sirjameshyland

Favorite films

  • Love & Pop
  • Faust
  • The Human Surge
  • No Other Land

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  • Goodbye to Language

  • Trailer of a Film That Will Never Exist: Phony Wars

  • Notre Musique

  • NYC Weights and Measures

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Goodbye to Language

2014

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Today I went to Chinatown with Jordan and Amandine. Under the ground, behind a silver wall and a frosted black door, stood a silver Golem. The people ing by on the street did not know he was there. The Golem had hollow eyes and a scroll stuffed in his mouth and rode a wooden cart. Amandine read the words on the thin glass pages aloud:

‘Throw something at the Golem and nothing will happen.’

I took a receipt out of…

Trailer of a Film That Will Never Exist: Phony Wars

2023

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Surreal to have just watched my first godard feature - Notre Musique- & then go to watch his final film only for it to be Notre Musique again but dissasembled, Anyway this terrified me.

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The Mitchells vs. the Machines

2021

★★★★ Liked 3

The 21st century is officially knee-deep in its third decade and if the Internet was a person they'd already be a waning millennial, barely able to make out the tip of the iceberg that is today's online culture. Things develop and evolve so quickly that even the straightforward decision to set this movie in the fall of 2020 (a by-product of the multi-year undertaking that is filmémaking) was enough to elicit an audible laugh from me. When everything begins to…

Don't Look Up

2021

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Will Jesus forgive me for watching an Adam McKay movie on Christmas?
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My dad wanted the family to know that  ‘Mark Twain would have loved this’ 
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Timothee chalamet getting excited about fingerling potatoes is where Don’t look up  peaks
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I will not let this movie use Bon Iver against me
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Whoever keeps letting Adam Mckay into the getty images stock footage database needs to be held able
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I am preemptively excusing myself from watching any…