Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  The World at War 1973

  ★★★★½ Watched 31 Mar 2023

  Incredible filmmaking, informative and a visual treat with distinctive graphics, phenomenal archival footage, and enlightening interviews. The politics are unreliable but come as no real surprise given the time frame. I can also highly fucking highly recommend this as something to fall asleep to.

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  Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 2011

  ★★★ Watched 17 Feb 2023

  They really stop and I do mean STOP in the middle of their godamn tracks when they return to being blockbusters after having spent a solid chunk of runtime shapeshifting as decent movies.

Popular reviews

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  The Koumiko Mystery 1965

  ★★★★ Watched 29 Jul 2019 1

  I find it pretty reductionist that one of the most popular reviews of this film accuses Chris Marker of misogynist fetishism. The Tokyo Olympics of 1964 were for many the first exposure to a non-enemy Japan, so a film made concurrently cannot be viewed as yet another in a long line of anything, it would be a new thing regardless. Secondly, it's obvious with Sans Soleil that Marker's fascination with Japan ran much deeper than mere libido.

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  La luna 2011

  ★★★★★ Watched 14 Mar 2014

  I hesitate to give 5 stars but films' with this much imagination get no less. Georges Méliès would have been proud