Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  The X-Ray Fiend 1897

  ★★★★ Rewatched 03 Feb 2025

  Pure Joy.

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  Nosferatu 2024

  ★★ Watched 10 Jan 2025

  This film is a colour palette with cheekbones. Incredibly lifeless corpse of a film both visually, tonally and narratively. It finally glimpses at something interesting in a moment about "appetite" and desire, but never really develops it much beyond that. By the end of the thing I couldn't really get what it was trying to say. Dafoe's monologe was...perplexing.

  Sex will kill you, kids. Get those urges under control.

  I enjoyed Lighthouse but with each successive film Eggers is showing himself to be a really uninteresting director.

Popular reviews

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  Fear and Desire 1952

  ★★ Watched 30 Dec 2020

  When Orson Welles was around 24 he made Citizen Kane. When Kubrick was roughly the same age he made this. I wouldn't be surprised if his disparaging comments later on about the film were in some part coloured by this fact. By those standards "Fear and Desire" seems a terrible feature. As an first film by an independent director with a small budget and a smaller crew, it's quite remarkable in a lot of its shot compositions and some of…

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  Legend of the Mountain 1979

  ★★★ Watched 22 Jun 2020

  The weakest of the four Hu film's I've seen. A bit long, a bit meandering, but with how well it is shot, and how beautiful the landscapes, not at all unwelcome for it.

  There are some fantastic visual sequences here, and the use of practical effects and colour hits just the right mood for me. The almost avant-garde sequences of magical drummings were worth watching alone.

  Story wise- simple, but fine. Nothing revelatory or shocking. it did it's job.

  I…