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  Box Cutter 2020

  Watched 20 Jan 2020 13

  made this movie.

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  Knock at the Cabin 2023

  ★★★★½ Watched 03 Feb 2023 4

  Above all else, Shyamalan is a master of spatial relations: a value Hollywood mostly left wayside after its classical period. Still, his charting of interiors is anything but classical. He’s not indebted to removed or consistent camera placements. Despite most of its runtime unfolding with its protagonists tied to chairs, this is a movie packed with movement. Movement is how Shyamalan maps space. There’s a scene where Wen’s creeping across the basement. Shyamalan cuts upstairs to a bathroom dialogue, the…

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  The Rape of the Vampire 1968

  ★★★ Watched 27 Jan 2023

  Rollin's first feature is actually two incongruous shorter works awkwardly conjoined into one. Still, it's satisfying to see his filmography hatch with all his signature fixations fully-formed: sexy vampires, gothic chateau romps, fragmented memories masking past traumas, extreme-close-ups of lips, Rollin’s favourite beach, etc. Formally, this bears unexpected influence from French New Wave filmmaking, complete with jagged cuts and scrambled spatio-temporal relations. (This is striking because Rollin's later work seems largely disinterested in his contemporaries. If anything, he seems to…

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  Halloween 2018

  ★★★ Watched 09 Sep 2018 47

  The idiot in front of me took out his fucking phone and rated this 4/5 on LB halfway through the FUCKING world premiere of this movie.

  (It's pretty good btw)

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  Burn After Reading 2008

  ★★★½ Rewatched 31 Jul 2014 7

  When a Tilda Swinton character feels boring compared to the rest of the characters, you know you have something special. Brad Pitt dominates this film, and makes us all ponder the security... of our shit.