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Favorite films

  • The Young Girls of Rochefort
  • This Is Spinal Tap
  • Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
  • Nashville

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  • Camp de Thiaroye

    ★★★★

  • Wilderness Series

  • Liquidator

  • Babbler, Fairy and Thrush

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  • Gladiator

    Gladiator

    ★★★

    My rating is likely higher because I saw this again in a live score performance with the SF Symphony orchestra and chorus (which I also perform with, at other times). The score is robust and energizing though having it at the forefront also emphasized the repetitive nature of the story-telling, some of which feels symbolic (power sustaining itself and reifying itself through the exaltation of killing whether that is the Roman army in Germania or the gladiators in the arena)…

  • Leap Year

    Leap Year

    ★★½

    Serviceable sick day fare.

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  • The Hobbit

    The Hobbit

    ★★★½

    This was definitely one of the movies my parents had a homemade pirated VHS tape of and I watched a lot as a kid. Down to Goblin Town is still a banger, the story rips, and the animation feels like a storybook. Holds up.

  • The Night of the Hunter

    The Night of the Hunter

    ★★★½

    The lighting and shadow in this film was incredible and Robert Mitchum’s performance as a deeply amoral man cloaking himself in religious righteousness to wheedle his way into the lives of others was unforgettable. I also loved the abrupt tonal swings into slapstick that prove him fallible: a konk on the head, fingers in a door, a cat underfoot. However, I am really needled by over-the-top saccharine child acting and John and Pearl were basically intolerable for me to watch yet were onscreen almost the entire time.