Maria Perez Cuervo

Maria Perez Cuervo

Writer, editor, comms manager. Founder and editor of @helleborezine.

Favorite films

  • The Devil Rides Out
  • The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
  • Night of the Eagle
  • Blade Runner

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  • Midnight Cowboy

    ★★★★★

  • The Last Wave

    ★★★★

  • Beauty and the Beast

    ★★★

  • Tolkien

    ★★★★

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  • Midnight Cowboy

    Midnight Cowboy

    ★★★★★

    I’d forgotten how much I love this movie.

  • The Last Wave

    The Last Wave

    ★★★★

    106 minutes of ominous weather, premonitory dreams and Richard Chamberlain’s beautiful face in 1970s Sydney. I’ve always felt a strange affinity with Weir’s films, with their subtle mysticism and his approach to mystery. Enigmatic and beautiful, this would make a great double bill with Skolimowski’s The Shout.

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  • Nosferatu

    Nosferatu

    ★★★★★

    Eggers pays tribute to Albin Grau’s Prana Film with an occult-heavy reimagining of Stoker’s novel via Murnau and Herzog. Skarsgård is astonishing as the hulking, brutal incarnation of evil, his Orlok a necromantic sorcerer in the vein of James’s Count Magnus (as the first reviews noted, there is no trace of the actor in the character, his voice and appearance fully altered; he’s truly our era’s Lon Chaney). Aside from him, my favourite performance was Nicholas Hoult’s turn as Thomas…

  • Night Tide

    Night Tide

    ★★★★

    Like a beatnik RKO/Val Lewton production with two beautiful leads, a dreamy California setting, and a moody, abstract soundtrack. Most of the time what I want from a movie is that it feels like slipping into a deeply comforting opium dream, and Night Tide delivers. The title is taken from a line of Poe’s best poem. 

    My new headcanon is that this is the backstory of Billy from Easy Rider.