madeline blair

madeline blair

filmmaker & writer with an affection 
for moving pictures & poetry

Favorite films

  • Heathers
  • Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
  • To Have and Have Not
  • The Silence

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  • Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

    ★★★★★

  • Juror #2

    ★★★★

  • To Have and Have Not

    ★★★★★

  • Experimenter

    ★★

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  • Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

    Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

    ★★★★★

    the most beautiful perfect 17 daggers to the heart. i think about this movie every day

  • Juror #2

    Juror #2

    ★★★★

    i forgot to log this when i watched it but remember enjoying it! clint's style is fascinating to me, always has an air of hyperrealism without necessarily veering into caricature. nicholas hoult is just incredible, that garage scene was heartbreaking. the courtroom and jury deliberation bits themselves were not so well-written but not that big of a deal. what this film gets at with the idea of truth and its consequences is quite profound

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  • The Sweet East

    The Sweet East

    ★★½

    nihilist gen x beau is afraid for red scare-pilled girlies... lots of voyeuristic misogyny where the lolita-coded lead manipulates and wooes all these men at the tip of her virginia slim menthol-wielding fingertips. pizzagate, a studded-dick exhibitionist, massive cocaine-snorting puppet, meta film set massacre, slurs and vapes and guns galore, all teetering between american satire and edgelord gibberish. can't decide if it wants to be the 70s or 90s or 2020s. picaresque, yes, but the vignette choices were kinda nonsense.…

  • Poor Things

    Poor Things

    wanted to love this one so bad as a weird bitch to my core but this was no less than insufferable. the style had absolutely no substance and was so try-hard bizarre just for the sake of being different. arbitrarily switching between b&w and color, overusing odd lenses and zoom ins and outs, plastic looking cgi, all for nothing! the audience burst out laughing every 5 seconds at things i couldn't even pretend to find funny. so many random details…