• American Graffiti

    American Graffiti

    ★★★½

    I guess film professors are really into this one.

  • Sunset Boulevard

    Sunset Boulevard

    ★★★★★

    This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

    “Audiences don’t know somebody sits down and writes a picture; they think the actors make it up as they go along.”

    Your eyes do not deceive you. This is a new diary entry. Watching this on a TV screen with subtitles and someone’s head blocking part of it just wasn’t the way to go. The fact that I immediately had to see this on a bigger screen was all the justification I needed to give it the rating it deserves.…

  • Sunset Boulevard

    Sunset Boulevard

    ★★★★½

    Staying inside, watching movies, dancing, and being given anything you want on a whim! Oh no! What a horrible life this Joe Gillis leads!

  • Bridesmaids

    Bridesmaids

    ½

  • Lawrence of Arabia

    Lawrence of Arabia

    ★★★★

    Definitely Obiwan at his darkest.

    1000th film 

  • Memories of Murder

    Memories of Murder

    ★★★★

  • Hard Eight

    Hard Eight

    ★★★

    I thought there would be more like, yknow…gambling

  • City Lights

    City Lights

    ★★★½

    Why did he give her a thousand dollars for her to see again? They could’ve just gone to Mr. Beast

  • Wild Strawberries

    Wild Strawberries

    ★★★★

    Not the context I expect to hear someone say Skrattar in

  • Seven Beauties

    Seven Beauties

    ★★★½

    Closeup shots on eyes look great when you have Giancarlo Giannini’s eyes to shoot.

  • Love and Anarchy

    Love and Anarchy

    ★★★★

    It may be because we were shown spaghetti western footage right before watching this in class, but Tunin at the beginning of the film seemed so much like a strong, silent gunman. He’s made to look like the hero, but we quickly find out that all his moments of silence are him pondering what he’s going to do. He’s deeply afraid of the part he has to play, and even more so when he finds something to lose. I appreciated…

  • Casablanca

    Casablanca

    ★★★★

    Little known fact: the writing of The Tortured and the Hare was inspired by this, with entire scenes being rewritten on the fly and the ending not being decided on until the last minute.