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Favorite films

  • Princess Mononoke
  • Groundhog Day
  • The Master
  • Alien

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  • The Music Man

  • I Saw the TV Glow

    ★★★★½

  • Hail, Caesar!

    ★★★★

  • Mulholland Drive

    ★★★★★

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  • The Music Man

    The Music Man

    My takeaways, from watching this with Scott Aukerman, Bing Lujo, and Dr. Bill Blondie, are that not enough musicals have the characters pop into outer space, and that the town absolutely should have paid Harold Hill just for the joy he clearly repeatedly brought them. The scam was completely unnecessary!

  • I Saw the TV Glow

    I Saw the TV Glow

    ★★★★½

    What this movie does with color and lighting would probably be enough to net its rating all on it's own. And it's not even that these are some of the most beautifully saturated shots since Suspiria, it's how varied and inventive all of the light sources they used all. I could just bathe in some of these scenes. The flicker of a tv has a long established visual history, but one of my favorites has always been Does It Look…

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  • Mulholland Drive

    Mulholland Drive

    ★★★★★

    It's an absolute magic trick, the way this film constantly, incessantly, in so so many different ways tells you how fake every little thing you see in this town is, and yet I can't stop myself from believing. Even on this second go round.

    But fake is very different than not real.

    Sold out showing at Wealthy Theatre, how phenomenal to see this (my God, Rebekah!) as it was intended.

  • It Doesn’t Get Any Better Than This

    It Doesn’t Get Any Better Than This

    ★★★★

    An excellent follower of The Blair Witch Project's footsteps (I mean, just look at the poster here), and given my love for that film, that is a huge compliment. Once again, I can't help but stare as these terrible people fall apart in real time, absolutely unable to stop filming, horribly, doomedly dedicated to their project. With the lens between them and the danger that lurks, how could they not be protected from it? What easier way to turn something…