Trevor Silverstein

Trevor Silverstein

what I see, what I like and maybe why.

Favorite films

  • Something Wild
  • Inherent Vice
  • Cabaret
  • Parasite

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  • Mickey 17

  • Amadeus

  • Afire

  • The Brutalist

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  • Amadeus

    Amadeus

    Gee, I sure hope the emperor’s sister Antoinette had a good time in France!

  • Afire

    Afire

    I guess if I’m like any character in the film, it’s probably the tragically hunky bisexual lifeguard. Definitely not the repressed sourpuss writer who is more of a disposable personal assistant than artist in his own right. Never even heard of that kind of guy to be honest. Feels almost like this movie invented that guy it’s so foreign and unknown a concept to me.

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  • Lonely Oaks

    Lonely Oaks

    Deeply moved by this. The examinations and reflections on the boundaries of activism are interesting but the film is truly alive when in Steffen Meyn’s hands (or, mostly, on his head). Which is an incredible achievement that the directors could give a feeling that he is the entire lifeforce of this film. Especially in the respect they pay for his creativity in the face of boundaries between activism, journalism, art and nature (both human and tree). And that’s all connected…

  • Inherent Vice

    Inherent Vice

    I just re-read the book and my sister hadn’t seen it before, so I said “I will never say no to watching this movie.”

    It was interesting because she was baffled by most of the movie but I noticed that every question she asked out loud was exactly the question the film seemed to be provoking at that moment and often right at a moment where Doc himself is approaching a truth or an answer to a specific question and…