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creepy little bugger got what he deserves

wooh boy, Radu Jude doesn't make easy movies, huh?
and he doesn't pull any punches either. this is a heady blend of fiction, documentary, theatre, and history lesson, and somehow Jude and his fantastic team make it work.

an amazing movie that unfortunately has only become more relevant since its initial release.
i'm exhausted but also too upset to go to bed.
mulțumesc, Radu.

Watched on Tuesday June 3, 2025.

watched this out of curiousity and i'm sorry but i don't get the hype at all.

it felt so toothless and mediocre i'm baffled that it managed to stir such strong emotions.

there's nothing here that you can't find in your usual crime fare, i've seen criminal minds episodes that handled teenage murder/murderer better. it's technically better, more grounded, and has better acting than most crime dramas, the long takes are impressive but except for ep 3 they felt too gimmicky to me, the camera often too floaty.

but really nothing could distract me from how utterly gutless adolecence is at its core. every timid blow it dare take gets soften right away. a few times it feels like they might dig deeper but do they? really? or is the acting so good that we think they do?

a few times i wondered what the heck could have caused some people to draw the conclusion that the internet is to blame and to thus want to ban social media for kids. i think even one of the creators said so? but that's not there. the series doesn't draw you to this conclusion because it is too gutless, too toothless to take the bite. it meanders around, and let's lazy people fill the gap at then end with their preconceived opinion. thus the internet.

i don't know, i'm probably talking out my ass.....

Watched on Monday June 2, 2025.

a groovy time with a charming joaquin as a hippie detective tripping through some convoluted conspiracy crime shit in 70s los angeles. i dig it!

really didn't expect to enjoy this so much but i laughed so much and hard, fantastic movie and what a killer ending!

Watched on Saturday May 31, 2025.

tres bien ❤️

it's camp, it's melodramatic, it's Almodóvar at his best! plus the whole cast is simply amazing! i had a great time!

my one big complain is a big spoiler so beware:

i was kind of hoping Manuela and Rosa would end up together and i'm a bit dissappointed that Rose just died instead. this little bit more camp wouldn't have hurt the movie!!

Watched on Tuesday May 27, 2025.

i love you, maya deren.

Watched on Monday May 26, 2025.

Watched on Monday May 26, 2025.

my man Pier had quite the range! this was a lot funnier and goofier than i expected, and also a lot hornier. except for that one tale that was kind of dark.... what else can i say but that i love it. Pasolini rules!

ps: Pasolini's movies have some of the most fun and coolest costumes ever!

pps: i could say a lot more actually but my body granted me only enough energy to watch this masterpiece and not enough to write anything worthwhile.

ppps: Pier Paolo Pasolini Slays!

feels like moving through a thermometre stuck in boiling hot water, up and down and up and down and up and down and

no wonder she got sick when her duvet was nothing but a useless doily!!

snazzy art deco sets and chic costumes, a doomed love story, and 2 leads so pretty that they outshine the shiny sets - what more could you ask for? i came for nazimova and i haven't been disappointed. the woman had an amazing screen presence and i love her silent era style overacting, those eyes!! i had a great time!

the colors, the lights, the music, the melancholy and the pain, shu qi. i was a bit afraid it couldn't live up to the praises i heard over the years but it did! oh it did!!
a masterpiece.

creepy and fucked up, fantastic work!

a gorgeous looking movie, top notch production design, cool protagonist who should have gotten more screen time, and beautiful landscape shots.
unfortunately i didn't like it as much as i thought i would. the sum of all the good to great parts just didn't work for me.

ps: i have a crush on Shu Qi now. about time i watch millenium mambo...

edit: i forgot to click the like button smh.

fantastic documentary about an amazing woman and a petty and cruel state, gonna watch Kanehsatake about the stand off itself asap.
fuck canada.

cool and unique post-apocalyptic movie, love it.

top notch craftmanship all around, before and behind the camera. it's a fantastic film [insert scorsese absolute cinema meme here], brilliant.
but
but lily gladstone's should have been given much more screentime, and i don't say this just because i have fallen a little bit in love with her.
and there should have been given much more screentime to the osage people. and i know, i know that's not the story marty set out to tell, i know. but still. still.

and still, i can't say i didn't have a blast, even when i got so mad at times i almost punched my wall.

beautiful

Watched on Monday May 19, 2025.

super weird experimental animation with a funky tune? hell yeah!

ps: do not destroy the dachshund!

Watched on Sunday May 18, 2025.

delightful documentary, love it!

two artist friends hanging out in one's studio.
a delightful little documentary, i wish i could have spent more time with agnes exploring chris's studio and digital world in second life.

Watched on Saturday May 17, 2025.

Watched on Saturday May 17, 2025.

Watched on Saturday May 17, 2025.

Watched on Friday May 16, 2025.

slow and long takes, beautifully shot, a heady mixture of realism and dream; this movie hands you nothing on a silver platter but gives you so much in exchange for being an attentive enger along the way. love it!

the plan was to watch only the first half today & the rest tomorrow because i'm very sleepy but it was impossible to stop watching.
what a movie! everything is perfect, the performances, the stories, the effects, production design, that freaking cinematography and camera work!!!
is it propaganda? yeah, but i'm a grown up and able to enjoy a well made piece of propaganda every now and then. especially when it's kind of right 🚬

ps: who the hell chose this poster? this might be the worst poster choice i've seen on Letterboxd yet. did an exile cuban in miami chose it?

it's like the nightmare version of the puerto rican parade episode of seinfeld

probably not the best choice for my first Leos Carax but i dig it? it rules? and i am very intrigued and want to see more by this weirdo.

if it wasn't for babyfaced Tadanobu Asano you could have convinced me that this was shot in the decade it's set.

the atmosphere is superb, the tension is so thick it's almost suffocating, the performances by the 2 leads are fantastic, the cinematography beautiful, the suspense, the moths - a masterpiece.

so very disturbing and still more deeply sad. fantastic.

a commuist movie co-written by bertolt brecht that got purged by the nazis and hardly survived? sign me the fuck up!

it's very energetic, the documentary style montages between scenes are great as is the montage of the people looking for work at the beginnig, the characters are very compelling (i loved Hertha Thiele in Mädchen in Uniform and she's very good here too), the last scene is a bit too long in my opinion, but overall this is a very good piece of agitprop and a good time.

still, it's hard to ignore the looming spectre of the nazis fully taking over any minute hanging over it when you watch the movie today. one of the opening shots shows a newspaper with a big swastika. they're already there and that gives the movie an extra layer of tension and doom.

but again: it's a great movie imho and contemporary testimony of a last glimmer of hope for something better.

blunt and unsparing animation about the dangers of ignorance and short term resolutions. i like it!

trippy soviet animation that tackles a wide range of stuff like embarrassingly obvious product placements, sexless horniness, useless office sitters, and colonisation. does it do it well? idk but it's weird as fuck and i like the consequences the cosmonauts face for their mindless killing spree.

wonderful short

Watched on Saturday May 10, 2025.

this rules so hard! the only moments i didn't have the biggest smile plastered on my face while watching were the ones that made me laugh out loud. a pure delight!

sometimes the youtube algorithm is good because it shows me gems like this one!

cool and interesting visuals, i like it

Watched on Thursday May 8, 2025.

this is so awesome and the music is such an earworm, love it!

simple but expressive animations, slapstick that feels more and more violent....
this feels like a visualisation of adhd hyperfixation and how violent these obsessions can become, especially when they're uninvited like the titular A.

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