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1949

Liked Watched 22 May 2025

There is a moment in Red Canyon—maybe it’s when the stallion Black Velvet rears up against the burning sky, or when Lucy Bostel turns her face to the wind like she’s inhaling the scent of a forgotten god—when I felt the cracked earth of America tremble beneath its lacquered Hollywood sheen. That’s the thing with these old westerns: you think you’re going in for a bit of nostalgia, a bit of dust and saddle soap and good clean adventure. But…

1958

Liked Watched 07 May 2025

I’ve been draped across this crumbling couch like a wounded Roman senator, my left shoulder pulsing like a separate animal—dumb, swollen, insolent. Pain has a tempo, and mine has chosen to play the tabla. It thuds in slow irregular beats, some deep, some piercing, like the sound of distant drums.

The hours drift like smoke rings. I haven’t moved in what feels like centuries. There is a crust forming on my soul, and underneath it, a thin film of bitter…

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2022

★★★★★ Liked Watched 07 Oct 2022

TAR is a ghost story. Very seldom am I anymore utterly moved by a contemporary film. What a deliberately composed and complicated masterpiece- the dreadful and much crueler cousin to PHANTOM THREAD. The “can we/should we separate the Art from the Artist?” question rears its polarized head once again in the form of an almost giallo-esque lead performance by Cate Blanchett as a brilliant/flawed maestro on a downward spiral destroying everything and everyone in her wake. It’s paralyzing how great…

1994

Liked Rewatched 11 Apr 2021

Had to rewatch CHUNGKING EXPRESS for the second time in a week- this time with audio commentary featuring cinema critic Tony Rayns. Partially for research on its structure for a writing project I’m working on, but mostly for the euphoria the film induces. 

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