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Favorite films

  • Mädchen in Uniform
  • The Adventures of Prince Achmed
  • Daughters of the Dust
  • A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night

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  • Belladonna of Sadness

    ★★★½

  • Five Fingers of Death

    ★★★½

  • Magnificent Warriors

    ★★★★½

  • Drunken Master

    ★★★★

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  • Five Fingers of Death

    Five Fingers of Death

    ★★★½

    Takes its time patiently setting up its character dynamics and motivations. Then it hits you with a bloody, cathartic, ELECTRIC final act

  • Premonitions Following an Evil Deed

    Premonitions Following an Evil Deed

    ★★★★½

    Still perhaps my favorite thing Lynch has ever done.

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  • The Last Warning

    The Last Warning

    ★★★

    The Last Warning is all cobwebs and dark hallways and twisted staircases and murder. In other words, it's all frosting and no cake, but it's a good sugar rush.

    I think a solid case could be made for Paul Leni as one of the great silent movie directors; his technical precision holding up even among the likes of Murnau, Eisenstein, Von Sternberg, Chaplin, or Dreyer. He knows exactly where to place a shot— if not for an emotional or logistical…

  • Gothic

    Gothic

    ★★★½

    This is maybe the most I’ve ever changed my mind about a film? I gave this 1½ stars on my original viewing three years ago, and I distinctly remember the bad taste it left in my mouth. I felt it was loud and convoluted, dancing around a great number of lofty themes without ever really digging into any of them. The sex and violence and bizarre imagery seemed there simply for shock value; it played more like a parody of…