Naomi Carpenter

Naomi Carpenter

Favorite films

  • Judas and the Black Messiah
  • Monster
  • Perfect Days
  • Call Me by Your Name

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  • Mickey 17

    ★★★½

  • Four Winters: A Story of Jewish Partisan Resistance and Bravery in WWII

    ★★★

  • No Other Land

    ★★★½

  • The Holdovers

    ★★★★

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  • Mickey 17

    Mickey 17

    ★★★½

    4 stars but this was definitely too intense & scary for me … i had to leave the theater and de-escalate in the bathroom lol.. so 3.5. vegans & ex vegans watch with care :((( those creatures rly suffer mannn

    but honestly im so glad someone made this movie bc this is quite literally the future elon wants & hopefully it will make people stop it before it happens.

  • Four Winters: A Story of Jewish Partisan Resistance and Bravery in WWII

    Four Winters: A Story of Jewish Partisan Resistance and Bravery in WWII

    ★★★

    resilience/terrorism/armed resistance/a refusal to submit… realized how often i learned this story as one of jewish weakness passivity. great and thought provoking

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  • Salt of This Sea

    Salt of This Sea

    ★★★½

    watched for class— i’ll post what i said later

    "You want to talk about history? The past? Forget it!"
    "Your past is my every day."

    Soraya talks of refugee camps like she grew up there, of her grandfather's life as if she lived it alongside him. At the end of the film, she tells the police officers she was born in Jaffa. At first, I didn't understand what Tareq Baconi meant when he wrote "the sadness within me....is not all…

  • A World Not Ours

    A World Not Ours

    ★★★★★

    “I hate the thought of time passing. That’s why I don’t wear a watch.”

    الفيلم حقيقاً جدًا و صوّر شيء أكتر جميلة من كلمات تستطيع يتكلمون. ان شاء الله فلسطين حرة في حياتنا، وفي حياة ابو اياد.

    wow. this documentary was insightful, resonant, and one of the best films i have ever seen about Palestine. عن جاد. fleifel captures something unspeakable and so human about the temporal and spatial dislocation of the residents of ain al-helweh... whole lives spent waiting…