prestonw27

prestonw27

Favorite films

  • Solaris
  • The Lighthouse
  • Dreams
  • Eraserhead

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  • Woyzeck

  • Autumn Sonata

  • I Know What You Did Last Summer

  • We're All Going to the World's Fair

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  • Woyzeck

    Woyzeck

    Good, grotesque. I was surprised by some of the cut lines in this straightforward adaptation of an already fragmented text, but I think it worked. Some motifs are reduced to single lines, but the result is more focused on the drama of Woyzeck being neither agent nor object. 
    Interesting soundtrack. Everything diegetic is painful to listen to but does more for the film than the rest of the music, which I don’t think really fits. Although the grating, half-assedly happy dance music with Kinski’s eyes bulging out of his skull—wow.

  • Autumn Sonata

    Autumn Sonata

    Just really good. Liked this more than the earlier Bergman films I’ve seen. I also think this is the first movie I’ve watched in over 3 months, so maybe I enjoyed it more for that reason.

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  • Civil War

    Civil War

    Not an awful movie, but marketed deceptively and not great. It’s not really a political movie, or at least doesn’t say anything coherent or interesting about the American political landscape. The type of movie I expected probably would have been worse, though. I think I would have enjoyed it a lot more if I had gone into expecting a movie about conflict journalism rather than a civil war in the US. But unrelated to my expectations, there were also a…

  • The Batman

    The Batman

    ★★★

    Paul Dano looked like he was going to cum when they handcuffed him

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