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Favorite films

  • Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
  • Cameraperson
  • Y Tu Mamá También
  • Blue

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  • Alligator 2: The Mutation

    ★★★

  • Hoop Dreams

    ★★★★★

  • Alligator

    ★★★★½

  • Destination Moon

    ★★★

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  • Modern Times

    Modern Times

    ★★★★½

    Chaplin: His Life and Art: 76/?

    The Criterion Collection presents
    MODERN TIMES
    Spine #543

    Sing!! Never mind the words.

    The bulk of 2021 hasn't exactly been overwhelming in its kindness. When I first started my journey into the life and art of Charlie Chaplin, I certainly didn't expect that I'd still be going about it some 18 months later—nearly as long, in fact, as the sabbatical Charlie took after the release of City Lights. He traveled the world in those…

  • Submarine

    Submarine

    ★★★★★

    Letterboxd Season Challenge 2018-19
    Week 1: Coming of Age in the 2010s

    None of this will matter when I’m 38.

    An essential coming-of-age film. An essential British film. Low-budget and unpolished, but still beautiful and even more charming because of it.

    I have already turned these moments into the Super-8 footage of memory. 

    I’m having a hard time finding the words for this movie. It feels very personal to me; I’ve lived parts of it, in a way. Oliver feels…

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  • Alligator 2: The Mutation

    Alligator 2: The Mutation

    ★★★

    I’ve got six sticks of dynamite. If that don’t do it, we’re gonna start calling that thing “sir”.

    Cannot stress enough that this was not a good movie, but it’s weird how not-bad Alligator 2: The Mutation actually is. Doesn’t quite have the charm or excitement of the first, but it’s a pretty competently made straight-to-video horror sequel!

  • Hoop Dreams

    Hoop Dreams

    ★★★★★

    TCM’s 31 Days of Oscar 2023
    Nominee: Best Editing

    With an introduction by Lonnie Burch, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institute

    One of those perfect films where everything you’ve heard is true: this is an incredible achievement, and an unforgivable Academy snub. It moves along so gracefully, tells its story honestly and without the bombardment of sentiment, which stories like this can often get bogged down in. It’s just a really great subject, executed really well.

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  • Tenet

    Tenet

    ★½

    Don't try to understand it.

    Nolan gives you the key to enjoying it early: just accept that he's gone much, much deeper than anyone wanted him to.

    The set pieces are impressive, but when the Master Filmmaker of Our Time essentially rolls out a Fast & Furious with a time-travel aura, you know we're in trouble. The problem may be, in fact, that we've given this man far too much credit; any legitimate writer who sees both Dom Cobb and The…

  • Marcel the Shell with Shoes On

    Marcel the Shell with Shoes On

    ★★★★★

    Guess why I’m smiling? ‘Cause it’s worth it.

    Huge year for googly eyes!

    Takes nicecore to a level so far and above what feels natural in the world that it's actually destabilizing. Marcel's cup runneth over with hope and optimism, and walking into the movie after a rough day/week/month/year, I wasn't sure I'd be able to handle it, but the movie is a great big hug and a great big push forward into the inescapable difficulty of ~everything~ and it's damn near impossible to not fall under its spell.

    Was also helped by the Tiffany Pollard meme, but make it Isabella Rossellini?!