rory

rory

Favorite films

  • Close-Up
  • The Company of Strangers
  • Morvern Callar
  • Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai

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  • Memoirs of a Geisha

    ★½

  • The Beaches of Agnès

    ★★★★★

  • I'm Still Here

    ★★★★½

  • Harakiri

    ★★★★½

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  • Memoirs of a Geisha

    Memoirs of a Geisha

    ★½

    4 students gather in a basement to watch memoirs of a geisha because they decided to choose that essay question… worst decision of their lives? Possibly. I’ll have plenty to write about despite the fact nothing happens in this painful fucking (racist ah) movie

  • The Beaches of Agnès

    The Beaches of Agnès

    ★★★★★

    Didn’t want it to end, I could listen to Agnès and learn about her fascinating life all day. What I loved most about this was the way in which each era and related location/film delicately eased into the next - the lack of definitive chapters or buildup to transition between events made me feel as if I were being taken gently downstream on a little boat, passing by all the people, details, objects and idiosyncrasies that amount to a kaleidoscopic…

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  • I'm Still Here

    I'm Still Here

    ★★★★½

    Probably my favourite from this awards season. Went into this having no idea it was a true story, which made my ignorance for this brutal period of Brazilian history all the more poignant. Idk what camera they used but everything was so vivid, the brights were rich and the darks were deep which did so much for immersion - I felt warm or cold when the story demanded me to. I also appreciated the lack of technical bells and whistles,…

  • House

    House

    ★★★★

    This entire film felt like a banjo-kazooie cutscene. The best compliment I can give anything