Favorite films

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  The Mother and the Whore 1973

  Watched 30 Mar 2017

  Sternberg lights a room and we find its spiritual essence; Eustache does the same and we see its absence.

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  Silvia Prieto 1999

  Watched 18 Jan 2017

  I think Rejtman particularly affects those familiar with a specific kind of urban alienation. It's neither claustrophobic nor agoraphobic. Instead it's a somnambulant daily routine governed by minor impulses; a mundane erotic power trip of anonymity that's maybe intensified among friends and lovers who could care less.

Popular reviews

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  Ten Days' Wonder 1971

  ★★★★ Watched 21 Mar 2015

  Devoting a single, otherwise disparaging and dismissive paragraph to the film, Perkins biographer Charles Winecoff ends his discussion of this apparent Last Year at Marienbad spoof by declaring, "The most interesting scenes in the film are those in which Perkins appears shirtless, displaying the impressive fruits of his rigid dieting and bodybuilding."

  Upon witnessing the quality of Geraldine Chaplin's performance (raw, mysterious, and most impressive to Perkins, real) while filming Remember My Name, Perkins was reduced to tears. He threatened…

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  Love on the Ground 1984

  Watched 04 Feb 2016

  Further evidence that no space in Rivette is not empty, not haunted, even when occupied. Here it's a mansion full of characters strewn apart by the mingling of failed past relationships and presently precarious ones. The autobiographical play that was meant to rewrite history ends up renewing it. A key one hopes is the key to a heart is in fact the unwanted freedom to come and go. Some, however, know the burden of being locked in a room. The…

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