Favorite films

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  The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie 1972

  ★★★½ Watched 22 Mar 2025

  It's funny that this won the Oscar and Buñuel couldn't have given less than a damn.

  I watched this as a part of my Criterion Challenge 2025. 1970s.

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  Drylongso 1998

  ★★★★ Watched 19 Mar 2025

  A beautiful movie I wish I had known about sooner, else I wouldn't be so critical of its flaws (mostly that the slasher subplot was too neatly wrapped up). The soundtrack is great, the colors are warm, the characters are nuanced. I like that the protagonist is self assured. Her mission to document evidence of the existence of Black men—an "endangered species," as she puts it—speaks not only to how poorly treated people of color are in American society, but…

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  Norman Norman 2018

  ★★★★ Watched 11 Feb 2025

  The love I have for my pets is so profound and all-encompassing that I can't imagine using them in such a way. Skin, fur, and eyes can be replicated, but the relationship between you and that one individual pet cannot. The finiteness of life is tragically sad, but it's also beautiful. If everyone lasted forever, we would never treasure them. Death is a learning experience.

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  Eraserhead 1977

  ★★★★★ Watched 01 Jan 2025

  And so ends my Criterion Challenge 2024. (The prompt for this one was Tunde Adebimpe’s Top 10). I may be a year late and I may have skirted a bunch of films in favor of ones that were easier to get through (sometime I'll watch all nine and a half hours of Shoah, I swear), but at the end of the day this is for fun and I can watch whatever the hell I want! Just like David Lynch can…