ryan willis

ryan willis

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Favorite films

  • The Act of Seeing with One's Own Eyes
  • The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
  • I Saw the TV Glow
  • The Other Side of the Wind

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  • Rope

    ★★★

  • A Complete Unknown

    ★★★½

  • Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith

    ★★★★½

  • Pulse

    ★★★★½

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  • The Gleaners and I

    The Gleaners and I

    ★★★★½

    Jean laplanche jump scare + recommended through allan stoekls great book “bataille’s peak: energy, religion, and postsustainability”. The notion of orgiastic recycling felt unreasonable, or at the very least utopian, until watching this film, recontextualizing a reading of bataille I felt to be uber-pragmatic at the time of reading/writing. In some sense, recycling my own intellectual waste; this too, wants one to see an aesthetics of waste, or in another, just understands the fact that we inevitably produce more waste…

  • I Saw the TV Glow

    I Saw the TV Glow

    ★★★★★

    Less of a hamlet tale (aside from the relative collapse of the paternal signifier opening up the space of the pure formalism of the subject i.e. the cogito devoid of its attributes) than it is a contemporary take on self-exteriorization, best exemplified in jean genet’s the thief’s journal. Lots of thoughts, really want to explore the relation between schoenbrum here and genet in relation to the subject, fantasy, and universality as what both authors/directors are concerned with is the ethical…

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  • Malcolm & Marie

    Malcolm & Marie

    ½

    SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP SAM LEVINSON PLEASE GOD SHUT THE FUCKING FUCK UP

  • Us Again

    Us Again

    ★★

    twizzlers: the short film