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One of the greatest plays of the 21st century - nay, of all time - captured beautifully on film?? With a phenomenal cast?? Yes please!
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I think Sean San Jose's performance may be in my top 5 for the year. He should be nominated for everything.
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A masterpiece. Lives in the heart of what film is capable of.
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Watched on Saturday February 15, 2025.
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I really wish it had just stayed in screwball territory for the whole movie, I think it would have been ultimately more powerful than the forced and cliched dramatic turn it takes towards the end, but there's so much about this movie I like and every performance is gold, especially hers of course.
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It's hard having a roommate!
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Frankly, I disagree with Statler and Waldorf, I think this movie is incredible.
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I really liked this, but I still don't really understand what a Pope does.
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I kind of want to see the space movie she's in.
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Fernanda Torres' performance deserves all the flowers. A powerhouse. I saw this and then read Ionesco's "The Rhinoceros," and not gonna lie, things are feeling pretty fascist right now????
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This is a very confusing film.
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Watched on Thursday January 23, 2025.
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I think the best plays wrestle with an unsolvable problem, one for which there is no solution. This film seems to ask the question, "How do you help someone in deep pain, and how do you love someone who will not be helped?" It does not try to solve the problem, but it depicts it with such blistering honesty and human comion, that my heart opened and never closed throughout watching it, and each time I've thought about it since. The best performances of the year, all around. What a stunning, stunning film.
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Maybe the best horror movie about alcoholism I've ever seen. The kangaroo hunting scenes are brutal. Donald Pleasence's performance is beyond captivating. A very good movie.
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Some incredible and weird animals.
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The racist middle part is practically unwatchable, as are many of the other racist/sexist parts in the beginning, and the racist/sexist parts near the end, but in between those, there are one or two pretty funny sketches.
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A great opportunity for 60-year-old guys to lean over to the person next to them and say "I bet that's Al Kooper."
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Other than the continuing offensive trans jokes from the first Paddington, and the very British notion that if we're just polite to people, prisons will be reformed and turned into fun places with song and dance, it's a delightful movie.
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I'm convinced William Friedkin made them all do this for real and then filmed it.
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Queen of the whisper finds her voice.
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Watched it dubbed in German, and? It still slaps!
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Watched with a German kid who speaks very little English and I think she enjoyed it because slapstick is the universal language. I love Christmas movies because they're often written by Jews who feel left out and they're about finding faith in community, art, and anti-capitalist politics in a cynical world. What a funny movie!
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I think it may have to be watched in a theater full of gay people who know every line, but my gosh it's one of the greatest farces around! What a delight!
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ed every word of every song, but forgot that Dr. Dillamond teaches his class that in times of economic hardship, people will turn to autocratic leaders who scapegoat a marginalized group and ostracize them from society. Oh my Oz!
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I want to live in LA where rent is $600 and an enormous old-timey burlesque club is fighting to stay alive on the Sunset strip, where the bartenders all wear bowler hats and the dancers all saw one scene from a Fosse movie once.
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It's my favorite movie ever and it's all about banking.
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Hunk, Hickory, and Zeke, three normal names for three normal guys who hang out on the farm.
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A masterpiece. Eco-therapy in a film. The most human, sensual, daring, surprising, heartfelt, painful, honest movie of the year.
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Top 5 mother and son relationships. Also top 5 silly clumsy waiter who belongs in a farce performance from Valerie Curtin. Ellen Burstyn's performance is perfect start to finish. I also want to live on a farm with Kris Kristofferson.
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Watched on Monday November 25, 2024.
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Watched on Thursday November 21, 2024.
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A very real and relatable depiction of 3rd generation trauma and how hard it is to function in the wake.
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I love the scene about what if really fast and strong people played baseball
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Finally finished this on a plane, still didn't like it very much.
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Watched on Monday November 4, 2024.
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Watched on Wednesday November 6, 2024.
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Watched on Sunday November 5, 2023.
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Watched on Sunday November 3, 2024.
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The real magic is how many genres are in this one movie.
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Watched on Thursday October 24, 2024.
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That is the most concerned little boy I've ever seen.
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Watched on Saturday October 5, 2024.
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Weird and wild and touching and delightful!!! Go see it!
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I like the homage to "Saving Private Ryan" when they keep talking about some guy the whole movie and then it turns out to be Matt Damon.
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I like that she becomes young but also a very good remodeler who can build a door in a wall.
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Aaron is so in love with Jane, and she loves him so much but not like that, and she loves Tom but knows she shouldn't love Tom, and Tom loves Jane but loves himself more. And they're all really mean to each other and also they all really love each other. I've never seen a friendship like Aaron and Jane's depicted so beautifully. I love this movie. For a week I couldn't get Albert Brooks' voice out of my head singing, "I can sing while I read! I am singing and reading! Both!"
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Watched on Friday September 13, 2024.
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Watched on Monday September 9, 2024.
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Watched on Saturday September 7, 2024.
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Watched on Thursday September 5, 2024.
]]>My favorite movies
- The Last Movie Stars
- Finding Nemo
- Aftersun
- Drive My Car
- C'mon C'mon
- I May Destroy You
- Shoplifters
- Cléo from 5 to 7
- Leave No Trace
- The Florida Project
...plus 108 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
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