Owen Ward

Owen Ward

Favorite films

  • Eyes Wide Shut
  • Rosemary's Baby
  • Blue Velvet
  • Twin Peaks: The Return

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  • The Celebration

    ★★★★★

  • Lost Highway

    ★★★★★

  • Dog Eat Dog

  • House of Tolerance

    ★★★★★

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  • The Celebration

    The Celebration

    ★★★★★

    Oh man that final shot. The vast, suffocating weight of the entire film comes crashing down at once. So deeply, deeply sad.

  • Lost Highway

    Lost Highway

    ★★★★★

    So much of Lynch’s filmography deals with the willful fracture of the self, in which the parts responsible for evil are excised and personified as an outside force rather than some part of the interior, with which the rational mind cannot possibly identify. I think this film is his most direct, and nearly his most effective version of this.

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  • Megalopolis

    Megalopolis

    ★★★★★

    Take every intangible element of yourself, including everything that shaped you from the beginning of time, history, culture, art, your love, your creativity, your memory, your potential, and make of that a material element ungoverned by the only thing which can destroy it: time. Take that element and use it to build; build something that lasts because it never stops changing, something that shelters from injustice and comforts with love. Open the doors and let everyone inside, and you have…

  • The Substance

    The Substance

    You think seven days is a long time? Try sitting through 2.5 hours of this shit!

    Not sure where to begin. On nearly every front this is a complete and utter failure of a film. Edited like an episode of Love Island, shot in extreme close-up for 90 percent of the runtime (sorry, Fargeat, but zooming in on something boring and unimaginative does not make it Significant) so we can’t even see the decent effects work, legitimately one of the…