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  Paris Is Burning 1990

  ★★★★★ Watched 08 Feb 2025

  Essential viewing. I love this culture. I love their fierceness and creativity and stupidity and humor. Everyone is trying to build an illusion of importance and find community on this wretched earth and I just love that the director gave everyone the respect to share themselves and what they find meaningful. I see traces of the ball scene to this day everywhere in the films and music I consume and in my personality and friendships. 

  To be real by cheryl lynn is stuck in my head again.

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  Presence 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 07 Feb 2025

  It was great. A friend and I bought tickets because apparently Julia Fox is in it, but she was no where to be seen? Must’ve been the first 5 minutes cause we missed that but it didn’t end up mattering cause I loved it nonetheless. It has a unique concept which is a ghost story but from the perspective of the ghost. The camera is a constant POV through the ghosts eyes. Its not traditional horror flick, its more about…

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  Nosferatu the Vampyre 1979

  ★★★★ Watched 05 Nov 2024 1

  This was really cool. Herzog shows dracula in a way that I found very moving. The concept of living forever as a parasite/predator is explored and the entire film has a dramatic, bitter, and tragic mood. This vampire is not sexy and charismatic but lonely and condemned to a philosophical black hole.

  Also the lighting is incredible and atmospheric, definitely one of my favorite looking 70s films.

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  Nosferatu 2024

  ★★★ Watched 11 Jan 2025

  It was alright. Most of the performances were great but Bill Skarsgard was definitely disappointing, he plays him very distantly and basically was an uninteresting incel. It still looked moody and was shot beautifully. The set design was atmospheric and felt lived in. I think I’m just missing the dread and despair and drama the herzog version had. Also there were questionable edits throughout the movie and shockingly stupid jumpscares? I wasn’t sure if the editing just sucked or my…

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