Favorite films

Pinned reviews

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  Rue Daguerre in 2005 2005

  ★★★½ Watched 02 Jan 2022

  Reading 30-year-old hate mail aloud to your cinephile barber is a big mood

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  The Docks of New York 1928

  ★★★½ Watched 20 Jan 2022

  I've seen von Sternberg shoot through screens, curtains, streamers, beads, lace, chain link fences, and plumes of smoke. I thought I'd seen it all. And then he goes and gives us a POV shot looking out through a crying character's tears.

Recent reviews

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  The Apartment 1960

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 31 Dec 2024

  "He's so cute. Five-foot-two, ninety-nine pounds --- like a little Chihuahua!"

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  Design for Living 1933

  ★★★★ Rewatched 28 Nov 2024

  "But it still rings!"

Popular reviews

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  Northanger Abbey 1987

  ★★★½ Watched 08 Jun 2023

  incredible vibes here

  the intrusion of the like, kate-bush-video-gone-giallo fantasy sequences resonates so well with Catherine Morland's essence

  in the moment of shared glee as Isabella says "isn't it horrid?" you can feel the ghost of the friendship they could have had

  northanger is a story about a sheltered teen navigating an unfamiliar social landscape with only the patterns of literature to guide her, and I think this adaptation captures the weirdness and disorientation of that experience

  more stylistically bold Austen adaptations please thanks merci beaucoup

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  Love & Friendship 2016

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 22 Apr 2021 1

  This may be the film adaptation that most gets Austen. The humor, the playfulness, the way that the romances function in support of broader social commentary, the interlocking of relationships. She has such a gift for perfectly treading that line of lampooning her characters without undermining their humanity, which is rare and is a gift shared by Whit Stillman.