Favorite films

Pinned reviews

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  Grantham Overgrown (Infinite Regression) 2021

  Rewatched 13 Jul 2022

  Currently available to watch over at the Exquisite Shorts Program

Recent reviews

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  Hidden City 1987

  Watched 26 Nov 2024

  What a strange object. Equal parts parodic and pastiche and surreal and yet frequently feels quite sinister, capturing a ultra specific London of London (the Keiller version) that moves on through archetypal London before spilling into this vivid artificial playground (like the Paris of Tati's PlayTime). A thriller devoid of tension till it's suddenly spiked with serious dread, a drama devoid of the dramatic till shards of humanity pierce the perfunctory—both of these ramping up with the introduction of a…

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  One Hundred and One Nights 1995

  Watched 15 Dec 2023

  Varda does Greenaway?

Popular reviews

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  ABBA: The Movie 1977

  Watched 21 Jan 2018 23

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  ABBA – The Movie: A ludicrous yarn about a real-life future sex criminal DJ trying to get an interview with a band in the most unprofessional way possible. Also one of the most exciting film experiences I've ever had.

  ABBA are... the definition of acquired taste.

  The definition of exacting, of commercial, of a certain kind of mass mainstreaming of culture that just doesn't exist any more, where every rough edge is shorn off lest it offend someone,…

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  Another Gay Sequel: Gays Gone Wild! 2008

  Watched 19 Dec 2016 1

  So unlike anything that has existed before, so relentlessly unrepresentative of how human beings act and interact, so uninterested in what human beings watch and respond to that it's almost a bold and transcendent new form of cinema. Almost.