MattStokes

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Favorite films

  • The Wayward Cloud
  • First Cow
  • Pather Panchali
  • Tokyo Story

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  • Eddington

    ★★★★

  • First Cow

    ★★★★★

  • 28 Years Later

    ★★★★

  • 28 Days Later

    ★★★½

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Che: Part One

Che: Part One

2008
★★★★ Liked Rewatched

Absolutely essential commentary on the Criterion release by Che biographer Jon Lee Anderson.

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Mandy

Mandy

2018
★★★ Watched 1

So this film is essentially a 2-hour music video for an 80s-era prog-rock anthem, but with much better acid, lighting and effects. I like the idea of it, and the moments that stand out, better than the experience of it in its entirety. Unfortunately, my expectations for the film were a bit high from what I'd heard about its uniqueness and absurdity and, as is often the case, I think my expectations may have distorted my experience.

I was immediately…

The Beach Bum

The Beach Bum

2019
★★★ Watched

This is both garbage and, for better or worse, a hyper-postmodern work of capitalist realism. I'm still unsure if Korine is critiquing late-capitalist malaise or just endorsing nihilism and hedonism as perhaps the only appropriate or available response. Regardless, I think it works as both and is similar to Spring Breakers in this way. I didn't think it was particularly funny and it tried my patience at times, but there was more to unpack than I was expecting.