Letterboxd — Your life in film

non-spoiler review: watch que horas ela volta? (2015) dir. anna muylaert instead

SPOILER review: visually beautiful but to what effect? alfonso cuarón seems to successfully recreate a fully fleshed out world within a specific time period but it ends up feeling like an empty shell because there is no actual life in it. long take after long take, there are no emotions on display and nothing to really connect to until almost the very end (the birth scene and the…

sometimes i'll think a word means something other than what it actually means, and sometimes i just want a word to mean otherwise. the way it sounds, the way it's spelled, the way it feels in the mouth. when i was watching Madeline's Madeline, i could only think of the word cerebral, but i didn't know if it meant what i thought it did, or worse, what i wanted it to say.

because what i meant was something nebulous, something…

'FearDotCom' is a deeply eccentric film with what seems like the supremely generic early 2000's netsploitation title of all time but which ends up being appropriate. All sorts of connections are made here between the early days of German Expressionist Cinema and the early days of the World Wide Web and their shared ability to make a collective cultural dreamspace and how we utilize that space. There is a strong feeling, too, of the Nightmare on Elm Street series, and…