Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  The Brutalist 2024

  Watched 25 Feb 2025

  Would it compromise your aesthetic vision that much to put a fucking table in the home library?

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  Looking for Langston 1989

  ★★★★½ Watched 05 Feb 2025

  Sun's a risin',
  This is gonna be my song.
  I could be blue but
  I been blue all night long.

Popular reviews

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  Illusion Travels by Streetcar 1954

  Watched 08 Nov 2022

  Wow Buñuel could clearly see that the bourgeoise will always use inflation crises as a cover for price gouging in 1954

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  Oh, Canada 2024

  ★★½ Watched 30 Jan 2025

  Despite the many features that should endear this film to me—Montreal setting, NFB-style documentaries, references to Sontag and Freud—I couldn’t get on board. Schrader is still too much in his self-pitying alt-boomer confessional mode, and the potentially interesting commentary on subjects like documentary ethics and the psychogeography of borders is washed out by indulging too deeply in a character study of a guy who is kind of a jerk. 

  A director’s attention to detail betrays their level of care, and let’s just say that there’s no way Leonard’s home is in Old Montreal.