tonyteetwo

tonyteetwo

My favorite theater shut down abruptly and now I’m gonna make it everyone’s problem

Favorite films

  • The Empire Strikes Back
  • Boyhood
  • Napoleon Dynamite
  • Stand by Me

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  • Mulholland Drive

  • Anora

    ★★★★½

  • Saturday Night

    ★★★½

  • Megalopolis

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  • Mulholland Drive

    Mulholland Drive

    I’ve always been apprehensive to jump into David Lynch’s artistry in a focused capacity, but I’ve been surrounded by it for a large portion of my life. I think the scope of his creativity and how that’s channeled in his works has always overwhelmed me from the outside and kept me from going too far down the rabbit hole in lieu of an uncomfortable, insatiable obsession. I saw clips of Eraserhead at a young age that borderline traumatized me. I…

  • Anora

    Anora

    ★★★★½

    They took a premise that had the (negative) potential to be Hangover-levels of campy and “fun” and gave it a soul that made it feel so intimately organic, both visually and in its performances. It’s funny when it needs to be (and even when it doesn’t), grounded to its core, and downright devastating at times. Everyone made their characters’ respective cliches feel less so but Mikey Madison absolutely blew it out of the water. The ending broke my heart, but the chaos had to end somewhere. Palme d’Eserved

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  • Megalopolis

    Megalopolis

    It’s been 12 hours since I walked out of the theater and I still don’t think that’s an adequate time span to process what the hell I watched. Did I like it? Did I hate it? I don’t know. Am I glad something like this exists? Wholeheartedly yes.

    You can absolutely tell Coppola has had this thing in his head for 40 years, and I don’t know the guy, but I’d wager it still didn’t live up to his personal…

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