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Watched on Saturday May 17, 2025.

it's an ok romcom, an ok slasher, i had an ok time

Watched on Sunday April 27, 2025.

Watched on Saturday April 26, 2025.

suffers from being the third in the trilogy - the story needs an ending, and that gets in the way a bit. the characterization we do get is worthwhile, though. fujiko is a mess of contradictions, ultimately underexplored but still integral. and as with the other two, it looks absolutely bangin.

cool as hell movie

"it is what it is. the word of the lord."

i love jigen getting more time in the spotlight. easily my favorite brooding gunslinger. the animation looks so good, and a very fun lupin iii romp. all that said, feels pretty out of pocket to write this plot for fujiko in a spinoff of the woman called fujiko mine!

Watched on Saturday March 29, 2025.

extremely icky squicky, but it doesn't take its subject matter lightly. even at its most absurd, it remains grounded by such wonderful, honest performances. dylan baker is kind of unbelievable in this. and then you have philip seymour hoffman, obviously, and jane adams, ben gazzara...

sure, structure and pacing are a little off, but it's so warm and delightful that it's easy to overlook. karin is written so well. she's a brat, and often thoughtless, but because she's hurting; and anzu is doing his best to be there for her without letting that slide. understands both children and cats very well!

Watched on Friday March 21, 2025.

"izzie! i felt a kinship!"
"you felt an istrative need."

shot very well and thoughtfully alienating, but without much going on beyond that. neither christopher walken nor willem dafoe is that engaging to watch, which is really saying something for those guys.

like every tarkovsky film i've seen, far too dense and ethereal for me to have much coherent to say, but indeniably one of the most beautiful, dreamlike, and powerful films about art i have ever seen.

such a delightful and hilarious pastiche, with so much love for its source material. renee zellweger is very funny here, and ewan mcgregor's smarminess is palpable.

lots of little details in here i loved, and i always appreciate a movie setting its own rules and (mostly) following them. sophie thatcher gives a very convincing performance and jack quaid is perfect as the worst guy you know. lukas gage doing the terminator is also a blast.

"should we stay in algeria? if you answer 'yes,' then you must accept all the consequences."

i love this film's portrayal of that layer of revolution we don't always see in media. the one that consists of secret meetings, revolutionary courts, and debates over what "winning" means.

the first act writes some thematic checks that it doesn't quite cash, but this works for me on almost every way crystal skull fails, certainly not least in its ing cast. i would still rather watch raiders of the lost ark, but that's true of almost any movie, so.

when this came out, i didn't like it because of the aliens. now that i'm older and wiser, i don't like it because it's just not very good.

one of the greatest shakespeare adaptations. if this film has no fans i am dead.

Watched on Friday February 14, 2025.

Watched on Friday February 7, 2025.

Watched on Friday February 7, 2025.

young indiana jones literally had one eventful day and based his entire personality around it for the rest of his life

i have dishonored my marshmallow

captures a lot of the claustrophobia and horror that is missing from the milla jovovich movies (which i love!!) but feels a little hamstrung by trying to adapt two games at once.

Watched on Tuesday January 28, 2025.

in the running for best movie ever

"there are so many things to ponder."

full of surreal mysteries, uneasy fantasy, and nightmarish horror. just as strange and beautiful as you'd expect if "ingmar bergman's only horror film."

Watched on Monday November 9, 2020.

having trouble coming up with words so i'll leave it at what a nightmare, and god bless laura dern

Watched on Tuesday January 14, 2025.

it feels only slightly hyperbolic to say that the last 7 decades of cinema are built on this film. i have never had more fun watching toshiro mifune on screen, and takashi shimura is wonderful as the film's moral center.

i liked it! the main cast is engaging and fun to watch, and the soundtrack is so good. runs into the classic horror-comedy problem of ping-ponging between the two genres without quite nailing either one.

flawed, but only just, and astonishing nonetheless. once again, adrien brody gives one of film's most moving performances. the score, the production design, the photography, are all unapologetically grandiose in a way we rarely experience.

this was my first time watching this since having seen the long goodbye, and inherent vice really is the 21st century's perfect response to that film. impossibly dense with information that, ultimately, is all but meaningless.

the performances and visual language here are really what make this compelling. meg ryan is ruthlessly playing against type, and mark ruffalo feels genuinely dangerous.

i can see why hitchcock called this "the first hitchcock film." cool camera techniques, blondes, mistaken identity, etc. ivor novello is really good!

Watched on Monday January 6, 2025.

"i do love you, so very much. i love you with all my heart and soul."
"i want to die."

Watched on Friday January 3, 2025.

for a tale about alienation and abuse, the aura around this film is so dreamlike and enticing. something kind of magical about how memory and fantasy intertwine. wonderful photography and music.

Watched on Tuesday December 31, 2024.

this movie rocks. even more hallucinatory then the series, and the feature format allows the story to breathe in such a wonderful way. great music too, aina the end's theme song is a banger.

deeply unserious while remaining committed to its themes and ideas. very fun, love seeing hugh grant do his thing.

even more of a rehash than i was expecting, with very little going for it beyond denzel washington simply having a good time. everyone's motivations are poorly defined so nothing feels important. i did say "oh hell yeah" at some of the action scenes, though!

p.s. all hail dondus.

evil dazed & confused.

"do you ever wonder why we exist?"
"no. what for?"

currently: the nice guys

• Mikey and Nicky
• Ocean's Eleven
• The Nice Guys
• Drunken Angel
• Evangelion: 3.0 You Can (Not) Redo
• The Lighthouse
• Bottle Rocket
• Scream
• Challengers
• Shrek

1. Being There

   CC40 boxset

2. The Piano

   birth year

3. 3 Women

   dir. robert altman

4. Seven Samurai

   first choice in the criterion closet

5. Days of Heaven

   great soundtracks

6. Divorce Italian Style

   john turturro's adventures in moviegoing

7. The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog

   1920s

8. King Lear

   added to the collection in 2025

9. Vampyr

   1930s

10. Happiness

    andrew garfield's closet picks

...plus 42 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

favorite films of 100 minutes or less (including credits!)

• After Hours
• As Above, So Below
• The Awful Truth
• Barbarella
• Best in Show
• The Bird with the Crystal Plumage
• Black Christmas
• Black Narcissus
• The Blackcoat's Daughter
• The Blair Witch Project

...plus 114 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

films to watch back to back

• Suspiria

  dancing in the dark

• Climax

  dancing in the dark

• The Ring

  it on-a-thon

• It Follows

  it on-a-thon

• Columbus

  structures

• La Notte

  structures

• Parasite

  invasion via invitation

• Funny Games

  invasion via invitation

• A Woman Is a Woman

  des comédies musicales

• The Young Girls of Rochefort

  des comédies musicales

...plus 50 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

a selection of motion pictures that make me feel warm and fuzzy inside (please do not read into this)

• About Time
• Adventures in Babysitting
• Beginners
• Best in Show
• Big
• Blood and Black Lace
• A Bigger Splash
• Booksmart
• Call Me by Your Name
• Casablanca

...plus 34 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

my favorite movie from every year i have been alive, with exactly one (1) tie.

• Three Colours: Blue
• Three Colours: Red
• Ghost in the Shell
• Scream
• Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion
• Rushmore
• Notting Hill
• In the Mood for Love
• The Royal Tenenbaums
• The Ring

...plus 23 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

view the list on variety here.

• Repulsion
• Suspiria
• The Devil's Backbone
• The Haunting
• Invasion of the Body Snatchers
• Braindead
• Event Horizon
• Cat People
• The Human Centipede 2 (Full Sequence)
• Dead of Night

...plus 90 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

favorite horror movie from every year i've been alive.

• The Good Son
• New Nightmare
• Castle Freak
• Scream
• Cure
• Perfect Blue
• eXistenZ
• Ginger Snaps
• Mulholland Drive
• The Ring

...plus 22 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

explained here

• Boat People

  random number generator (#1113)

• Two Days, One Night

  made in belgium

• Flowers of Shanghai

  made in taiwan

• My Winnipeg

  made in canada

• Ossos

  made in portugal

• Au Hasard Balthazar

  animals in the collection

• 24 Frames

  films to fall asleep to

• Louie Bluie

  black music films

• Do the Right Thing

  black lives collection

• A Short Film About Love

  heartbreak heaven

...plus 42 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

explained here. did my best to avoid movies made in the US this year.

• Three Colours: Blue

  my birth year

• Häxan

  1920s

• M

  1930s

• Bitter Rice

  1940s

• Lola Montès

  1950s

• Pitfall

  1960s

• Lady Snowblood

  1970s

• Taipei Story

  1980s

• Irma Vep

  1990s

• Memories of Murder

  2000s

...plus 42 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Get Out
• The General
• Black Girl
• Tropical Malady
• Once Upon a Time in the West
• A Man Escaped
• The Earrings of Madame de...
• The Leopard
• Ugetsu
• Yi Yi

...plus 90 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• The Princess Diaries
• The Devil Wears Prada

• Paddington
• The Shape of Water

The Criterion Challenge is explained here: boxd.it/aqtYi

• Blood Simple

  from 1984

• Throne of Blood

  dir. akira kurosawa

• 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her

  dir. jean-luc godard

• Diabolique

  horror

• Raging Bull

  released on laserdisc

• Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown

  made in spain

• Pigs and Battleships

  wes anderson's top 10

• Orpheus

  romance

• The Kid

  silent film

• The ion of Joan of Arc

  1920s

...plus 42 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.