natkatz

natkatz

Favorite films

  • Pride & Prejudice
  • A Room with a View
  • Moonstruck
  • The Royal Tenenbaums

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  • Orlando

    ★★★★½

  • Cha Cha Real Smooth

    ★★★★

  • Yentl

    ★★★★★

  • Wicked

    ★★★½

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  • Orlando

    Orlando

    ★★★★½

    A strange and visually stunning walk through time (1600s-1990s). Tilda Swinton is pale and haunting. I have not read the original novel by Virginia Woolf but it’s certainly a wild story.

  • Cha Cha Real Smooth

    Cha Cha Real Smooth

    ★★★★

    This one took me a bit by surprise. It encapsulates a lot of genuine feeling. Cooper Raif, with whom I was not previously familiar, is very compelling in his role. My main note is that Domino is a stupid name for Dakota Johnson’s character.

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  • A Real Pain

    A Real Pain

    ★★

    I was excited about this movie as I’m currently writing my undergraduate capstone thesis on a topic related to Polish Holocaust memory. Unfortunately, it was a bit hard to watch and the characters were not fully fleshed out. Jesse Eisenberg was playing himself and Keiran Cullkan’s character was nearly excruciating which I think was the point? I wish there had been a fuller, deeper exploration of Jewish identity, Poland, and Holocaust memory as it is such a rich topic. I did appreciate Eisenberg repping IU I guess, and there were moments that I enjoyed.

  • Yentl

    Yentl

    ★★★★★

    Barbara Streisand stuns in a film featuring the first ever lesbian Jewish wedding in 
    pre-war Eastern Europe, while Mandy Patankin brings a sexy twist to the nebbish yeshiva boy. It’s a puzzling, emotional, and gender-bending series of events!

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