Favorite films

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  Dune 1984

  ★★★ Watched 24 Mar 2025

  Tbh I enjoyed it more than I thought I would, I was bracing myself beforehand but turns out there was some great stuff here. The film's questionable storytelling aside, the original Dune story itself doesn't even intrigue me at all, but this at least succeeds at being visually engaging on top of it all. And Kyle MacLachlan is there so. Even with the extremely dated editing it's all very fun to me, some amazing sets & costumes & practical effects. But of course one can't help but wonder what it would've been like had we gotten Lynch's full vision

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  Shiva Baby 2020

  ★★ Watched 23 Mar 2025

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

Popular reviews

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  Inland Empire 2006

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 15 Jan 2025 1

  I figured that tonight I’d revisit my favorite Lynch (and one of my all-time favorites). Inland Empire has genuinely become the biggest of my artistic influences. Even now, it’s near impossible for me to articulate how I feel about it besides being immensely grateful that Lynch dared to create it. Transcendental cinema. A patriarchal nightmare labryinth, a woman in trouble, traversing her hellscape of trauma that is simultaneously internal and external, the two constantly bleeding into each other — leaving…

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  Look Back 2024

  ★★★★★ Watched 07 Oct 2024 1

  OH. MY. GOODDDD. I couldn't believe my eyes and ears. Alright, I sat down to write a review but I'm not sure I can piece my thoughts together coherently yet, I just think it's a perfect adaptation of Fujimoto's manga (and dare I say the best so far).

  Look Back is a story with a beating human heart at the center of it. The blood is pumped through every single page. I'm floored by the fact that Oshiyama so faithfully…