There Will Be Blake

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Favorite films

  • Before Sunrise
  • Paris, Texas
  • A Nightmare on Elm Street
  • Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me

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  • Bedtime Stories

    ★★★

  • Flow

    ★★★½

  • Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason

    ★★½

  • What's Up, Doc?

    ★★★★

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  • Blow-Up

    Blow-Up

    ★★★

    Really appreciated a lot of what Blow-Up was doing on a thematic and intellectual level. I wasn't prepared for it to be such a meditative, cynical statement on the production of art and ego but I liked the ideas explored.

    I will say though I got a bit filtered by the emotional barrier the film had up, I just wasn't able to connect with it beyond saying "huh, that was interesting" afterwards.

    The scene at the rock gig was class though, really felt like a thesis statement for the whole film!

  • The Bikeriders

    The Bikeriders

    ★★★

    The best movie my Nan has seen in the theatre since The Beach (2000).
    The first movie my Nan has seen in the theatre since The Beach (2000).

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  • The Astronomer's Dream

    The Astronomer's Dream

    ★★★★

    This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  • Wake in Fright

    Wake in Fright

    ★★★★

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    "What's the matter with him? He'd rather talk to a woman than drink?"
    "Schoolteacher."
    "Oh."

    From the very first shot, 'Wake in Fright' lets you know that there is no escape. The sweeping 360 degree pan of empty Australian outback is the perfect mood setter, an empty landscape serving as a synecdoche of sorts for the value of whatever life is unfortunate enough to occupy the…