ninahola

ninahola

Favorite films

  • Vertigo
  • Some Like It Hot
  • The Godfather
  • Mulholland Drive

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  • The Watchers

    ★½

  • Queer

    ★★★★½

  • Flow

    ★★★★½

  • The Apprentice

    ★★★½

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  • The Watchers

    The Watchers

    ★½

    the watchers giving BODY-ODY

  • Queer

    Queer

    ★★★★½

    Gorgeous camerawork, sets, and costuming; impeccable performance from Craig; I loved the psychedelic qualities to some of the shots and the anachronistic Nirvana playing through a jukebox in 1950s Mexico City gave me goosebumps. Utterly agonizing, like a scream into the pillow in the middle of a lonely night.

    Probably my favorite Guadagnino.

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  • Decision to Leave

    Decision to Leave

    ★★★★½

    Deeply erotic and surprisingly funny neo-noir film about the kinds of transgressions, the manipulation, and the obsession necessary to spark true sexual desire. Your husband has you tattoo his initials on your pubic bone? Suffocating and abusive possessiveness. But the detective watching from the shadows and pinning photos of your silhouette to his wall? Bring me his heart! Your pretty petite wife spanks you when she smells smoke on your sweater during dinner? A domestic intimacy that suppresses all passion.…

  • Everything Everywhere All at Once

    Everything Everywhere All at Once

    ★★★

    Maximalist sincerity with incredible perfomances from the core cast, Michelle Yeoh is phenomenal and there’s something to be said that it only took 38 days to film this lil’ visual feast. But I feel like “Everything Everywhere All At Once” is very much “Certain Things Certain Places Certain Times,” meaning the humor+moral takeaways+overall gist come straight to us from the good old days of Obama’s second term twee core of 2012 — I absolutely would have posted screen grabs from…

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