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Favorite films

  • The Empire Strikes Back
  • The Social Network
  • Aliens
  • My Neighbor Totoro

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  • Black Bag

    ★★★★

  • Look Back

    ★★★½

  • Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles

    ★★★½

  • Long Way Up

    ★★★★

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  • Black Bag

    Black Bag

    ★★★★

    Banger of a thriller. Super sleek as you’d expect a Soderbergh thriller to be.

    Every time you see a Soderbergh film like this, you’re just reminder how the man can direct in his sleep better than most directors on the planet.

    Thoroughly entertaining script, Holmes’ music always brings the vibe, great cast, was particularly impressed by Marisa Abela standing shoulder to shoulder with talents I’m more familiar with.

    And whatever Soderbergh did lighting wise in this film, I am very much onboard with. The brightness and blurred halo effect around the in scene lighting really worked for me.

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  • Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles

    Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles

    ★★★½

    Switch light on. Switch light off.

    Switch light on. Switch light off.

    Switch light on. Switch light off.

    I really like the commitment to entirely stationary shots throughout and I like that it is showing the mundanity of her life, but the pay off to showing all that mundanity just wasn’t quite there for me.

    For about 10 minutes in the middle of the film, it got really interesting to me. Her life was slowly unravelling and I actually felt…

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  • Lend a Paw

    Lend a Paw

    ★★★★

    That kitten is the cutest little thing possibly ever and I want to hurt whoever tried to kill that poor little piece of adorable goodness.

  • The Red Turtle

    The Red Turtle

    ★★★½

    Not got a clue what most of that is supposed to represent. Time to do some reading on other people’s theories I guess.

    Some beautiful imagery throughout, the little crabs were cute. The silent atmosphere, general soundscape, and sporadic sprinkling of a musical score worked really well together.