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1996

★★★★★ Watched 20 May 2025

Awesome Canadian punk movie. Love to see Western Canada's cities on screen like this. Landmarks like the Save On Meats pig... Smiling Buddha... Herbie's diner in fucking Cache Creek. I feel like punk is sometimes hard to do in movies but these guys are perfect. They're cool but not as cool as they think they are, and know it. They look and sound like the middle aged punks who will be playing hole in the wall hardcore shows all around…

1975

★★★★★ Rewatched 20 May 2025

A supernatural mystery played extremely close to the chest, and a period interrogation of gender roles and social class. Really really beautiful when it wants to be. So many shots partly obscured by out of focus leaves or grass, whole thing with this shimmering quality, and I do love me a good volcanic rock. Really the extreme of the Val Lewton principle of making something out of nothing in horror. This movie takes a rock and imbues it a sense…

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1993

★★★★★ Watched 01 Jul 2021

Who better than Akerman to capture the feeling of an empty room at move-in? A monologue with echoes of Akerman's earliest structural influences (like Wavelength, one room, one zoom, 40 minutes) and a return to the exile and existentialism of Je Tu Il Elle, 20 years on. Not the fallout of some youthful romance but the long formed regrets of middle age. Sami Frey's story is narratively simple but incidentally complex - rambling, circular, and incomplete, as memory and narrative identity tend to be.…

2024

★★★★★ Watched 06 May 2025

As good as anything he's done in the last two decades. Explicitly personal. A long shaggy dog neo noir through grief, paranoia, and all the old obsessions with the body. Seems to find a new plot thread every fifteen minutes, but less in a bad writing way than a multitasking on the verge of heart attack way. Really enjoyed Vincent Cassel's lead, Diane Kruger's neurotic sister in law, Guy Pearce as a squirmy weirdo. The bone breaking was truly awful. Saw it coming and still jumped out of my seat. Love to see a Tim Horton's cup on the big screen.

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