Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  It Chapter Two 2019

  Watched 20 Apr 2023

  I found these characters very relatable because I too cannot remember what happened in It: Part One.

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  Lisa and the Devil 1973

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 08 Sep 2022

  Jotting down my dream before I completely wake up:

  The stop motion tarot cards on red velvet
  The Telly Savalas fresco devil
  The seafoam green jacket and heels
  The curiosity shop
  Dragging a mannequin around the labyrinth streets of wherever
  The Devil’s lollipop
  The guy who looks like Percy Bysshe Shelley with his plunging neckline and velvet waistcoat
  The wobbly cigarette mirror kiss
  So many broken watches and clocks with ominous drums
  The Devil offering a radish to a taxidermied…

Popular reviews

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  The 'Teddy' Bears 1907

  ★★★½ Watched 24 Jan 2018

  Brutal home invasion flick.

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  Spiral Jetty 1970

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 05 Feb 2018

  The first time I watched this (two years ago?) was late at night in the back room of a specialty salt facility. An old print on original film played through a rickety projector. The perfect way to experience this odd and inspiring semi-documentary. Smithson's deadpan delivery reminds me of listening to John Ashbery reading his poems aloud. I was enthralled.

  The film is fascinating companion to the monumental piece out in the Utah desert, which my father and I made…