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araki sun, hitchcock moon, jarmusch rising ✨

Favorite films

  • The Doom Generation
  • Clue
  • Paper Moon
  • Dead Poets Society

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  • Go Fish

    ★★★½

  • Lady Bird

    ★★★

  • Possibly in Michigan

    ★★★★

  • Joy Street

    ★★★★

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  • Nowhere

    Nowhere

    ★★★★½

    the 4k restoration of everyone's nipples is immaculate

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  • Lady Bird

    Lady Bird

    ★★★

    kinda peeved no one told me that this movie might not really hit if your relationship with your mom is like really really fucked up

    I waited this whole time to watch because I thought that was the whole thing. I thought it'd be too hard. And, though I did find myself trying not to cry at the end, it wasn't because I felt moved by this film but because I felt so underneath it. So crushed beneath the usual…

  • I Used to Be Funny

    I Used to Be Funny

    ★★★½

    Felt very weird to watch an entire movie where the running joke is that Rachel Sennott's character is "old" but I guess that's where we are on the timeline now.

    When horrible things happen to you, the aftershocks can rush out and flatten your life in every direction. People don't know how to help or what to say. They make it weirder and harder for you to get over it. People center their own guilt or discomfort in a situation…

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  • The Headless Woman

    The Headless Woman

    ★★★½

    The beginning feels really chilling, as if you're about to be in for something horrific. I think I set my expectations too high, anticipating some kind of obsessive energy and terrifying conclusion, but this film is very subtle. The intentional framing of Vero in, but also out, of every shot is strikingly beautiful and creates a strong visual narrative and the bustle of everyone around her feels claustrophobic and confusing. By the end I understood, but I just couldn't help…

  • Yes-People

    Yes-People

    ★★★½

    I feel like people would be less harsh on this if it hadn't been Oscar nom'd. I thought it was an amusing peek into mundane life. The simple "dialogue" gave it a weird charm & I laughed out loud at the lady's long "Jáááááááá......" at the student butchering their music lesson.