Noigandres

Noigandres

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Favorite films

  • Perceval
  • The Duellists
  • The Passion of Joan of Arc
  • Nostos: The Return

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  • True Grit

  • Oldboy

  • Angel Face

  • Out of the Past

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  • Prometheus

    Prometheus

    "The Gigerian aesthetic -- traumatic impregnation, forced metamorphosis, sarcophagi, ravenous orifices and malignant fluids is compelling enough, counterposed with sublimely lifeless rock vistas and the androgynous, angelic mien of David, for me to forgive moments of thin characterization, overly obvious revolvers on the mantle, and a few instances of implausible behavior. There's less of the latter than many self-sure spergs would like to think -- e.g., the "unaccountable about-face" of the biologist and geologist and the "astonishingly stupid" inclination of…

  • The Witch

    The Witch

    "What impressed me about The VVitch (2015) is that it is a political film whose politics are exclusively contemporary to its historical setting. It allegorises Hutchinsonian antinomianism and the Williamsite split as though they were still the subject of op-eds in the Atlantic."

    "The most depressing thing about the reviews of The VVitch was how few reviewers noticed that “live deliciously” was lifted directly from Revelations."

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