Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Un Chien Andalou 1929

  ★★½ Watched 01 May 2024

  An experiment in undermining heuristics of narrative instead, at least to my eyes, presages shit like tiktok humour or youtube baby brainrot videos - wavering between corrosively uninteresting as the sheer desperation to try and grab attention becomes overwhelming, all the way to being stupidly hilarious. Here Bunuel seems to be against visual connotation, refusing to accept either the interpretations that we build based off what we think about in daily life or the interpretations that culture and history implants…

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  The Conversation 1974

  ★★★★★ Watched 02 May 2024

  In some way God is in every place; and this is to be everywhere.

  - St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologicae Question 8 Article 2

Popular reviews

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  Past Lives 2023

  ★★★★½ Watched 06 Aug 2023 3

  Celine Song's masterpiece debut lives in the possible worlds extending thousands of lifetimes in past and future, and while we never see the fantasies of what could have been they exert just as real a force as anything else manifest in our reality. As devastating and honest as this movie can be sometimes, it feels like Past Lives really believes in understanding and compassion as being at the core of our existence, whether we know it or not. Above being…

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  The Rooster 2023

  ★★★ Watched 05 Aug 2023

  Another proud entry into the "just dudes being dudes" subgenre a la Lighthouse and Face/Off. Hugo Weaving really knocks it out of the park in this one.

  This is a deeply personal work for the director so it feels bad to quarrel with the emotional aspect for his film, but I felt that many of the details of these men's lives were reverse engineered for maximum dramatic impact - as if Winter was pulling from a box of familiar culturally…