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Favorite films

  • Open Doom Crescendo
  • Rock n Roll Asylum
  • The Golden Triangle
  • Night of the Ghouls

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  • Sadistic and Masochistic

    ★★★★

  • Céline and Julie Go Boating

    ★★★★

  • Up, Down, Fragile

    ★★★½

  • Sinners

    ★★★★

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Sadistic and Masochistic

2001

★★★★ Watched

A documentary about roman porno director Masaru Konuma that makes the bold move of making him look like a huge asshole - while still featuring him throughout!

The doc isn't interested in providing Konuma's backstory or a narrative to his career, but it does feature many of the people he worked with talking their truth, and while it often skews positive, it doesn't take much reading between the lines to see how abusive, obsessed and destructive he was. At one…

Up, Down, Fragile

1995

★★★½ Watched

A dry run for Rivettes' VA SAVOIR, but with musical numbers (that are not very good). Pleasent.

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Hundreds of Beavers

2022

★★★★★ Liked 11

The funniest live-action cartoon I've ever seen.

HUNDREDS OF BEAVERS isn't merely a 'homage' to silent cinema and Looney Tunes-style comedy, but an actual example of it, with a new gag every few seconds that left me howling with tears of laughter, thanks to a visual identity somewhere between Terry Gilliam (cut-out animation included), an adventure video game and Japanese genius Hitoshi Matsumoto.

The plot is perfectly straightforward (as it should be): A man wakes up in a frozen forest…

The Holiday

2006

★★★½ Liked 5

ME DURING THE ROMANCE BITS: This is cute. Everyone is so charming. And disgustingly rich.

ME DURING THE PART WHEN A 90 YEAR OLD ELI WALLACH RUNS UP A FLIGHT OF STAIRS TO AN ADORING AUDIENCE: (sobs as tears stream down my face)