James

James

Favorite films

  • Baraka
  • Pan's Labyrinth
  • Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
  • Perfect Blue

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  • Sideways

    ★★★★★

  • The Lost Boys

    ★★★★

  • Stop Making Sense

    ★★★★★

  • Rashomon

    ★★★★

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  • Dune

    Dune

    ★★★★★

    Move over, Ville-nerd. This David Lynch guy made the ultimate sci-fi with this stupid fucking movie.

  • Memento

    Memento

    ★★★★★

    Uno momento, por favor: need to gather my thoughts on this one. Wild ride, the way it twists back on itself and reveals its trump cards… innovative storytelling and this is probably better than Nolan’s big blockbusters.

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  • All of Us Strangers

    All of Us Strangers

    ★★★★★

    What if we could talk to the people who have left us? What if we could say it all differently this time? Mesmerising, wild, miserable, this queer gothic tale features two career-best-so-far performances from Andrew Scott and Paul Mescal.

    A sad, quiet, cathartic exploration of familial acceptance and the beauty of connection, however transitory.

  • Beau Is Afraid

    Beau Is Afraid

    ★★★

    This was only okay, unfortunately. 

    First hour or so was amazing. Well-constructed and dynamic. It could even be a film short if it lost a few pounds - and since this originated from an Aster short, I stand by this.

    So many cool funny details. The fact that one reason Beau is so afraid is because he lives in a hyper-violent skid row where a knife-wielding maniac called Birthday Boy Stab Man, well, stabs people? Comedy gold. The tabloid newspaper…

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