TJ Price

TJ Price

I like weird, symbolic, multi-layered films the most, but I'm also an ardent fan of disaster movies and just plain weird shit.

Favorite films

  • The Empty Man
  • Upstream Color
  • Twister
  • Dead Man

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  • The Timekeepers of Eternity

  • Synchronic

    ★★★

  • The Third Man

    ★★★★★

  • Cosmopolis

    ★★★

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  • The Outwaters

    The Outwaters

    No

  • Interstellar

    Interstellar

    ★★★

    Good lord that was ponderous and overwrought. Some good cinematography though.

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  • The Black Tower

    The Black Tower

    ★★★★★

    Brilliant, haunting, weird. Definitely of its time, but worth the watch. Reminds me of Thomas Ligotti's short stories. Minimal cinematic elements and a bare-bones narrative combine to make an effectively unnerving film.

  • mother!

    mother!

    ★★★

    There's something to be said for artistic freedom; for being able to create in a space where the stuffy diktat of one's inner critic cannot intrude.  There's also something to be said for extrapolating meaning out of a film which actively resists formal logic, or which actively embraces the surreal.  I can even find joy in experiencing the weird wonder of a poem that seems to describe one thing in one line but coyly hints at another, deeper feeling, when…

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