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Tiktokification directly sautéing the brain, prophecies of body cam politics, paranoia, industrial music, Los Angeles in Hegelian end days, great script, camerawork, amazing soundtrack and interesting themes on the ephemera of memories. I do love a film that emphasizes how we have car fires on every block here in Los Angeles.

Little metaphor for pre-war rise in fascism which says that the only way to deal with a fascist is to kill the fascist. I could look at ida lupino forever

Clowns murdering gen z because of woke

Realized my own private Idaho was an adaptation of this Shakespeare play about 20min in, Orson Welles entirely in his element and you can tell the heart and soul he put into this, a very epic battle scene midway through with surprising brutality sandwiched between comedy and then a tragic end par for the course, stunning set designs and a lot of fat jokes

Paranoia-soaked western chase movie where killing was ostensibly just something you had to do whether you wanted to or not, the prisoner’s dilemma but everyone in the equation has guns, I enjoyed this

Jesus fucking Christ the last 10min, I am shattered and just sitting in silence disassociating

Started off interesting with the themes of grieving and disembodiment what it is to have a dead body etc etc but lost me at the sister in law being horny for being a facsimile of the dead wife and fell off hard from there, nonsensical conspiracy and writing, love you David but this was a miss for me

Somewhat existential noir about fate with a mentalist given the powers of precognition who is really bad at preventing the tragedies he is bombarded with from happening

Buddy cop parasite alien movie hodgepodge of cliches, super violence and a baby faced Kyle maclachlan with cool cars and a really sick soundtrack, very fun

Medieval Czech art house film with an agamben homo sacer werewolves among men type analysis of human suffering. So basically very much my shit.

There were some shots where I was simply like how the hell did they do this, barbaric and brutal but with a surprisingly optimistic ending, absolutely insane cinematography, a score that bounced between choir and ambient, a beast of a film that was a little hard to follow at times but a masterpiece

Fanatical dogma that avalanches over the human condition of fear, lust and regret. An innocent old woman is burned at the stake and a curse is placed on a family who then begins to burn themselves one by one by guilt, deceit and betrayal.

Extremely powerful performances, apocalyptic cinematography, eyes that burn with the sharpness of daggers, the final shot as the line “I see through my tears, but no one comes to wipe them away…” was being delivered was one of the most impactful endings I have ever seen

The most deranged romantic comedy I’ve ever seen that takes a hard turn and descends into complete madness

Elliot Gould as a nihilistic photographer against unformidable systems in a city plunging into the madness of senseless gun violence, ravings of the god fearing, riots at a church, a cynical and god defiant pastor with a fixation on masturbation, existentialism of gangstalking, Freudian psychosexuality, the descent into fascism and milk, spitfire dialogue, a wacky looney tunes film that tries to encapsulate the entire psychology of the 60s and the decline of America into the nihilistic hellscape that is required to survive in it

Prob my new fav Cronenberg

You gotta hand it to him, he did have a really well decorated house

I’m sorry but I was rooting for big tobacco, anyway liked this more than I thought I would

“Money or morals - which will it be?”

One part spaghetti western, one part French new wave, one part American neo-noir, an unstoppable hit man, really wild cinematography, really sick film

I’m starting to think that Ken Russell is up there with Cassavetes as top filmmaking wife guys, except Russell is completely schizophrenic, what starts as a campy old LA, night in the life of a prostitute rapid fire of snappy one-liners turns eventually into surprisingly heartfelt dialogues on vulnerability,  the human desire to connect and sex and love

Anthony Perkins returning to form as a rabid and homocidal preacher wielding a bladed vibrator, neon lights and cheap plastic masking a poignant fear of being known that feels relevant to this day and a batshit soundtrack/score by rick Wakeman, I enjoyed this one a lot

Sometimes living in LA is like that

“You are Buddha.”

The Tibetan book of the dead, seeds of the final solution overlayed on the garden of earthly delights, once a man but now the ascending god of death, the furnace as an act of mercy for those that will inevitably suffer by the coming storm - to continue their journey through samāra, brilliant film on the death cult that was the third reich

Ship destined for hell crewed by the souls of the damned archetype, the Milton inspired nietzschean captain being the living embodiment of “better to reign in hell” quote who takes aboard a upper class writer he fancies as his future biographer, kind of reminded me a little bit of the anime black lagoon, it was decent but yeah idk just didn’t hit as hard for me as it did for the other reviews I’m seeing for this

Maybe I was expecting more cruelty? Fleshing out the boundaries of what pushes civilized man to brutality and animal lawlessness? These things were brushed on but I wanted to see more of that instead of the forced love angle

Kurosawa’s retelling of Macbeth, soaked in brooding atmosphere, the folly of man’s ambition, unknowing the self which sets one on a path to ruin, waxing crescent moons, skulls, prophecies and omens, a perfect first watch of 2025

Darker, colder and more subtle with the metaphysical meat that was more heavy handed in the first JP film but still holds a special place in my heart. Pete Postlethwaite’s  performance of a big game hunter born in the wrong era and experiencing the ennui of post modern existence stands out for me the most, it sucks they cut some key scenes of his as I would’ve liked to see more of him

You just don’t get summer blockbusters with the characters all having philosophical debates about capitalism and ethics over Chilean sea bass anymore

95% dudes with ptsd torturing women psychologically, Jane Fonda is really hot though

Kind of a challenging one for me tbh, it’s a slow burn for sure, didn’t really know where it was going at first, a paranormal haunting or regressive lives cursing this guy’s wife and the detective charged with looking after her falling in love and going through a mental breakdown, I was about ready to write this film off as a disappointment until the 3rd and 4th acts which really kick off for me, not my fave Hitchcock but even a Hitchcock I don’t love is still really good, some really incredible cinematography. Not sure what hitchcock’s deal with blonde women are though, clearly something he’s unpacking through all of his films

Charming and heartbreaking, masterful storytelling and performances across the board that had a hold on me its entire run, the most beautiful film I’ve seen yet of the femcel/faildaughter experience

Taxi driver if he had a huge ass

Gangsters getting Aristotelian about shooting someone in the brain

You really get a feel for how shitty and bleak WWI was in this installment, it really must’ve felt like the end of the world

A fever dream bordering on a nightmare but somehow stops just short. Cults, mind control, a serial killer, Aokigahara forest, Nietzsche and a killer soundtrack I can’t find jack shit about

So help me god I will make everyone pay for what they did to Marilyn Monroe

“But I’m going to die anyhow. So are you. So are we all.”

So turns out there’s a dog distribution system too but it fucks up your life, some stuff here about an aging ace in a new generation of incompetence, redemption and marrying someone for the hell of it which I appreciate. Pacing is a little off but making your last stand on mt Whitney is pretty based, would’ve liked more of the Sierra Nevada but ida lupino is so beautiful it makes me want to kill myself

Singularly the best film about gay guys on a mountain

“Don’t mean a fucking thing, does it?”

The crow (1994) if it had samurai. A young woman and her mother in law are murdered by a marauding band of samurai and are brought back as ghosts by an animal familiar (a cat) to exact revenge on all samurai. The unwitting husband/son returns from war and is set on a mission to destroy the ghosts that keep killing samurai. Beautiful, tender and sorrowful, just perfect.

Part documentary on witchcraft in the Middle Ages, part dramatization of a witch hunt during the inquisition, part surrealist demonic fever dream. Beautiful cinematography, sets, costumes and expressive closeup shots. Loved this.

The shots of the California coast were very nice

The many manifestations of being a dude is played out here very well, everyone is your enemy, asking for a cigarette is a power play

Probably the most emotional cronenberg I’ve seen about when you’re winning an argument in your head in the shower and some little freaks beat you to death

No Country for Old Men if Anton Chigurh was Ned Flanders and sheriff Ed Tom Bell was literally Boris Karloff. Karloff observing how ugly and nihilistic society is becoming at a turning point in American life, he’s the monster of old, vaudevillian and theatrical, being confronted by the horror of modern life which is maybe getting sniped at random while driving on the 405 freeway

Would’ve been a perfect 5 stars but the ending was a little silly, ending credits shot though was incredible, a slow dark cloud moving over the now empty drive-in movie at daytime where a bunch of people died without warning or explanation except for a single car left behind, the ambient noise of the city still going outside, life goes on quietly accepting what is coming

Predecessor to the Exorcist and Possession where the most beautiful woman you have ever seen in your life is constantly prosecuted, assaulted and tortured by her village, beautifully shot, very tragic and very ahead of its time

Sir Henry wotton was dropping hot takes like spitfire

Pretty bleak and melancholic for a 40s film, I enjoy a good film about corruption of the soul

One of the most beautifully shot films I have ever seen, hauntingly atmospheric, crushingly ominous, a masterpiece on lust, rage, grief and asks the question of how many demonic encounters does it take to keep a girl from her situationship

I love when movies have 10-15 minutes at the end for the characters to discuss death and the human condition of suffering

Silly and I wasn’t going to be swayed by them pushing Suicide in the soundtrack so hard

A coked out prophet emerges to wage nuclear jihad, I liked part two way more than part one

They simply do not write dialogue like this anymore

I can appreciate what they’re trying to do here but Timithee charlamagne is simply not a good actor

Living only for yourself as a beast may seem like fun and games, but the gulf you then find between yourself and the humanity you have lost becomes something you do not even see anymore in its vastness, you just ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Cool little Nico cameo also

Anton chigurh if he was a real yearner

Case studies of the Southern gothic, Middle America nihilism and the dark side of the American dream. Those who create their meaning of America will have meaning in all of its hollow bloody brutality.

• Badlands
• No Country for Old Men
• The Night of the Hunter
• Days of Heaven
• Thunder Road
• There Will Be Blood
• Blue Velvet
• Blood Simple
• The Whole Shootin' Match
• My Own Private Idaho

...plus 6 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• One Woman
• Two Women
• 3 Women
• Four Women
• 5 Women
• Six Women
• All These Women
• Ah, Ah, Ah
• Seven Women
• 8 Women

...plus 4 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Films that are spiritually, atmospherically, aesthetically or tangentially black metal

• Hour of the Wolf
• Kaldalon
• The Ritual
• The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
• The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
• The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
• The Witch
• Begotten
• Lords of Chaos
• The Blood on Satan's Claw

...plus 4 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.