Avalyn Wu Patron

filmmaker / marxist / lesbian

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Favorite films

  • Angel Face
  • The Enclosed Valley
  • The Man I Love
  • Gang of Four

All
  • The Peaceable Kingdom

    ★★★

  • Western History

    ★★★★

  • Door

    ★★★

  • Angels'

    ★★★

More
The Peaceable Kingdom

1971

★★★ 2

Brakhage sure loved his animals.

Seen at Anthology Film Archives in New York City in 16mm

Western History

1971

★★★★ 2

According to Stan Brakhage, the only thing that truly matters in so-called Western history is basketball.

Seen at Anthology Film Archives in New York City in 16mm

More
Kinds of Kindness

2024

½ 3

I hate how Lanthimos edits his movies, I hate where he places his camera, I hate how he moves his camera, I hate how he directs his actors, I hate how he uses his score, I hate his sense of humor, I hate his use of dissolves, his use of black-and-white, I hate every single decision he makes. Provocation for prudes, mannered garbage posing as weirdness. Truly worthless.

Seen at AMC Lincoln Square 13 in New York City

Nosferatu

2024

5

A hideous bore. A ion project with no vision. On a scene-to-scene, shot-to-shot basis, it seems to have no idea what it wants to be. For all his virtuosic camera movement, Robert Eggers somehow manages to land on the same exact composition every single time. This a dusty toy box, not a film, a withering object protected from the sunlight of a person capable of thinking. I miss Anya Taylor-Joy.

Seen at AMC Empire 25 in New York City