scottsecco

scottsecco

Favorite films

  • The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
  • No Country for Old Men
  • All the President's Men
  • Zodiac

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  • The Northman

    ★★★★

  • The Ladies Man

    ★★★★★

  • One of Them Days

    ★★★½

  • The Pianist

    ★★★★★

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  • The Northman

    The Northman

    ★★★★

    Liked this more than I remembered! Björk's costume is amazing.

  • The Ladies Man

    The Ladies Man

    ★★★★★

    I'm currently reading The Total Filmmaker by Jerry Lewis so it was only right to check out the man's work for the first time.* Lewis was a comic genius: a multi-hyphenate actor, writer, director, producer; a genuine filmmaking auteur. He embodies his own Total Filmmaker designation as he had complete control of his craft in every aspect. He called the shots and the studio let him since he printed money. His team even pioneered video assist for film cameras way…

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  • Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga

    Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga

    ★★★★★

    Just an absolute instant classic on every level. Watching this again at home and then watching the behind the scenes makes it even more impressive. They shot for 76 days on the Stowaway sequence alone! They actually lifted the stuntman up on a crane for that foot surfing flying shot!

    Another thing that blew me away upon rewatch was the commitment to long moving masters. Miller completely changed the visual language of Furiosa - compared to Fury Road - and…

  • Longlegs

    Longlegs

    Some of the best marketing of the year, in service of absolute nonsense!

    Was pretty into the first 20 minutes of this bad boy and then whoah nelly it lost me so hard. That script is absolute hogwash: none of the characters have an arc, Kiernan Shipka has one of the worst single scene performances I've ever witnessed (was her character a time traveler from 1925, why did she talk like that?), Nic Cage is a genius but he'd be…