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Favorite films

  • True Romance
  • (500) Days of Summer
  • Heat
  • Dog Day Afternoon

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  • Nixon

    ★★★

  • The ant²

    ★★

  • Rope

    ★★★★★

  • Grey Gardens

    ★★★★

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Fiddler on the Roof

1971

★★★★ Liked Watched

I hardly know ‘er on the roof!

Full Metal Jacket

1987

★★★★★ Liked Rewatched

I’m not one to keep a rocksteady list of favs of all time - but if I did, this is top 5 somewhere. Kubrick’s magnum opus.

Fuck, I could write poetry about this film. Matthew Modine’s “Joker” is better than Joaquin’s, Heath’s, and Jack’s combined. He went through hell and came out the other side, and for the worse. Jokes of erect nipple wet dreams, Mary Jane Rottencrotch, and the great homecoming fuck fantasy are all in the past. The…

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The Taking of Pelham One Two Three

1974

★★★★½ Liked Rewatched

Gesundheit 🤧

Contempt

1963

★★★★★ Liked Watched

Brian's Criterion Challenge 2025 - Film #38 of 52

I think I'm really into French New Wave now. And that has nothing to do with how fantastic Brigitte Bardot looks.

Ok. Maybe it does a little bit. But this film is incredible.

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Einstein and the Bomb

2024

★½ Watched

Without checking what Albert Einstein actually sounded like, I’m confident that this was a terrible impersonation of Albert Einstein.

Amadeus

1984

★★★★★ Liked Rewatched

Diddy killed Tupac

(p.s. this movie is perfect)

(p.s.s. this is my 3000th logged film on Letterboxd and my is only 2 1/2 years old. I don’t have a problem, I can stop any time I want! you’re the one with the problem!)