Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Indiscretion of an American Wife 1953

  ★★★ Watched 23 Dec 2024

  Rating is for American cut. Italian version is a bit better.

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  Injured College Girl 1995

  ★★★ Watched 07 Apr 2024

  The real time fly on the wall observation style is quite haunting, building nicely into the Merzbow stuff at the end. That build is so much of a slog though.

Popular reviews

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  Red Sun 1970

  ★★★★ Watched 03 Apr 2021

  Wim Wenders described Red Sun as "very cheap" and "artless" but in a way this was an exercise in cementing his own aesthetic reasoning, seeing this film as a sign of German progression into genre film. It wasn't ironic pastiche of Hollywood à la Godard, nor was it based on classic literature or had much relation to early New German Cinema stalwarts like Alexander Kluge.

  The arrangements are predicated on block configurations; from the two-tone colour schemes, to the flat…

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  My Way Home 1978

  ★★★★ Watched 22 Dec 2021

  All entries in the Bill Douglas trilogy are more or less equal in quality but explore different approaches to how a person can be failed. My Childhood deals with a free falling family whose only defense mechanism remains loveless norms acted out like ritual. My Ain Folk tackles the failure of the state and its emotional consequences.

  The final film My Way Home is the most distinct of the three, being less emotionally exhausting and offering a light at the…

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