Robert Youngblood

Robert Youngblood

Favorite films

  • Tampopo
  • The Long Goodbye
  • Local Hero
  • Matewan

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  • The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie

  • Flow

  • The Cat

    ★★★★

  • WarGames

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  • The Brutalist

    The Brutalist

    ★★½

    I wanted to like this film. I really did.  But I am deeply suspicious of what its trying to sell and that’s primarily because I don’t think its trying to sell anything other than its own importance. A film straining to let you know its a serious and important “art with a capitol A” film. 

    which is a real shame because it has so much going for it - the look! the score! - and genuinely doesn’t feel like its…

  • Gwen and the Book of Sand

    Gwen and the Book of Sand

    screening at the Philosophical Research Society, Los Angeles

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  • Nosferatu

    Nosferatu

    ★★★

    As much a remake of Schalcken the Painter as it is Murnau’s original.

    A lot to like and recommend but sort of confounded by a film about sex and desire that has absolutely zero eroticism or passion in it. Strangely a very unhorny horny film. Extremely chaste. Is it a problem that i can’t tell if that’s the point or not?

    Eggers seems to be much more successful exploring themes dealing with men than he is women. As in The…

  • The Doom Generation

    The Doom Generation

    ★★★★

    LET THE BOYS KISS

    Vidiots Screening.

    Gregg and James in attendance for Q&A.

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