Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  The French Dispatch 2021

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 19 Mar 2025

  A love letter to people

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  Blue Velvet 1986

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 16 Mar 2025

  You know what a love letter is?
  It’s a bullet from a fucking gun

  Seen with introduction and interview after by Director of photography Frederick Elmes

Popular reviews

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  Memoria 2021

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 04 May 2023

  I had the unspeakably amazing experience of watching this for the second time at Lincoln Center, followed by a Q&A with the Director Himself, Apichatpong Weerasethakul. After the beautiful silence that followed the cut to black, I was given an extraordinary opportunity to ask him a question- to speak to Weerasethakul in person- so I asked him: “is there a reason so many of your films are inspired by death?”

  Here’s what he said:

  “I think so- Because I grew…

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  Oppenheimer 2023

  ★ Watched 21 Jul 2023 3

  Better believe I did the Barbenheimer. And you know what? Barbie was better written.

  A cool experience in 35mm. But a few great moments don’t make a piece of art, and you don’t either by just mixing up the scenes and screaming at the audience the whole time. So much of this would be better if Christopher Nolan knew what the fuck he was doing. And I don’t care whose perspective you choose to take up, pay respect to the…