Scout Tafoya

“One hundred years ago on the 21st of April, out in the waters around Spivey Point, a small clipper ship drew toward land...”

Favorite films

  • Man of the West
  • Men in War
  • The Tall Target
  • Reign of Terror

All
  • Inland Empire

    ★★★★★

  • Immortals

    ★★★★½

  • Demon

    ★★★★½

  • Bust-Up

    ★★★★★

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Inland Empire

2006

★★★★★ Watched

190/200

“The films of David Lynch hold eternities inside their reels. When he switched to digital for Inland Empire, he freed himself even from the confines of twenty four strips of celluloid. He could shoot and take up unreal space like his own imagination. There was nothing to prevent him from creating so much that there is no way to find the end. A maze lying in the shock of a flashlight pointed into your eyes. I first saw Inland…

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Moonage Daydream

2022

★★½ 23

97/200

Someday someone will make a movie about David Bowie that doesn’t obfuscate his actual achievements and rely on the very literal language of myth but uhh today’s not that day. Stupefyingly unimaginative, this uses footage from movies starring Bowie (footage with one set of specific intentions) and footage of movies Bowie probably watched (with a completely different set of intentions at best tangentially related to what Bowie got out of them, at worst horrifically literal interpretations of what Bowie…

Babylon

2022

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

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