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Another pristine patch in the quilt of ol’ Wesley!

Very much in conversation with French Dispatch and Asteroid City in of pondering death, legacy and the abstracted facets of the filmmaking/storytelling process.
Anyone saying that he needs to shake things up or “do something different” may as well ask Van Gogh to give realism a shot or for Louis Armstrong to try putting down the trumpet for an album.
The man has honed his toolkit and expands and reconfigures and surprises with every new work. What more do you want??

Jeffery Wright still has a nice voice.

Watched on Saturday June 7, 2025.

Work day in the summer heat did a number on me trying to stay awake, will need to revisit.

Immaculate faces! Kari Sylwan is MVP

Watched on Monday June 2, 2025.

Watched on Monday June 2, 2025.

Filing this with Petra Von Kant under “incredibly beautiful movies that are a fucking chore to sit through”

Still rocks, still undeniably one of the best things ever committed to film.
Not even the woman eating an apple two seats next to me could pierce the hypnotic power of oppressive domestic monotony!

Watched on Sunday May 25, 2025.

Watched on Sunday May 25, 2025.

Cried at least 5 times throughout, then again after finding out Arthur Bressan Jr. and Geoff Edholm died from AIDS complications a couple years after the release of the film and again upon seeing a picture of David Schachter as a now 63-year-old man.

Watched on Wednesday May 21, 2025.

Watched on Wednesday May 21, 2025.

Watched on Wednesday May 21, 2025.

Watched on Wednesday May 21, 2025.

Watched on Tuesday May 20, 2025.

This articulates and demonstrates the type of love that feels so purely like home to me. Was on the verge of tears for most the runtime.

In a better world, Lynn Redgrave would have swept up a big armful of statuettes for this performance.

Watched on Monday May 19, 2025.

Watched on Sunday May 18, 2025.

A nice treat to see this in a theater after seeing it countless times on VHS as a kid.
Vivid and economically satisfying in a way that goes beyond the considerably modest bar of adapting a Saturday morning cartoon to the big screen. Dare I say one of Disney's best theatrical films of the 90's. Maybe the nostalgia clouds the judgement, but maybe, just maybe, those Teven Campbell songs sound that good coming out of Dolby Atmos speakers.
Bill Farmer's voice is a balm for the soul.

90 minutes worth of the first act of a musical bloated to the length of a James Cameron movie without the structural retooling to feel like a singular satisfying viewing experience.
Not a fan!

Ariana, Cynthia and Jonathan Bailey really bring their theater gusto to the material, but John Chu just does not have the juice to their efforts. Why build out such extensive practical sets if you won't utilize them in interesting ways (save for Dancing Through Life)? Why swing the camera around the dancers like they're elaborate decoration rather than compose shots that make them the focal point?

What I really love is the Max Rebo-style band playing in the Ozdust ballroom scene. Not only do you have multiple crested chickens playing a piano and a flying squirrel rocking a drum set, but a proboscis monkey with a fur-trim leather coat shredding on a double neck bass?! Some of the most inspired world building this side of Star Wars and I'm only half joking. Also, special shout-out to the little marmoset speaking with a Queen's English accent. More of that guy please.

EDIT: went to Wikipedia to refresh my memory of the second act and I don’t think I’m going to voluntarily put myself through that :)

Watched on Saturday May 3, 2025.

I feel Coogler's held on to a few irksome tendencies from working at the Marvel factory, but the sheer human messiness and abundance of fun ideas at play almost drown them out. A genuine good time at the movies!

In this day and age of studio filmmaking, it's hard to resist a wide release film where characters sexually desire(!) and even have sex(!!) with each other! Someone in my theater audibly moaned at the brief bit of spit play. And the centerpiece 'barn burner' musical sequence is just undeniably electric.

I am calling for a state of emergency to ask all theater directors across the country to come to LA and hold seminars for filmmakers to teach them the fine art of Blocking Actors.

Screened with live music by Liz Harris

Derek Jarman's Blue - Instrumental Club Mix (Radio Edit)
[complimentary]

Like watching the ghost of every known thing flash before your eyes as the universe dies.
Big thank you to Melinda for getting this programmed. One of the best theatrical viewings of my life.

Fucked up, if true!

One of those perennial classics where I came out with a pretty muted response.

Will likely need to revisit it another time or two in the future to see how it hits for me, but for now, I feel firmly rooted in the camp of this and Lost Highway being bottom-tier Lynch for me. 3 Women did it better!

There are some pretty flowers despite my feelings towards the the bouquet as a whole.
Naomi is fucking incredible, obviously. And Rebekah Del Rio... hearing that voice ring through Hollywood's main auditorium is so transcendent as to make you lose all sense of time and space.

Baffling! And frequently very funny!
Gonna give this time to ruminate but I already feel it growing in estimation in hindsight.

"Of course, the link is encrypted. Pun intended."

Watched on Saturday April 26, 2025.

Watched on Tuesday April 22, 2025.

Watched on Tuesday April 22, 2025.

Watched on Tuesday April 22, 2025.

I've never clocked into a movie's wavelength faster than seeing a giant wiener slowly twirling below a helicopter to the tune of Charles Trenet's rendition of 'La Mer'.

Gentle and erratic in the sweetest swirl cone of tonality.

Three (3!) Enya needle drops!

"Sheila has been studying the art of conversation."
"Oh, you're taking a course in conversation?"
"Yes."
".....😐...........😐.............😐......."

Watched on Monday April 14, 2025.

Seeing the end of a cruel world and living on to see the one you were meant to thrive in…
That’s why redhead gals are built different (and are the best).

The 35mm print was missing the few seconds were Rose breaks the glass on the emergency axe and it abruptly cuts off the credits 3/4’s of the way through “My Heart Will Go On”!

Watched on Thursday April 10, 2025.

Watched on Sunday April 6, 2025.

Watched on Monday March 31, 2025.

Walking out of the Cinemagic with post-divorce Nicole Kidman euphoria.

The Grand Prix conjures a feeling in me that’s only matched by watching Aretha Franklin’s live performance of “You Make Me Feel Like A Natural Woman” at the Kennedy Center.

GET THAT WEAK SHIT OFF MY TRACK!!

Charmant à souhait!

Watched on Saturday March 29, 2025.

This review may contain spoilers.

Third time seeing it and I still get full-body chills during Secretarybird’s transcendence.

In the same league as Babe in of emotionally intelligent animal movies, for what my thoughts are worth.

Watched with Mom

Watched on Monday March 17, 2025.

Watched on Sunday March 16, 2025.

A little bit of Kiarostami, a little bit of Kaurismäki.
One of those movies that feels tailor-made to my tastes.

Has one of the all-timer shot-reverse-shots. You'll know it when you see it.

♫ Love and Marriage, Love and Marriage,
It's an institute you can't disparage ♫

Watched on Sunday March 9, 2025.

Watched on Sunday March 9, 2025.

As picturesque and homey as an old landscape painting hanging on the wall in your grandparents’ house.

Watched on Saturday March 1, 2025.

All the current and coming attractions at the historic Hollywood Theatre in Portland, Oregon. Tickets can be purchased on Hollywood Theatre's website.
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SHOWING TODAY (06/13):
- The Phoenician Scheme
- Friendship
- PHFF: Can Evrenol's Sayara + House of Ashes + Midnight Movies

• The Phoenician Scheme
• Friendship
• Saýara
• House of Ashes
• Arabic Numeral Series 9
• The Sandlot
• Terror Toons
• Personal Demons
• Black Jack: The Movie
• The Rubber Gun

...plus 53 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. The Phoenician Scheme
2. Universal Language
3. Black Bag
4. Sinners
5. Imagination
6. The Shrouds

• The Childhood of a Leader
• The Brutalist
• Better Man
• Hard Truths
• Twin Peaks
• The Musician Monkey
• Hiding Henry
• Old Joy
• Sirocco and the Kingdom of Winds
• Emilia Pérez

...plus 37 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. The Darjeeling Limited
2. The French Dispatch
3. Fantastic Mr. Fox
4. Asteroid City
5. The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Three More
6. The Phoenician Scheme
7. The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
8. Rushmore
9. The Royal Tenenbaums
10. Moonrise Kingdom

...plus 3 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• 127 Hours
• 12 Angry Men
• 12 Years a Slave
• 2001: A Space Odyssey
• 2046

  WORLD OF WONG KAR WAI

• 20th Century Women
• 24 Frames
• 3 Women
• The 400 Blows
• 45 Years

...plus 1093 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Phantom Thread
2. Punch-Drunk Love
3. Licorice Pizza
4. Anima
5. Inherent Vice
6. The Master
7. Boogie Nights
8. Magnolia
9. There Will Be Blood
10. Hard Eight

1. Evil Does Not Exist
2. Hard Truths
3. ME
4. La Chimera
5. Queer
6. Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
7. The Beast
8. Megalopolis
9. Trap
10. Smoke Sauna Sisterhood

...plus 35 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. The Boy and the Heron
2. The Zone of Interest
3. Killers of the Flower Moon
4. Skinamarink
5. Knock at the Cabin
6. Asteroid City
7. Fallen Leaves
8. Kokomo City
9. Showing Up
10. May December

...plus 23 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• The Red Shoes
• Delicatessen
• American Fiction
• The Zone of Interest
• Aloha, Bobby and Rose
• Of Human Bondage
• And Then We Danced
• Coffee with Barbie
• One False Move
• Dune

...plus 79 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Rush
• Petite Maman
• A Love Song

1. Memoria
2. TÁR
3. Babylon
4. Mad God
5. RRR
6. We're All Going to the World's Fair
7. Nope
8. Decision to Leave
9. Crimes of the Future
10. Three Thousand Years of Longing

...plus 30 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Babylon
• Leonor Will Never Die
• The Whale
• Rashomon
• The Fabelmans
• Coal Miner's Daughter
• Barbarella
• Demolition of a Wall
• Women Talking
• Edward II

...plus 88 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Presented alphabetically

Per Wim Wenders, this list will be different tomorrow

1. The Adventures of Prince Achmed
2. All That Jazz
3. In the Mood for Love
4. Outer Space
5. The Scarlet Empress
6. The Seduction of Mimi
7. Sherlock Jr.
8. Some Like It Hot
9. Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story
10. Ugetsu

1. Moonlight
2. Under the Skin
3. Certified Copy
4. The Act of Killing
5. The Look of Silence
6. Inside Llewyn Davis
7. Holy Motors
8. Carol
9. The Master
10. Mad Max: Fury Road

...plus 91 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.