Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Spotlight 2015

  ★★½ Watched 25 Mar 2016

  This really won Best Picture? I'm having a hard time with that. It really had none of the emotional punch that other nominees had. I'm by no means belittling the situation it portrays but I found it rather lifeless. Or maybe it was too realistic. I don't know. Mark Ruffalo's doing his best impression of Ray Romano. The acting was really not that great here. There was absolutely no awe-inspiring camerawork. There really isn't a moment in the film that's…

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  The Fits 2015

  ★★★★★ Watched 24 Oct 2015

  I very proudly worked on this film as a production assistant and an art assistant. Just letting you know... my rating is biased. This was the first film I worked on and it's also the first film I've worked on that I've gotten to see the finished product. And I have to say what a strange and beautiful experience that is. It's very hard to watch a movie you worked on because it's so easy to get distracted by all…

Popular reviews

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  Passage of Venus 1874

  ★★★★ Watched 16 Jan 2015

  Fascinating because it's one of the rarest predictable astronomical phenomena and because it predates Muybridge's horse galloping by 4 years (Muybridge was busy murdering his wife's lover at the time).

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  Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus 2006

  ★★★★★ Watched 14 Oct 2014

  I've passed this film up for the longest time. I have a deep affinity for Diane Arbus's photography. I found her view of the world and all of its oddities very influential to what I wanted to find in my own creative endeavors. And so this film has been one I've wanted to see, but I think because of how it was marketed, I shied away from it for so long. I unfortunately was judging a movie by its cover…