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Favorite films

  • Persona
  • Le Samouraï
  • Perfect Blue
  • Requiem for a Dream

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  • Godland

    ★★½

  • The Zone of Interest

    ★★★★

  • Portrait of Jason

    ★★½

  • Metalocalypse: Army of the Doomstar

    ★★★½

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Godland

2022

★★½ Watched

"Sometimes someone has to die so someone else can be born."

Inspired by seven photographs of the Icelandic coast, Godland (Vanskabte land in its original Danish) is the story of Lucas (Elliott Crosset Hove), a Lutheran priest who travels to the remote island to oversee the construction of a church there.
He enlists the help of a local man, Ragnar (Ingvar Sigurdsson), as a guide but is soon confronted with the inhospitable nature of Iceland's landscape and a cold reception…

The Zone of Interest

2023

★★★★ Watched

"The life we enjoy is very much worth the sacrifice."

Debuting a whole decade after his arthouse sci-fi horror piece Under the Skin, Jonathan Glazer's The Zone of Interest offers a glimpse into the mundane reality behind history's biggest atrocity.
Based on the novel of the same name, The Zone of Interest centers on the family of Rudolf (Christian Friedel) and Hedwig Höss (Sandra Hüller), the SS Kommandant in charge of the Auschwitz and his wife who live on a…

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Caligula

1979

½ 3

Don't watch Caligula.

Seriously, don't watch it.

Caligula is a complete waste of 2 and a half hours of your life. The movie has no sense of direction or what it wants to be. It wants to be a biopic of the eponymous Roman emperor, a hardcore porn flick and political satire all at the same time. It's really sad to see the protagonist of A Clockwork Orange and Peter O'Toole debasing themselves by starring in it. The music was…

Princes of the Yen

2014

★★★★½ Liked Watched

The Lost Decade, Japan's period of zero growth in the 90s following their phenomenal rise as a rising economy in the 80s, is one of those subjects people have heard about on the Internet but don't exactly know much about.
The usual reason given for this turn in Japan's fortunes is the Plaza Accord, a treaty between Japan, America and Europe that ended up gimping their economy but this isn't the whole story.
Princes of the Yen, a documentary based…