took me a long time to settle in with the cadence of this: hard to tell if its second half is stronger than its first or if I was just really in it by then. a nice movie to see with my dad — a rare film about parents who are good for once.
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Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe 1980
Herzog is so handsome in this, wearing this really lovely collared pullover. maybe nothing more attractive than earnestly following through on a terrible bit with humility. he did this on my birthday! many years before my birth, fyi, because I am young :)
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Hellboy 2004
appreciate its yuck factor and Doug Jones - duh, DUH - in tandem with David Hyde Pierce's vocal performance really make Abe feel so special and sweet. overlong, sadly, like everything, with its ending nearly an hour long, and not really sure why we have an everyman character other than to eat up time. Hellboy is basically a regular guy - that's his whole deal!
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The Long Day Closes 1992
pretty special stuff! I have often felt at arms' length from Davies work though it is completely "my type of thing," but this – despite feeling more opaque and mysterious than some of his other films – is so warm and beckoning. someone program this with The Souvenir Part II asap!
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The Northman 2022
I enjoyed this more than "it works," but still, hard not to feel some begrudging admiration for a movie about the first person to have a bad time in vacation in Iceland. less wry and suspenseful than both The VVitch and The Lighthouse, though still laughably grim at times (and its dramatic irony funnier to me than, say, The Green Knight's stabs at humor). listen, since 2017, there have been dozens – DOZENS!! – of us rooting for the career…
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Dirty Dancing 1987
it’s time to return the catskills to the culturally jewish leisure class. frances canon, duh—what else do you expect me to say?
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