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Favorite films

  • Y Tu Mamá También
  • Nights of Cabiria
  • Singin' in the Rain
  • Revolver

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  • Moonstruck

  • The Postman

  • A Tale of Autumn

  • All About My Mother

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Rita, Sue and Bob Too

1987

★★½ Watched

Maybe rating should be higher but I can't the last time something made me so viscerally uncomfortable and disgusted

Nosferatu

2024

★★★ Watched

Liked: candlelight, costuming, color grading, which were all luscious and gothic. Ellen fleshed out as a sort of medium, the allegory for her libidinal development (Lily Rose Depp drew out a kind of primal sensuality Anya couldn't have)/ old vs. new world conflicts were done brilliantly. Dafoe -- self evident.

Disliked: hollywood gluttony e.g. dizzying sweeping shots, loud and overused sound effects, overly grotesque gore and prosthetic makeup, the possession stuff (maybe horror fans appreciate these though...). Herr Knock was…

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The Double Life of Véronique

1991

★★★★★ Liked Watched

furious I saw this after Amelie

The Green Ray

1986

★★★★½ Liked Watched

A movie with a perfect essence of feminine ennui. Delphine is defensive, stubborn, self-pitying, unambitious, cries at a hair-trigger, avoidant, and close minded. But she is also endearingly superstitious, playful, perceptive, and self-assured in her desires. She elicits frustration and disdain in one moment, empathy and love in another. In eschewing the expected social dances, Delphine was following her own path all along, traipsing through dreamy landscapes and vignettes of summer clad in primary colors. A timely stranger and fellow…

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