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Favorite films

  • Blue Velvet
  • Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
  • Eraserhead
  • Mulholland Drive

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  • Nashville

    ★★★★★

  • The Warriors

    ★★★★★

  • Dog Day Afternoon

    ★★★★★

  • Jaws

    ★★★★★

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The Holdovers

2023

★★★★★ Liked Watched

This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

Citizen Kane

1941

★★★★★ Liked 2

               The ion of Screenwriting. 
                 Written by Blake Patterson. 

                 Chapter One: Introduction

    “If it can be written, or thought, it can be filmed,” stated by director Stanley Kubrick. At the beginning of cinema, screenwriters could only project ideas through movement. The lack of sound at the time was a barrier to be deal with. Once sound…

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Nashville

1975

★★★★★ Liked Rewatched

Nashville at 50: Cinema's Peak.

  Those who have known me for a few years will likely think of me as the "Altman guy" or "Ashby guy" if one of their movies is brought up in a discussion. There are many reasons for those labels, and one of them explains why I love Robert Altman. Fifty years ago today, Altman’s Nashville was released to the public. Even though he had already established himself as a master with gems like McCabe…

The Warriors

1979

★★★★★ Liked Rewatched

This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

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Triangle of Sadness

2022

½ 8

Next Best Picture says Ruben Östlund’s Triangle of Sadness is “a brilliantly scathing takedown of the wealthy and beautiful.” And The Square was “a brilliantly scathing takedown of” the Left’s hypocrisies. Facetiousness aside, Östlund is, quite possibly, the worst arthouse filmmaker and satirist working today. Östlund is the anti-Buñuel because he replaces subtlety and complexity with broadness and superficiality. While the aim is satirical, Östlund’s execution is unfunny and aggressively dull in how he exaggerates his contempt for the elite’s…

I Saw the TV Glow

2024

★★ Watched

Unsatisfied Surrealism.
I Saw the TV Glow.
Directed by Jane Schoenbrun.

   The image that will likely define Jane Schoenbrun's I Saw the TV Glow is the motif of an ice cream truck with a mix of pink and purple smoke coming from it. The motif is a metaphor for the idealism of nostalgia and the negative aftermath later, as the main character Owen (Ian Foreman as the younger version of Owen and Justice Smith as the older version of…