Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  All That Heaven Allows 1955

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 28 Feb 2025 1

  “This is the dialectic—there is a very short distance between high art and trash, and trash that contains an element of craziness is by this very quality nearer to art.” -Douglas Sirk

  that quote encapsulates a lot of my feelings towards genre film in general. i am drawn to films that were made for the masses and the way that reflects ideologies but more specifically when these films break the genre conventions in order to expose the complex desires and…

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  Bad Girls Go to Hell 1965

  Watched 15 Feb 2025

  strikes a really interesting balance of being salacious without reveling too much in the protagonist’s suffering. it’s clear wishman wanted to depict a living nightmare rather than sexual violence for shock factor. the exploitation tropes can make this hard to see at times but you can tell in her restrained approach to depicting nudity that she wants the audience to inhabit the protagonist’s perspective rather than see her as a sexual object.

Popular reviews

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  Portrait of a Lady on Fire 2019

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 08 Nov 2020 2

  the kids in the greenways talking loudly about their lake houses kinda ruined the vibe but this film is still incredible.

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  Funeral Parade of Roses 1969

  Watched 29 Jan 2025

  this is such an incredibly visually and thematically dense that i feel inadequate to try to provide any analysis after watching it just one time. it’s easy to forget that the chronological approach to narrative is one that doesn’t really take much advantage of the medium itself. obviously there are many experimental short films that eschew narrative together but i’ve never seen a feature length film that’s so chronologically disjointed that manages to maintain a strong narrative through line. it…