willylamb

willylamb

Favorite films

  • Le Samouraï
  • Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion
  • The Lego Batman Movie
  • Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters

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  • Children of Paradise

  • Heretic

  • Canon

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  • Heretic

    Heretic

    You should not be allowed to make horror movies ‘about’ anything ever again… A24 ought to lock their directors in a shack in the woods without internet for one month (minimum) before they’re allowed to pitch anything… but in terms of pushing cinema forward, this film has brought it to my attention that every movie made could, potentially, include a different version of “Creep” on its soundtrack, and this, I believe, is not a minor discovery.

  • A Complete Unknown

    A Complete Unknown

    Timmy provides a performance so good it puts all the other actors in this to shame, which is kinda what I imagine Bon Dylan’s actual presence does to people around him, so maybe accidentally a perfect portrayal? 

    Also idk why people keep talking about Mangold’s “traditional” filmmaking when this is like 100 tiktok skits strung together. The title refers to many things but one of them is the actual film’s plot line.

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  • If Anything Happens I Love You

    If Anything Happens I Love You

    ½

    Manipulative and animated at approximately 1fps. "Making you cry" is not a litmus test for quality art; it is, more often than not, a sign that a film does not want to treat its subject matter with any degree of subtlety. Yes, dead children are sad; it doesn't fix the fact that the film doesn't actually say anything about its subject, that it doesn't actually say anything substantive about the problem of school shootings; instead, "If Anything Happens I Love…

  • The Boy and the Heron

    The Boy and the Heron

    Duolingo

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