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  • Tess
  • Beauty and the Beast
  • Clearcut
  • Cure

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  • Heat

    ★★★★★

  • Toby Dammit

    ★★★★

  • The Velvet Vampire

    ★★★

  • My Man Godfrey

    ★★★★★

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  • Heat

    Heat

    ★★★★★

    I watched Heat last night for the third time in a month. Today I found myself at Bob’s Big Boy in Burbank. Guess where I got seated? Right where Robert De Nero sat. About to go rob a bank now.

  • The Velvet Vampire

    The Velvet Vampire

    ★★★

    All I asked of this movie is for it to be a SoCal gothic mood board and it 100% delivered

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  • Princess Mononoke

    Princess Mononoke

    ★★★★★

    Humans have a limited capacity to see death for what it really is. There is nothing more emblematic of life than death. The beauty of nature shown in this movie is not safe and makes no promises, but it never fails to persevere. 

    Miyazaki wanted to make this movie to show young people that they should live. I feel privileged to have watched it for the first time(of many) when I was sixteen. Now that I’m almost 24, the ending…

  • Nostalgia

    Nostalgia

    ★★★★★

    The beauty of death and depression, the warmth of memory’s candle when nothing else can warm you, symmetry as an attempt to bring order to the shattered. 

    There is nothing more poignant than to be understood, and for a brief moment two outsiders understand each other.

    I feel like I know this movie inside and out, and I almost don’t care to read interpretations of the meaning because I feel like I understood the meaning implicitly as the movie took…