Daniel

Daniel

Favorite films

  • The Tree of Life
  • Andrei Rublev
  • Toni Erdmann
  • Twin Peaks: The Return

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  • Donnie Darko

    ★★½

  • The Grand Budapest Hotel

    ★★★★

  • Vengeance Is Mine

    ★★★½

  • Fanny and Alexander

    ★★★★

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  • The Grand Budapest Hotel

    The Grand Budapest Hotel

    ★★★★

    “To be frank, I think his world had vanished long before he ever entered it. But I will say, he certainly sustained the illusion with a marvellous grace.”

    The violence remains incredibly tart, and still delivers a sharp jolt, though Grand Budapest’s threnodic quality (perhaps because of its attendant ironies) doesn’t move me as much as the regretful species of father/son melancholy that characterises The Life Aquatic or Asteroid City. This is not a criticism, just an expression of what…

  • Night Moves

    Night Moves

    ★★★½

    “You told me fairytales. About Malone, Billy Daruther, the president getting shot, your erect nipples! I want to know what it’s all about!”

    “I didn’t solve anything; it just fell in on top of me.”

    Mean Gene – hair, ‘burns, ‘stache – heads for the door and pulls a brown square-end tie from his blazer pocket. Drapes it over his neck like an opera scarf. Steps out of his buddy’s trailer wearing a grey turtleneck under a suede jacket and…

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  • Twin Peaks: The Return

    Twin Peaks: The Return

    ★★★★★

    I.

    You’re you, but you’re not you. You’re in your home, but maybe it’s not your home. You’ve tried to keep a clean house – to keep things organised – but there’s a corpse inside your living room. An FBI agent knocks on your door and says that you are not who you think you are. He wants to help you. He wants to take you to your mother’s home.

    Because you need to leave this house, you decide to…

  • The Substance

    The Substance

    ★★

    I’m just one person, and there are only so many jerk-off motions one person can make in the face of so much dumb-fuck filmmaking. A truly harrowing test of my capabilities.