Scott

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Favorite films

  • French Cancan
  • Out 1
  • The Killing of a Chinese Bookie
  • Twentieth Century

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  • Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me

    ★★★★★

  • City of Pirates

    ★★★½

  • The New World

    ★★★★★

  • Othello

    ★★★★★

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  • City of Pirates

    City of Pirates

    ★★★½

    Incredibly gorgeous, and all the imagery is A1, but also easily the least coherent experience I’ve had with a Ruiz film so far, and the first time I felt like he was bullshitting me just a little bit. Surprised this is his most popular.

  • Othello

    Othello

    ★★★★★

    It feels like a collaboration between Welles and Shakespeare across centuries. Like the other greats of the first half-century of the medium, Welles located the heart of cinema’s aesthetic potential: the classical forms of narrative art, animated by the illusionism of montage and mise-en-scene, to a state of abstract expressionism. In Welles’ body of work, we see most clearly this marriage between the timeless crafts of drama and literature with the inherent modernism and avant-garde experimentalism of the cinema. For…

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  • Everything Everywhere All at Once

    Everything Everywhere All at Once

    ½

    I only watched 15 minutes but thats more than enough to know it’s 🗑‼️ What the fuck are you cornballs thinking 😂 respectfully. Had to do my small part lowering the avg rating which I guess is a lost cause. The epic bacon crowd has triumphed.

  • Megalopolis

    Megalopolis

    ★★★★½

    A torrent of scattered visions; for the reckless dreamers. The idea that really hit hard for me is that the degree of artistic freedom is the measuring stick of a society’s health. For a film which is really Copollas crusade of hope and optimism against the cold hearted cynicism of decadent America, all the snickering and scoffing in the audience really proved its point.