plaidtoes

plaidtoes

Favorite films

  • Inside Llewyn Davis
  • Wings of Desire
  • Waking Life
  • Spirited Away

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  • Conclave

    ★★★½

  • Nosferatu

    ★★★★★

  • Megalopolis

  • I Saw the TV Glow

    ★★★★

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  • Conclave

    Conclave

    ★★★½

    very entertaining (was never bored); not very subtle.

  • Nosferatu

    Nosferatu

    ★★★★★

    An allegory for the confrontation between modern/Enlightenment mechanistic science (Newton) and various forms of “enchanted”/superstitious worldviews, culminating in the final frame which reveals nothing other than the fact that the truly modern science - one that does not abandon but works with the supernatural - is a physics of affects, an understanding of and ability to manipulate desire. The cat may have no master and answer to no one: but it happily leaps into Dafoe’s lap.

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  • Challengers

    Challengers

    ★★★

    a thoroughly heterosexual drama

  • Megalopolis

    Megalopolis

    heavy handed and incoherent in turns. a real feat.

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