Favorite films

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  August in the Water 1995

  Watched 08 Mar 2025

  a new favorite. this is a film that somehow engages every sense. it left me feeling scared of reality, in a good way.

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  Red Rooms 2023

  Watched 04 Mar 2025

  i feel ill. in an honest world this would be one of the defining films of the early 21st century.

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  The Big Lebowski 1998

  Rewatched 08 Jan 2025

  rewatched this for the first time in years and found myself deeply moved by the way philip seymour hoffman's nostrils flare when he's nervous laughing.

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  Zama 2017

  Watched 03 Dec 2022

  plays all the hits:

  - the protagonist is a pathetic, repulsive man with few to no redeeming qualities who is largely the cause of his own suffering.

  - the protagonist's life is a barely comprehensible labyrinth of cruelty and disappointment whose escape is clouded by the evil he represents and perpetuates; a hell maybe not of his own design but which he rigorously maintains.

  - the historical setting is ugly and unvarnished (the better to depict colonialism) but still vibrant and full of human detail (the better to depict the perseverance of indigeneity).

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