Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Nosferatu 1922

  ★★★★ Watched 12 Jan 2025

  Not quite as terrifying as I remember it feeling when I first viewed long ago but still chilling to the bone. I can’t help but imagine how horrifying this must’ve been to see on the big screen in the 1920’s - as perhaps the very first film you’ve ever watched. Classic icon. Thankful for F.W. Murnau and Prana to have plagiarized Stoker and for the crafty Germans who made sure all copies were not destroyed. Ah, if only the even earlier Hungarian film could’ve shared the same undead fate. 4 stars

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  Six Men Getting Sick 1967

  Watched 28 Jan 2025

  attempted Lynch retrospective - early short film

Popular reviews

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  The Past 2013

  ★★★★ Watched 15 Feb 2014

  I found Farhadi’s A Separation follow up to be another subtly-built, yet devastating domestic-life mystery filled with incredible acting. He’s able to set this whirlwind of emotions and misunderstandings spinning and the plot is continually propelled by the omission of key points from one character to another. This seems to me to be a quite common problem in American interpersonal relationships so despite it being set in France, I could intimately relate with what I saw on screen. For this,…

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  Only Lovers Left Alive 2013

  ★★★½ Watched 15 May 2014

  I totally flaked on the CIFF this year and this was one of the films featured that I really wanted to get to before its release to theatres. Anyway it hit the arthouse here just a month or so later and it really is true - Jim Jarmusch did make a vampire film! Well, I’ve middled on much of his stuff but his favorite work for me has been the forays he’s made into genre-ish material (Ghost Dog and now…