Favorite films
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Shit man I haven’t read the book but this was so dream-like, horror filled, and so intense in the best way.
The POV storytelling is really something special here. The writing is subtly pushing you towards the concept of trauma as endless repetition, of a cycle. The use of archival (yall know I’m a sucker for some archival) - chefs kiss. Marathoners running backwards as they talk about the horrors of Nickel - goddamn.
That twist made me choke and cry in the theater. Highly recommend.
One of my lesser favorites from Tarkovsky and yes, it is because I inevitably fall asleep for at least a third of the movie every damn time I watch it. It’s absolutely beautiful, the cinematography is incredible, the acting is great, and yet I end up honk shoo mimiming up a storm.
Wanna read the book.
Delighted.
How marvelous.
How do they get the pastries so crisp?!
You know when people are like - this meeting could’ve been an email?
This feature could’ve been a short.
Actually, there’s a good chance that if it were a short it’d land better. There’s this inkling of an idea that kind of almost makes it through and in some parts you’re like - fuck no don’t stop I’m almost there - but then it changes pace and you just…never get there. It’s very frustrating. I felt the same way about…