Favorite films

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  Mulholland Drive 2001

  ★★★ Watched 23 Mar 2025

  i actually enjoyed this more than i usually enjoy david lunch’s films - maybe because i allowed the film to wash over me more than trying to actually understand what was happening (which maybe speaks volumes!).

  i thought the film was mostly about a childlike loss of innocence: falling in love for someone who doesn’t love you back, your dream career not being as good as you expected it to be. 

  that said, there’s a lot more to be gleaned from this film, but i’m just not sure i can be bothered to watch it again.

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  Videodrome 1983

  ★★★ Watched 21 Mar 2025

  completely crazy and a little bit silly

Popular reviews

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  Barbie 2023

  ★★★★★ Watched 27 Jul 2023 1

  i think this may be my favourite film of 2023. barbie is really funny, sad, happy and generally just very entertaining.

  watching the film, i think gerwig had to toe a very difficult and fine line as all artists do when it comes to feminism and feminist ideologies. central to this is the problem of pitting men against women - the initiative to make Kendom back into Barbieland which suggests that feminism is about women ruling over men as men…

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  A Complete Unknown 2024

  ★★½ Watched 29 Jan 2025

  i was actually pleasantly surprised, i really was expecting it to be terrible.

  it did feel a little like a musical in places, just dropping in songs every few minutes but maybe that’s what the dylan fans wanted? it’s not really what i wanted, and, besides, if that is what i wanted, surely it would have just been better to go and listen to actual bob dylan? 

  i thought timothée chalamet did an okay impression of bob dylan and i liked hearing the joan baez songs. the film did just feel a bit pointless though, which left me feeling a bit flat.

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