Adam_Mc

Favorite films

  • Once Upon a Time in the West
  • Children of Men
  • The Frenzy of Orlando
  • Steamboat Bill, Jr.

All
  • The Keeper of Lost Causes

  • Caught by the Tides

    ★★

  • Naked

    ★★★

  • Beating Hearts

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The Keeper of Lost Causes

2013

Watched

I think the secret to Nordic noir was that Stieg Larrson was good and dead. Everyone could take what they needed from him, commodify it, and strip out the anti-Nazi politics/anti-misogyny politics, or dumb them down to a level where they're non-threatening for mainstream audiences.

Caught by the Tides

2024

★★ Watched

Must've gone so hard the night China found out it was getting the Olympics

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The Song of Roland

1978

★★★★★ Watched

This shit ruled. Does such a good job of conveying how alien the middle ages must have been. A time when hunger was rampant, innovation existed only in the field of torture, people spent their nights listening to jethro tull and debating marxism, there was only one bath a year and you had to watch your lord take it, you could ride your horse in that illegal w pattern that makes them trip because there's no peta...

No but seriously…

The Stronghold

2021

½ Watched

The first half was generic cop shit. Some beautiful shots of Marseilles and some decent action sequences, though the people who live in the projects are completely dehumanized. I can stomach a bit of copaganda now and again but the second half went into self-pitying overdrive when the trio of cop heroes get thrown into jail for playing by their own set of rules. Eventually they get out by throwing their female informant/love interest under the bus, presumably to live…

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