mmarkhamm

mmarkhamm

Favorite films

  • Naked Lunch
  • Mad Love
  • A Clockwork Orange
  • Possession

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  • Morgiana

    ★★★½

  • But I'm a Cheerleader

    ★★★★

  • Stranger by the Lake

    ★★★½

  • The Velvet Vampire

    ★½

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  • Morgiana

    Morgiana

    ★★★½

    Another great film that through excess makes the quality extremely hallucinatory and dreamlike in a good way. Apparently Herz himself didn’t like his own film in this case but honestly it’s quite fascinating, almost as if I was watching Gothic Snow White without the dwarfs, just more trippy and surreal. It’s prob not his best film as much as I hoped to love this for example the scene at the bar before the lover searches for Klara just felt a…

  • But I'm a Cheerleader

    But I'm a Cheerleader

    ★★★★

    The whole concept of this film almost feels like something out of a John Waters’ movie, minus the filth. This sort of visual style usually don’t really sit well with me but it worked perfectly with the film, and at first it felt weird in the ending when the tone and style sort of disappeared but I think it actually makes a lot of sense now.

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  • The Hunt

    The Hunt

    ★★★★½

    I hosted a screening of this for film society and I think I did a good job

  • The Third Part of the Night

    The Third Part of the Night

    ★★★★★

    I don’t usually give 5 stars that easily and yes I don’t fully understand this film cuz it could be confusing at times but watching a Zulawski film for me is sometimes the greatest cinematic experience I could ask for. Often decoding the absurd reality within his world and trying to make sense of it, with him it is a unique experience as you often have to look between the lines in order to figure out what he is trying…