Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Samsara 2023

  Watched 15 Mar 2025

  the bardo section of this film is unlike anything i’ve experienced in a movie before. it truly moved me and then also confused me in the context of an ethnographic film that appears to be made by a white european guy. cinema is wild…

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  Ghost 1990

  Rewatched 03 Mar 2025

  this was one of the vhs tapes my mom and i had when i was a kid and we watched it so many times, even now decades later it feels baked into my brain. iconic whoopi performance.

Popular reviews

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  All the Beauty and the Bloodshed 2022

  Watched 09 Jan 2023

  incredibly moving doc that does an impressive job weaving together the many dimensions of Nan’s life and body of work. one of the best movies on art, community and activism i’ve ever seen.

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  In the Mirror of Maya Deren 2002

  Watched 23 Mar 2020 1

  worth it alone to hear stan brakhage describe how she once threw a fridge across a room and then lit his jacket on fire