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Haneke’s technically magnificent and emotionally abrasive masterpiece is a coolly controlled, parasitic love story between mother and daughter. Huppert’s performance grips like a tightly coiled vice. No one else could have played Erika.
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Watched on Saturday June 7, 2025.
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Watched on Thursday May 29, 2025.
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A staggeringly limp, tedious slog. Just rewatch the De Palma one instead.
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Watched on Sunday May 18, 2025.
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Watched on Friday May 16, 2025.
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Watched on Friday May 16, 2025.
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Watched on Saturday May 10, 2025.
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Flutes rock!
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Watched on Sunday May 4, 2025.
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An oblique, penetrating, and relentlessly bleak exercise in arthouse dread. I'm not entirely sure all of its artistic choices landed, but there's something here that is unclassifiable and hard to shake off.
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The moment when Durga and Apu see a train for the first time is one of the most extraordinarily beautiful sequences in the history of cinema. Breathtaking. I must seek out the rest of this trilogy.
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Watched on Saturday April 26, 2025.
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Watched on Saturday April 26, 2025.
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I haven't seen this in 15 years — still an electrifying, firecracker of a film. An assault of style and anger.
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A tense, sweltering and audacious genre hybrid—part period drama, part jukebox musical of Black music, part vampire film— with great performances and a mind-bending and daring central sequence that seems to span and stretch across time. Coogler’s best film to date.
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Watched on Saturday March 29, 2025.
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Watched on Saturday March 29, 2025.
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Watched on Saturday March 29, 2025.
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Watched on Saturday March 29, 2025.
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Watched on Saturday March 29, 2025.
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Watched on Saturday March 29, 2025.
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Watched on Saturday March 29, 2025.
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Watched on Saturday March 29, 2025.
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Watched on Saturday March 29, 2025.
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Watched on Sunday March 30, 2025.
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Watched on Sunday March 23, 2025.
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Watched on Sunday March 30, 2025.
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Watched on Sunday March 23, 2025.
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Watched on Sunday March 23, 2025.
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Watched on Sunday March 23, 2025.
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While Marco Berger's films often explore the liminal places of male desire, The Astronaut Lovers spin on the (faux)romantic comedy feels like a distinct shift. Moving away from the cold, harsh edges of Horseplay, this film embraces a warmer, looser, and softer atmosphere. The dialogue, though frequently crude and rambling, is also teasingly suggestive, charming and sexy, and the electric chemistry between the two leads is undeniable. Wonderful.
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I loved this—it shows a real progression from Tinta Bruta. A queer, blisteringly sexy, and beautifully kinky take on the erotic thriller, it draws inspiration from the lurid thrills and impressionist framing of De Palma, Hitchcock, Yann Gonzalez, Almodóvar, and Paul Verhoeven. I need more arty, trashy gay erotic thrillers in my life.
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Watched on Thursday March 27, 2025.
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Watched on Thursday March 27, 2025.
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Heartfelt performances and gritty, shimmering vérité camerawork—especially a couple of mesmeric long takes— elevates this tale of Manila street hustlers. Its gradual, languid descent into a surrealistic dreamscape is gorgeously realised.
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A scrappy, anarchic, and glistering lesbian pop melodrama—A Star Is Born via Glitter, but directed by John Waters, with homages to Carrie and songs about fisting. Feverish, chaotic fun.
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Watched on Monday March 24, 2025.
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Watched on Saturday March 22, 2025.
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Watched on Sunday March 23, 2025.
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Watched on Sunday March 23, 2025.
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Watched on Saturday March 22, 2025.
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Watched on Saturday March 22, 2025.
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An extremely moving, powerful and timely addendum to Paris Is Burning which misses a significant opportunity to interrogate Venus' mistreatment by her family while she was still alive. The few scenes that hint at this are quickly glossed over. There's pieces of the story missing here.
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Watched on Friday March 21, 2025.
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Watched on Thursday March 20, 2025.
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A day in the life of an Argentinian twink with Grindr .
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It's not perfect, but this was an irresistibly charming remix of Ang Lee's original. Youn Yuh-jung comfortably steals every scene.
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Watched on Saturday March 15, 2025.
]]>- Queer
- No Other Land
- Girls Will Be Girls
- Seeking Mavis Beacon
- Anora
- Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
- Crossing
- Three Kilometres to the End of the World
- Love Lies Bleeding
- Flow
...plus 2 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>- Aftersun
- Pacifiction
- Elvis
- Crimes of the Future
- Sirens
- Petrov's Flu
- Official Competition
- Corsage
- Funny Pages
- Nope
...plus 2 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>- Neon Bull
- The Rider
- The Beach Bum
- Leave No Trace
- Ash Is Purest White
- El Angel
- Mandy
- Girl
- Sorry Angel
- Transit
...plus 73 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>- Female Trouble
- World on a Wire
- Opera
- Mysterious Skin
- Harold and Maude
- Long Day's Journey into Night
- Holy Motors
- Walkabout
- Point Blank
- Body Double
...plus 30 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>- Holy Motors
- Western
- Phoenix
- Mommy
- The Florida Project
- Toni Erdmann
- Beyond the Hills
- The Duke of Burgundy
- Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
- Burning
...plus 45 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>- Happy as Lazzaro
- Diamantino
- If Beale Street Could Talk
- High Life
- Eighth Grade
- Minding the Gap
- The Perfection
- Madeline's Madeline
- Piercing
- Burning
...plus 10 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>- I Vitelloni
- Brazil
- Eraserhead
- Point Blank
- Aguirre, the Wrath of God
- The Apartment
- The Master
- The Third Man
- Miller's Crossing
- After Hours
...plus 65 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>- Princess Cyd
- The Shape of Water
- Phantom Thread
- Annihilation
- Wild Wild Country
- Dirty Computer
- Hard Paint
- A Fantastic Woman
- Hereditary
- The Miseducation of Cameron Post
...plus 21 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>- Blue Velvet
- Evil Dead II
- The Vanishing
- Crimes and Misdemeanors
- Miller's Crossing
- Jungle Fever
- Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
- Groundhog Day
- Three Colours: White
- The Doom Generation
...plus 23 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>- Embrace of the Serpent
- 13th
- Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
- The Neon Demon
- My Life as a Zucchini
- Divines
- Tale of Tales
- The Handmaiden
- Arrival
- Julieta
...plus 15 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>- Raw
- The Lost City of Z
- Toni Erdmann
- Tower
- Personal Shopper
- Moonlight
- Casting JonBenet
- A Ghost Story
- Logan
- Okja
...plus 19 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>- Frankenstein
- Cat People
- Inland Empire
- Martyrs
- Nosferatu the Vampyre
- Suspiria
- Dawn of the Dead
- The Innocents
- The House of the Devil
- The Brood
...plus 12 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>A list of films that I own that I am intending to watch soon. So many films to see and so little time!
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