Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Day of Wrath 1943

  ★★★★½ Watched 12 Mar 2025

  Manifestation queen. 

  The thrill of power for the powerless, the power of the spoken words in an age of illiteracy, the patriarchal and the theological. God I love Dreyer, the way he frames shots, his quiet tenderness, his humanity.

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  A Room with a View 1986

  ★★★ Rewatched 02 Mar 2025

  Rewatched a bit too soon on the insistence of my friend who had seen a compilation of Julian Sands scenes in this. 

  The raw force of nature, Italy and the body vs the rigidness of stuffy Edwardian society. Enjoyed the thorough read “When I picture you, it is always in a room”.

Popular reviews

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  Johnny Guitar 1954

  ★★★ Watched 27 Jan 2024

  A psychosexual drama in a fluorescent western Disneyland set. It’ is at time so artificial looking it almost crosses over to campy art film. 
  To me, the undercurrent in this movie is the unspoken history between Vienna and Emma Smalls. Why is Emma burning up with hatred for Vienna? Is it just Viennas improper way of life, her love affair with the man Emma supposedly has a thing for (we see no evidence of this)? My theory is very forbidden,…

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  Harakiri 1962

  ★★★★ Watched 19 Feb 2025

  Extremely competent in all aspects, social realism in feudal Japan. I’m unfortunately just not that interested in feudal Japan.

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