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I didn't watch any of Wes' Netflix shorts from last year but if you know me you know I've been outspokenly disappointed in his output since Isle of Dogs. I feel like he took his success from Grand Budapest and beat his trademark style into the ground. I've been dying for something that's more grounded, akin to his earlier days like Rushmore or Tenenbaums instead of him framing things perfectly and making his actors inhabit these stilted sets. Thankfully, I think he finally cooled it with The Phoenician Scheme. Please, more of this!
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YES BECKY I AM SHAKING IN MY BOOTS! You psycho!
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Watched on Tuesday June 3, 2025.
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Cars 2 Fan Club #31 / “Tease” / Selected by me
Kinda endlessly watchable. So many good bits. Tell ‘em Large Marge sent ya.
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Watched on Monday June 2, 2025.
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This is why I love this medium. Even while writhing in my seat from a random, terrible leg cramp (looking like a damned fool to the folks in the row behind me), I remained gripped. Long live cinema. Pain is in the mind.
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Watched on Friday May 30, 2025.
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Robby 👏 Fucking 👏 Müller 👏
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Ethan Hunt faces off against his greatest test yet… my patience!
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Shout out to the fly that kept landing on the projector
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Watched on Friday May 23, 2025.
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Some essays are much stronger than others (Kusama, Lowery, Waters) but I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t really into this. Some thoughtful and insightful examinations on not just Oz’s influence on one artist, but broader strokes of art in the collective conscious, the myth of originality, and making use of cultural context to strengthen new art (shorthand can be powerful).
Made me realize, on some deep level, I’m still mourning Lynch. This film makes a strong case for him being possibly the most influential American arthouse director. I’m sure I’m not the only one who started tearing up inexplicably at certain parts of this.
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Watched on Wednesday May 21, 2025.
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I can’t believe it’s not French
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Watched on Tuesday May 20, 2025.
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Brain rot ass movie
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Solid gold ✅
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I BLAME SOCIETY
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My dumb ass still couldn’t tell them apart
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Watched on Thursday May 15, 2025.
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Knew very early on just how into the concept and approach I would be. Long, meandering shots? Basically no dialogue? Character studies solely based on observation? If you know me you know this is my bag. My knee jerk reaction to these characters was "who are these jokers coming in and out of the theater? What is Tsai trying to say about filmgoers more generally?" I’m not sure I agree with the general sell of this movie being an “ode to moviegoing”. People are more likely to pop in to cruise or get out of the rain and eat some food than engage with the art in front of them. I think this might be a mirror to the kinds of people who refuse to engage with cinema as art, and as a more meta take - people who say this film is too boring. There are pieces that I'm not sure what to make of but are sure to reward on a rewatch and at only 82 minutes I'm sure I'll throw it on again soon enough. Would love to see this in a near empty theater at 9:30pm.
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Goated poster. I’m such a sucker for LA neo-noirs. This is up there with the best of them.
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this movie rocks so fucking hard it's ridiculous
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Watched on Monday May 12, 2025.
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Cars 2 Fan Club #30 / “Tease” / Selected by Bill
Well, you eat a lot of red meat
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Watched on Friday May 9, 2025.
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Watched on Wednesday May 7, 2025.
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You think Tyler Durden has ever gotten barreled?
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Look at him go!
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Cocaine
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At least he failed with soul
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If I had hundreds of millions I’d hire Talking Heads and it would probably go exactly like this.
Somehow got me all sentimental in the end. Some glaring shortcomings but undeniably gets to the heart strings. Also need that whole fit Herb borrowed in the beginning of the movie, pronto.
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Should’ve been up for best sound design for the nose breathing alone
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ALL I NEED ARE SOME TASTY WAVES, A COOL BUZZ, AND I’M FINE
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Watched on Friday April 25, 2025.
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A yell at the tv kinda t
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The last 10 minutes kinda drop the ball for me, but Todd Field is a very intelligent filmmaker and if this doesn’t capture the human condition at its messiest. The shot-reverse-shot of Patrick Wilson and Jennifer Connelly in bed and their eye lines match so they look like they’re looking at one another and then the tilt up to reveal they were facing opposite directions… gonna have to that one. Reminded me of sprawling suburban dramas like The Ice Storm or American Beauty only Little Children is better for a lot of reasons, chief among them is there’s no Kevin Spacey.
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Coogler’s big blank check - some major swings and the allegory might be on the nose at times, but this was really a joy to watch and is loaded with subtext that leaves the audience to chew on. Like, it made me rethink why I like folk music.
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Instant classic, I’ve watched this 3 times already and this time around I realized if it’s not on Letterboxd then it should be… so here I am. Skate videos have gotten so dry in the last few years - carbon copy Strobeck zooms and random super8 b-roll, but this was so original and refreshing. Bobby, where you get your threads?
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Needs more sauce
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Undeniably a hot mess but also endlessly watchable. Altman on full gas with the screwball antics, which most of the time pays off. So many perfectly timed jokes and gags, could've done without the narration. Shelley Duvall had such a presence!
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Weird movie!
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Pálmason is easily one of my favorite contemporary directors and this is a beautiful and simple short film that is so fine tuned to my sensibilities. Amazing. I want 10 more of these.
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Cars 2 Fan Club #29 / “Tease” / Selected by Claire
Morally bankrupt. Did get a few laughs out of me though. Particularly the incredibly bad line delivery of “now THAT’S what I call a book report!” After a batshit scene where our hero (zero) seduces and makes out with his teacher in front of his whole English class. Shoot for the stars. Anything can happen.
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Hadn’t watched this in at least 15 years, forgot how incredibly well plotted this thing is and how effective the T Rex scene is, really incredible filmmaking. Late stage capitalism ain’t great, but at least Jeff Goldblum is hot.
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Bewildered and vibing
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men will literally ________ instead of going to therapy
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Blows the first one out of the water it’s not even close. Every chase scene has more weight behind it because we care about the context. Relationships are more important, lore is totally secondary. Seems like Cameron took some of these ideas from his Aliens playbook, it paid off! That dream sequence with the famous skeleton/fence/atom bomb shot is so metal. Some effects and stunts I truly don’t know how they pulled off. The movie was marketed as T2 and I had two cups of tea while watching it thus it was Tea2.
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Bill Murray actually whispered “one day Kino Lorber will whiff it big time and this movie will never get a 4k restoration”. Why are they happy about this? I’m not happy about this.
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The Bad:
-Jenna Ortega annoying
-Paul Rudd annoying
-Yet another shallow class conscious pandering
-Daytime CGI
-Clunky jokes
-Clunky homages (ET, The Village, Evil Dead, Jurassic Park)
-Dead mom trope to shortcut heartstring pulling
-Vape god
The Good:
-Will Poulter annoying in a good way
-Ketamine horn
-Hard left into a horror movie at midpoint
-Will Poulter being the only one to actually deliver clunky jokes
-“I asked for a mood board, not a shit board”
-NoHo Hank’s face any time he’s working
-Cherry-coloured Funk needle drop
-Googling about unicorns
Like Jake’s list but with less commitment but with a little more commitment than last year - round 2
1/3 - Breillat
2/3 - Coppola
1/3 - Cronenberg
2/3 - Schrader
1/3 - Tarkovsky
1/3 - Hong
2/3 - Wiseman
0/3 - Weerasethakul
3/3✅ - Brown
1/3 - Kiarostami
0/3 - Ozu
2/3 - Altman (take 2)
- Fat Girl
- Last Summer
- Romance
- The Conversation
- Rumble Fish
- The Godfather Part II
- Crash
- Dead Ringers
- eXistenZ
- Cat People
...plus 26 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>Films in my watchlist that are available for free. Links included, HD at least w English subs. Will cut as I work through.
- California Split
archive.org/details/california.-split.-1974.1080p.-webrip.x-264.-aac-yts.-mx
- In the Realm of the Senses
- Goodbye, Dragon Inn
archive.org/details/goodbye.-dragon.-inn.-2003.1080p.-blu-ray.x-265.-hevc.-aac-sartre
- My Night at Maud's
- The Face of Another
archive.org/details/the.-face.of.-another.-1966.720p.-web-dl.-aac-2.0.-h.-264-gabe
- After Life
- The Heartbreak Kid
archive.org/details/the-heartbreak-kid-comedy-1972-charles-grodin-cybill-shepherd-jeannie-berlin
- Elephant
- Mysterious Skin
- Twenty Years Later
...plus 16 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>Flicks I own on physical media. Blu-Ray unless specified.
- The Big Lebowski
- Submarine
- Burning
- The Long Goodbye
Kino
- Columbus
- The Shining
4k
- Point Break
4k Shout
- Old Joy
Cc
- Gummo
Cc
- The Worst Person in the World
Cc
...plus 29 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>- Dead Man
- Down by Law
- Paterson
- Stranger Than Paradise
- Mystery Train
- Night on Earth
- Only Lovers Left Alive
- Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
- The Limits of Control
- Coffee and Cigarettes
...plus 3 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>- The Green Ray
- A Tale of Autumn
- The Aviator's Wife
- A Summer's Tale
- Pauline at the Beach
- La Collectionneuse
- Boyfriends and Girlfriends
- A Tale of Winter
- Claire's Knee
- Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle
...plus 5 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>- Twin Peaks: The Return
- Mulholland Drive
- Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
- Blue Velvet
- The Elephant Man
- Wild at Heart
- Eraserhead
- Lost Highway
- The Straight Story
- Inland Empire
...plus 1 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>- The Shining
- 2001: A Space Odyssey
- Full Metal Jacket
- Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
- Paths of Glory
- Eyes Wide Shut
- A Clockwork Orange
- The Killing
- Lolita
- Barry Lyndon
...plus 2 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
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3/3✅-Altman
3/3✅-Benning
3/3✅-Akerman
3/3✅-Rohmer
3/3✅-von Trier
2/3-Tarr
3/3✅-Linklater
3/3✅-Wenders
- McCabe & Mrs. Miller
- Short Cuts
- Nashville
- Deseret
- Ten Skies
- The United States of America
- Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
- News from Home
- The Meetings of Anna
- Claire's Knee
...plus 14 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>- Before Sunset
- Dazed and Confused
- Before Sunrise
- Before Midnight
- Slacker
- School of Rock
- Boyhood
- Waking Life
- Everybody Wants Some!!
- Tape
...plus 5 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>- Lessons of Darkness
- Land of Silence and Darkness
- Into the Abyss
- Grizzly Man
- Fitzcarraldo
- Encounters at the End of the World
- Cave of Forgotten Dreams
- Into the Inferno
- Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds
- The Fire Within: Requiem for Katia and Maurice Krafft
...plus 3 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>100 films during lockdown (March 20th - May 24th)
Originally ranked, but my silly opinion has changed on a lot of these over time and rewatches
- Mulholland Drive
- The Social Network
- Anatomy of a Murder
- Her
- 12 Angry Men
- A Man Escaped
- Persona
- Magnolia
- Blue Velvet
- Roma
...plus 90 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>- The Social Network
- Zodiac
- Fight Club
- Se7en
- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
- The Killer
- The Game
- Panic Room
- Gone Girl
- Mank
...plus 2 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>- No Country for Old Men
- The Big Lebowski
- Fargo
- Inside Llewyn Davis
- A Serious Man
- The Hudsucker Proxy
- Barton Fink
- True Grit
- Burn After Reading
- O Brother, Where Art Thou?
...plus 5 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
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