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Favorite films

  • The Devils
  • Once Upon a Time in China
  • Hiroshima Mon Amour
  • Batman Returns

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  • Paris, Texas

    ★★★★★

  • 200

  • Life Is Flashing Before Your Eyes

  • Face Like a Frog

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Notorious

1946

★★★★½ Liked Watched

This is a very strange love affair

Duplicitousness, secrets and backstabbing all wrapped up in a strange thing known as love. The B&W cinematography by Tetzlaff just elevates this movie to high art. Hitchcock was a bloody genius.

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Paris, Texas

1984

★★★★★ Liked Watched

I can’t recall a previous time where a movie made me feel homesick before, specifically for a place I’ve never even been to. Paris, Texas is a movie meant to exist stuck in a dream-time amber, where the only thing left untrapped are the connections we ourselves have made.

Face Like a Frog

1988

Liked Watched

Kooky indie cartoon made on a shoestring budget. I liked it a lot.

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Reagan

2024

3

List of highlights from REAGAN

- Robert Davi as Leonid Brezhnev, C. Thomas Howell as Caspar Weinberger, Mena Suvari as Jane Wyman, Scott Stapp as Frank Sinatra, Elya Baskin as a Soviet defector, Kevin Sorbo as Reverend Cleaver, and Kevin Dillon as Jack Warner
- Heavily implies that J. Robert Oppenheimer was a Communist spy and Jimmy Carter as a Soviet dupe
- Mentions Reagan’s disinterest in resolving the AIDS epidemic as a good thing (?) 
- Jon Voight does…

Megalopolis

2024

Liked 1

Ayn Rand meets Richard Wagner, with a varnish manufactured by Caravaggio. 

A movie that transcends any categorization of “good” or “bad”, which almost seem like words too puny to describe such a Gesamtkuntswerk. Tonight I witnessed in IMAX the last few firing synapses of a genius rattled by dementia, thoughts and words and precepts barely elucidated by the medium of the moving picture. Performances ranging from baffling to laughingly austere. Cinematography ranging from neo-Baroque to amateurish. Editing both coherent and…