shots in the car to POV of the cashier booth of the porno theater make you reminisce about time you had absolutely no business belonging to yet yearn to return to. Nan Goldin playing herself behind the bar she worked at gives you a snap shot into a lifestyle of artists…

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  Suzanne, Suzanne 1982

  ★★★★★ Watched 30 Nov 2023

  One of the best documentaries to ever live. This intimate portrait documentary unravels the stories we tell ourselves about ourselves through the lens of our fathers. Billops uses peformative, poetic, and observational modes of storytelling to examine Suzanne and her relationship with her mother that create an environment for refusal to conform to generational trauma and stigma. This portrait of Suzanne and her family ages so gracefully and sits as a timeless piece. It’s a short that I wish was a feature. A masterpiece. A thoughtful blueprint for what style of refusal looks like.

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  Barbie 2023

  ★ Watched 30 Nov 2023

  Where to start…

  My friends and I came to watch Barbie at the end of summer/ start of fall, maybe that was our first mistake. Dressed in all black we went into the theater with our snacks and as the movie started I immediately began panicking. For some reason I ignored all the advertisements that this was going to be one big commercial for Mattel but between the persistent club music, the rapid basic marvel editing, the color correction that…