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Favorite films

  • The Fly
  • Imprint
  • Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom
  • The Cell

All
  • Confessions of a Congressman

    ★★★½

  • The Red Turtle

    ★½

  • The Laughing Woman

    ★★★★★

  • The Blood of a Poet

    ★★★★

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Confessions of a Congressman

1978

★★★½ Watched

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I'm not trying to be an understanding wife. I'm trying to behave like a Marxist.

Queer political drama by Spanish gay socialist director Eloy de la Iglesias, the first I've seen from him. Leftist politician on the rise during the Spanish transition to democracy can't keep his hands off of teenage boys, which becomes a ruthless weapon in the hands of the Fascists. A sombre and no-frills relational drama with elements of romance that primarily focuses on…

The Red Turtle

2016

★½ Watched

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Bearded guy with lots of pent-up aggressions fucks a dead turtle and creates a new mutant species. Or something. Really lost my patience with this humdrum attempt at lyrical animation.

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Zero Day

2025

★★ Watched

I liked how, in the first episode, they set up for the possibility that the raccoons were the conspirators.

Cannonball

1976

★★½ Watched

Paul Bartel's second campy trans-continental carmageddon action comedy, after dystopian sci-fi satire Death Race 2000, has a lot more action and, unfortunately, a lot less charm. The point of these films is not the race at all, but the outlandish characters, and the cast is a lot less flamboyant here - no Matilda the Hun, no Nero the Hero, no Machine Gun Joe Viterbo. Worst of all, Bartel has thrown out one of the most iconic looks of '70s sploitation,…