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Watched on Wednesday May 21, 2025.

Watched on Wednesday May 21, 2025.

Forced a group to watch this for my birthday

Watched on Monday May 12, 2025.

Watched on Thursday May 8, 2025.

The 8th stage of grief.... conspiracy

Jack Torrence was already going insane

Palpatine = Dick Cheney

Kafkaesque

“Why?”

IMAX- 4K Restoration

Watched on Wednesday March 26, 2025.

Watched on Wednesday March 19, 2025.

Do you have little hunger or do you have great hunger?

Will be thinking about this for a while.

Genuinely well crafted portrait of a very specific type of man. In most cities of America I think if you went to the right part of town you could throw a rock a hit someone with traits similar to Mikey Saber. 

The charm of someone like Mikey wears off relatively fast.

Snake oil salesman selling nothing but bad luck, and he's his own biggest customer.

Watched on Sunday March 16, 2025.

Italian Fablemans

Don't come undone.

Watched on Thursday March 6, 2025.

Dogma 95 

VOWS OF CHASTITY:

1. Shooting must be done on location. Props and sets must not be brought in (if a particular prop is necessary for the story, a location must be chosen where this prop is to be found).

2. The sound must never be produced apart from the images or vice versa. (Music must not be used unless it occurs where the scene is being shot.)

3. The camera must be hand-held. Any movement or immobility attainable in the hand is permitted.

4. The film must be in colour. Special lighting is not acceptable. (If there is too little light for exposure the scene must be cut or a single lamp be attached to the camera.)

5. Optical work and filters are forbidden.

6. The film must not contain superficial action. (Murders, weapons, etc. must not occur.)

7. Temporal and geographical alienation are forbidden. (That is to say that the film takes place here and now.)

8. Genre movies are not acceptable.

9. The film format must be Academy 35 mm.

10. The director must not be credited.

Imagine decimating a French ship and then playing some Boccherini with your best bud.

Watched on Sunday March 2, 2025.

“It can be read in either one of two ways. One, that a miracle has occurred and his life is spared. The other is equally, in my sense, optimistic, which is that he drinks the Drano and he’s on all fours. He’s throwing up his stomach and God comes over to him, who has not talked to him for the whole movie, and says, “Reverend Toller, you wanna know what Heaven looks like? Here it it is. This is exactly what it looks like: It looks like one long kiss. And that’s the last thing he sees.”

-Paul Schrader 

Will God forgive us?

He forgave Toller….

Watched on Tuesday February 25, 2025.

Some of the most creative and impactful sound design ever in a motion picture. 

Sadly watched in the worst theatre with a viciously horrid sound system.

We’re being hypnotized, aren’t we? 

But why?

As enjoyable of a viewing experience as it can possibly get.

“I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me”

- Winston Churchill

When in doubt, ending a film with some Wagner seems to do the trick.

Nothing can compare to the catharsis felt at the end of this.

Watched on Sunday February 9, 2025.

Watched on Thursday February 6, 2025.

Watched on Wednesday February 5, 2025.

Fang: It seems like Blue Velvet is an
'80s film noir, with its ive central character, many of the trademark shots of the noir films, you have the person getting involved with something over which he has no control. Did you ever think about that aspect?

Lynch: I love film noir, but this is a neighborhood film in my mind. It's still dark and still deals with certain themes that noir dealt with, but I didn't think "I want to do a film noir kind of picture."

Fang: What do you mean by a
"neighborhood film"?

Lynch: It takes place in a neighborhood.

Watched on Wednesday January 29, 2025.

Lynch’s meditation on the OJ Simpson murders. 

How can a man who has brutally murdered his wife go on living with himself?

Lynch proposes this man’s mind will break, and trick itself to forget who he once was (a psychogenic fugue).

And yet, a small part of your mind (represented by the mystery man in the film) will continue reminding itself of the TRUE past. What really happened, not just how one re it. 

Each time he is confronted by the past, the mind will trick itself again, and again, and again. Over and over and over, forever tormented by the past. Running forever from one’s own self.

EPISODE 8- Gotta Light?

On June 25, 2017 a cable network (Showtime) aired a one-hour experimental film on the origins of evil out to the entire world. Masterfully directed. In my opinion, it’s Lynch’s best work since Ereaserhead. 

While the 18 part series does truly feel like an 18 hour film, this specific hour stands in its own lane. A singular work in its own right. 

Lynch’s imagery isn't reaching out to us; we're sinking into it. Like all of Lynch’s best work, it casts a spell onto the audience, luring them deeper and deeper into his own subconscious.

Watched on Thursday January 16, 2025.

Watched on Thursday January 16, 2025.

This review may contain spoilers.

Damning and redeeming simultaneously. 

Beautiful black and white photography serving as an engine for a deeply profound screenplay. 

Deafening silences, and disguised loneliness. A world of glamorous hedonism, and desperate relationships between people with eroded and hollowed out souls.

Even when Giovani is shown the evidence of his faded love, he pretends to yearn for Lidia. Hiding his empty love behind his own narcissism.

“A typical intellectual. Egotistical, but comionate.”

The film leans back, so that you may lean  forward.

The dreams and memories of Andrei Tarkovsky, available to anyone right here in this film.

“It's a film about you, your father, your grandfather, about someone who will live after you and who is still "you". About a Man who lives on the earth, is a part of the earth and the earth is a part of him, about the fact that a man is answerable for his life both to the past and to the future. You have to watch this film simply, and listen to the music of Bach and the poems of Arseniy Tarkovsky; watch it as one watches the stars, or the sea, as one ires a landscape. There is no mathematical logic here, for it cannot explain what man is or what is the meaning of his life.”

- Andrei Tarkovsky

4 words of love: eros, philia, agape, and food.

Does evil come from within us? Or from beyond?

Watched on Thursday December 26, 2024.

Watched on Tuesday December 24, 2024.

Watched on Tuesday December 24, 2024.

Don’t worry, I’m a doctor. See, here’s my New York Medical Board License.

When Nietzsche goes to far

Tapping into in your room from across the universe <3

Watched on Thursday December 5, 2024.

“There's no star, no one person is important, everybody is; you are as important as I can be. It's a democracy of gags and comics - the personality of people regarding an architecture that people have decided for us to live in, without asking us whether we agree or not. In the end, we all win in the sense that we still talk to each other; if anything goes wrong, we're still partners, and some small people are still allowed to be important.

It's a little bit like a ballet. At the beginning, the people's movements always follow the architecture, they never make a curve, they go from one line to another. The more the picture continues, the more the people dance, and start to make curves, and turn around, and start to be absolutely round - because we have decided that we're still there.

The images are designed so that after you see the picture two or three times, it's no longer my film, it starts to be your film. You recognize the people, you know them, and you don't even know who directed the picture. Playtime is nobody.”

-Jacques Tati

Bewilderingly increidible acting performances

• There Will Be Blood

  Daniel Day-Lewis

• TÁR

  Cate Blanchett 

• Birth

  Nicole Kidman

• The Master

  Joaquin Pheonix and Phil Hoffman

• Lawrence of Arabia

  Peter OTool

• Eraserhead
• Punch-Drunk Love
• After Hours
• Blue Velvet
• Vertigo
• Phantom Thread
• The Tree of Life
• Twin Peaks: The Return
• The Mission
• The Master

...plus 10 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.