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Favorite films

  • Decision to Leave
  • Eyes Wide Shut
  • Mulholland Drive
  • Heat

All
  • 20th Century Women

    ★★★½

  • Day for Night

    ★★★★½

  • Tristana

    ★★½

  • After Hours

    ★★★★

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Day for Night

1973

★★★★½ Liked Watched

[Keanu Reeves voice] I love movies. 

A heartfelt tribute to film making, Day for Night is captivating from start to finish. Chaotic, messy, filled with so many emotions, Truffaut manages to do what Godard couldn’t: he gave each character a purpose, a love for the cinema, and the painful, surreal experience and feeling of wanting to put an art into the world and wanting it to be perfect. Every character, in their own way, tries to continue ing and making movies and that is what catches the audience I think. It’s marvelous.

Tristana

1970

★★½ Watched

At its core, Tristana is boring. On one hand, it’s supposed to be a criticism of the rich, which to some extent, it achieves its purpose. But on other hand, it archives it while being bland, monotonous and dry; the love story isn’t felt, Don’s character is almost comedic, and while Catherine Deneuve tells the story with her eyes and expressions, the dub fails her. What remains in your hands is a big, big mess.

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Gladiator II

2024

★★ Watched

Is this a sequel or a remake of Gladiator (2000)? Many times while watching Gladiator II I asked myself this, but even from the first minute I knew the answer. Gladiator II’s plot isn’t different from the first movie at all. It’s the same plot, with nods to the original movie. Not a sequel, but a remake. Gladiator II is nothing but a remake of Gladiator (2000), because, it is a desperate money grab move from Mr. Scott, a move…

Anora

2024

★★ Watched

I don’t hate Anora but I also can’t find any reason why I would like it. It stands in the middle of everything, doesn’t have a purpose, it’s more like a torture porn than anything else. Why is this happening? What was the point? I doubt Sean Baker himself has answers to these. 

One thing Sean Baker has always succeeded in is pulling his characters back to reality harshly, and I heavily doubt this is because he understands class differences (which…