Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  The Brutalist 2024

  Watched 20 Feb 2025 2

  A few random thoughts;

  Oddly grown-up for an American film post 1970s
  European sensibilities, yet thoroughly American
  The Fountainhead without the ideology
  1970s set in the 1950s
  A cold warmth
  Unsettling
  Dreamlike in a smothering way
  Askew co-depended relation with the viewer
  Sympathy for the plight of the character, but leaves one cold at the same time
  Three dimensional human
  A holocaust survivor's justification of surviving

  
  A film everyone should see at least ones.
  I need to see this more then ones

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  Nuns on the Run 1990

  Watched 11 Feb 2025 3

  A little anecdote;

  One day, while shooting this movie, Robbie Coltrane was sitting in a chair in full nun regalia having a cigarette.
  This old woman walks up to him and says " Could you give us a blessing sister?" To which Robbie Coltrane gave her the blessing. 😂

Popular reviews

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  Mulholland Drive 2001

  Added 3

  In Memoriam

  Charlie Rose ones said of David Lynch; “David Lynch is widely regarded as America’s premier avant-garde film-maker”. The reason for that is very simple, he had a talent that a lot of other avant-garde film-makers lack, he was watchable. In a goal to be as unique as they can be, they alienate the audience. The case with many of the avant-garde is to choose style over substance. He went for both, one does not have to exclude the…

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  Gods and Monsters 1998

  Rewatched 16 Jan 2025 2

  Sir Ian McKellen, so much more then Gandalf and Magneto. Him and Fraser, pure cinema.