Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Long Day's Journey into Night 2018

  ★★★★★ Watched 20 Jan 2025

  The past two years I‘ve been entrapped in a period of limerence. A conscious invasion of my mind in which I can hardly escape thinking about her. These moments in life that I replay and meditate upon have become ghosts who lack definite shape. I recall when she said, „I love you,“ or when our eyes met kindly, yet, even now, they are mere weights which keep my eyes closed. In a sense my memory transformed into a dream which…

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  Babylon 2022

  ★★½ Watched 31 Dec 2024

  Chazelle clearly loves this era of cinema, but only the idea of his love is transmitted to me. Characters uneven and undeserving of the 189 minutes used to tell their story.

Popular reviews

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  The Impossible Voyage 1904

  ★★★★½ Watched 26 Jun 2020

  The ship fucking exploded and they just started dancing.

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  2001: A Space Odyssey 1968

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 10 Nov 2020 4

  The Greatest Film of All Time: 2001: A Space Odyssey
  
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  Reading Time: 7 min. 22 sec. 

  “I’m putting myself to the fullest possible use, which is all I think that any conscience entity could ever hope to do.” (“HAL 9000”)

  Stanley Kubrick has been proclaimed an idiosyncratic and a perfectionist. Both terms are correct, and it shows the most in his nineteen sixty-eight film, 2001: A Space Odyssey, which is the greatest, most personal, and truest depiction of humanity…