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Favorite films

  • Heat
  • Moonlight
  • Parasite
  • Babe: Pig in the City

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  • A Confucian Confusion

    ★★★★★

  • Show People

    ★★★★★

  • Archangel

    ★★★

  • Taipei Story

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  • Show People

    Show People

    ★★★★★

    hilarious flick and the screening had an intro from a film historian and writer so I felt like I had a better understanding of the cameos and background of the actors that I wouldn’t have had going on blind.

  • Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me

    Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me

    ★★★★★

    this is actually my third time seeing it in a month in a half. it’s a lot to take in and after having seen the show both as a teenager and as an adult, it was an important part of the experience. 

    it is no way to see the show in the same light, I did not expect something so outcasted to be a pivotal part of the narrative and also expound upon the themes that S1 (as great as…

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  • Summertime

    Summertime

    ★★★½

    beautifully set and costumed, the vivid backdrop gave way to an endearing (although sometimes odd) pair of characters reeling from their midlife and sense of urgency to find the one they love. 

    every scene I felt my mind ping pong between the “he loves her” and “he loves her not” and so I think this did a great job at putting me in her shoes however high-heeled and bourgeois they might be. 

    whether the two would struggle to find what…

  • Chimes at Midnight

    Chimes at Midnight

    ★★★★★

    “Can honor set to a leg? No. Or an arm? No. Or take away the grief of a wound? No. Honor hath no skill in surgery then, no. What is honor?”

    hoping this film enters to the Welles and Shakespeare zeitgeists respectively.

    a beauty to see and tugs on the heartstrings in a way not many adaptations might have from this period in film history (maybe i’m speaking to personally tho lol). 

    hoping to see it again soon!