Rachel Van Amburgh

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Favorite films

  • Desert Hearts
  • Punch-Drunk Love
  • The Tree of Life
  • Xanadu

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  • The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad

  • SLY LIVES! (aka The Burden of Black Genius)

    ★★★½

  • The First Omen

    ★★★★

  • The Only Girl in the Orchestra

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  • Beyond the Valley of the Dolls

    Beyond the Valley of the Dolls

    ★★★

    Rating for the cast commentary only, which is a hot mess (and the men are gross) - if you’re gonna pick one, go Ebert 😅 overall though, still big love for this delightfully insane fever dream of a film (for so many reasons) 🤗

  • Blaze

    Blaze

    ★★★★

    Still not over seeing Audra in Gypsy, and eager to see any and all peripherally-related material. While similar, it’s plenty unique - there are some really great performances, and I always love that vintage Louisiana lewk! An unfortunate reminder that Democrats fighting for social equity will always get raked over the coals for the slightest indiscretion, while Republicans can literally get away with anything 😶 anything! Anything! ANYTHING! www. I_hate_it_here/make it stop.wake!the!fuck!up!@Jesus H Christ.com!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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  • Nosferatu

    Nosferatu

    ★★★★★

    Not to be over the top, but…this is undoubtedly a masterpiece of gothic horror. Breathtaking cinematography à la Barry Lyndon (Eggers/Blaschke’s gift for shooting snow is akin to Kurosawa’s gift for shooting rain), with the slow burn nightmare pacing of The Shining (the Count Orlok reveal is worth the wait). The script is mesmerizing, and allowed the breathing room to really flesh out these characters, yielding one banger performance after another. Never in my wildest dreams did I think there…

  • Red Rocket

    Red Rocket

    Sean Baker: “So, this is an interesting thing and I haven’t mentioned this much in the press because it’s dangerous in 2021. This is the first film I’ve ever made, I think, in which I’ve had to go back and embrace the heterosexual male gaze, which is now a no no, essentially, in cinemas. It’s like, “We’re getting away from that. We’ve had a century of that.” But for me to understand this character and get the audience closer to…