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2024

★★★★ Watched 19 May 2025

Sean Baker is the most effective anti-fairytale fairytale teller working in cinema today.

1989

★★★★★ Liked Rewatched 18 May 2025

My small piece of advice to any aspiring first time filmmaker. If you want an instant and budget efficient way to give your first short or feature a style, study Jim Jarmusch and Hal Hartley. Specifically the limits they put on themselves in of the look of their films. The more limits you put on your look the more style you are likely to achieve. Limit movement of the camera, for example. Or cutting to close ups. Choose one…

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1977

★★★★★ Liked 2

Dear Mr. Lynch,

Thank you for the primordial weird you introduced me to at a formidable age. Thank you for teaching me to look at cinema in a new way. You will always be my Luis Buñuel filtered through the myth of the American Midwest, buttoned up shirts, sock hops, Dairy Queen, strong cigarettes, black coffee, cherry pie, Pabst Blue Ribbon, promise rings, letterman jackets, drive-in movies and all the nasty stuff that bubbles just underneath. Hopefully you’re at a Bob’s…

2024

★★★★½ 2

Name a filmmaker working today who is better than Robert Eggers at transporting you to another time and place. Eggers doesn’t just make movies, he makes immersive experiences. No detail ever feels out of place. Not for a single nanosecond do you question the authenticity of every single frame of his films. And I haven’t seen such exquisite candle lit interiors since Barry Lyndon. Outstanding.

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