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  • Welcome to New York

    ★★★★½

  • Performance

    ★★★★★

  • Cotton Comes to Harlem

    ★★★★½

  • The Pope of Greenwich Village

    ★★★★

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  • Welcome to New York

    Welcome to New York

    ★★★★½

    Everyday i think I’ve seen it all and then I see an improvised semi-pornographic Abel Ferrara film which got ominously excluded from Cannes about the butt naked Managing Director of the IMF getting g-checked by the NYPD for 2hrs straight. Bravo.

    P.S. can i just say the symmetry between the lead actor and the real life subject the film is based on is insane. The real life director of the IMF after leaving his position as a result of sexual…

  • Performance

    Performance

    ★★★★★

    This is as close as I’ll ever get to stepping inside the Little Venice Zawiya and for that I’m grateful #mashallahmickjagger 📿✨🗻

    also cockney gangsters
    also psychedelic rock
    also the last poets
    also 70s london
    also lengerz

    wow

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  • Nosferatu

    Nosferatu

    ★★★★

    This movie suggests something really interesting which is that in the advent of Modernity white people moved to believing in God with science rather than God with mysticism. Essentially dispelling evil and therefore good from reality, and perhaps even truth. I feel like Robert Eggers really captures well the turning point at the Industrial Revolution which would inevitably lead to Post-Modernity and the death of truth, belief, and even honour as you see in the exploits of certain characters in…

  • Perfect Days

    Perfect Days

    ★★★★★

    This film addresses modernity in the best way, by never really addressing it. Technology and time dance in the great humble shadow of nature, in a changing age. There are so many questions we could ask, that we can ask. The great sorrow of the protagonist only that he did not ask more, despite him having asked much more than of us, says so much. It’s a new dawn, it’s a new day, it’s a new life: the only choice is how we feel.

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