Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  The Turin Horse 2011

  ★★★ Watched 19 Jan 2025

  can't be a coincidence that this came out the same year as Dark Souls

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  The Comfort of Strangers 1990

  ★★½ Watched 20 Dec 2023

  I love how creepy and menacing Schrader's Venice looks, but the dialogue is so elliptical and the performances are so stilted that I found it difficult to care much about what was going on. What a waste.

Popular reviews

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  The Plumber 1979

  ★★★★ Watched 28 May 2020 3

  It's really incredible how Peter Weir manages to create a sense of psychological horror with so little. Not just because this is a very low budget production, but also because there isn't any point where everything breaks down. It just keeps building up and up.

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  Mamma Roma 1962

  ★★★★ Watched 14 Sep 2020

  Pasolini's approach to neorealism is so fascinating. The awkwardness of the non-professional actors makes you always be aware that you're watching a movie, and this hyper-awareness makes even simple moments transcendental. My favorite sequences are probably the long shots of Anna Magnani walking in the dark and talking to different men.

  This is by far the most straightforward Pasolini I've seen, the others being Teorema and Salò.

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