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Favorite films

  • The Royal Tenenbaums
  • Reservoir Dogs
  • Fargo
  • Big Fish

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  • Eephus

    ★★★½

  • Edvard Munch

    ★★★½

  • Universal Language

    ★★★★★

  • Nobody

    ★★★

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  • Universal Language

    Universal Language

    ★★★★★

    A beautiful little film that brought me the rare joy of discovering a movie so perfectly aligned with my thematic and aesthetic tastes. I wish I could live in this fictional Winnipeg, and I embrace our new overlords: Manitoba (not Alberta) magical realism.

    On another note, for three quarters of the film, I couldn’t help but wonder about how the Persian word for ‘turkey’ could have possibly come to mean ‘chameleon’ in Turkish.

  • I'm Still Here

    I'm Still Here

    ★★★★½

    When you think about it, it really is astonishing how much effort militaries around the world put into making the human experience as miserable as possible

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  • Mulholland Drive

    Mulholland Drive

    ★★★★

    Roses are red,
    My life is a lie,
    Billy Ray Cyrus
    …is in Mulholland Drive?????

  • High Fidelity

    High Fidelity

    ★★★★

    Ode to a dying culture. Massive respect to the kids out there pocketing Ryuichi Sakamoto and Serge Gainsbourg records :') This made for a fun double feature: High Fidelity & cat videos the woman across the aisle was watching on her phone for half the flight.

    Includes zingers like:

    — Do you have soul?
    — Well, that depends.

    And deep cuts such as: "All I’m saying is, you have to allow for things to happen to people. Most of all, to yourself."