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This movie is really sustained and brilliantly crafted for the first say hour until it starts to slide into a silly Brian DePalma absurd serial killer movie that's then redeemed by a great ending and all timer of a punchline to a joke set up beautifully right from the beginning of the film and throughout. Would love this movie more if it took itself a bit more seriously I suppose and maybe dialed the campy aspects down a touch BUT we already have The Conversation, Blow Up, heck even Rear Window for that kind of movie. So this is a welcome addition and totally DePalma through and through. I think Phantom of the Paradise and Body Double are still my favourites.

Sydney film festival 5th pick

Sydney film festival 4th pick

Meandering movie about an entitled guy doing a misguided art robbery and then laying from the law. Was fairly pleasant and enjoyable in parts and the kids were cute. Essential nap time viewing, you won't even be lost!

Also wanted to add in that's its a clever idea to remove male hubris from the caper scenario but I think Reichardt needed to replace it with more for the film to pop. I do appreciate a bit of anti cinema sometimes though in other forms.

Soundtrack Low-key very enjoyable

Sydney film festival 3

Andrew Scott is my main man. The joys and tragedy of being a creative person/being in a creative partnership. Well written and surprisingly emotional. Less romantic than I figured it was gonna be going in.

Sydney Film Festival 2nd Pick

Saw this with a Q&A and I regret not asking him a question about the mindblowing special effect of the demon entering the real world. There's a stretch in the middle of this movie with that scene after a very moving viewing of A Nightmare On Elm street where this movie is truly great. Though it's sandwiched with a mixed bag of great abstract surrealism, lofi tech ingenuity, awkward kind of bad performances, and some of the second half felt a bit like a youtube video film instead of a theatrical movie. But that Demon in the middle entering the real world that really took me out of my seat man!

Every influence the director listed was very felt in the experience of the movie and hope to see more in future.

Sydney Film Festival 1st Pick

I wish it was a little meaner, a little darker and a little more visceral. Dave Franco is also a touch annoying. But was a very cool concept! I can't believe it hasn't been done before in fact. The fact the director did like 120 of the 150 special effects shots is pretty mind blowing to me. As a filmmaker myself I don't know the first thing about visual effects work like that so it's literally magic to me in indie filmmaking especially. Also love Alison Brie, Cryanne for life.

Many funny scenes and the movie was quite cute. Probably a great date movie for all you little freaks out there.

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I'm not gonna rate this just gonna share a few things (from wikipedia) that sum it all up okay. Though do some research the history of this movie is fascinating.

Film critic Roger Ebert wrote:

Certainly The Birth of a Nation (1915) presents a challenge for modern audiences. Unaccustomed to silent films and uninterested in film history, they find it quaint and not to their taste. Those evolved enough to understand what they are looking at find the early and wartime scenes brilliant, but cringe during the postwar and Reconstruction scenes, which are racist in the ham-handed way of an old minstrel show or a vile comic pamphlet.

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Studies have linked the film to greater for the KKK. Glorifying the Klan to approving white audiences, the film became a national cultural phenomenon: merchandisers made Ku Klux hats and kitchen aprons, and ushers dressed in white Klan robes for openings. In New York there were Klan-themed balls and, in Chicago that Halloween, thousands of college students dressed in robes for a massive Klan-themed party.

Dixon (the author) a racist and white supremacist, clearly was rattled and upset by criticism by African Americans that the movie encouraged hatred against them, and he wanted the endorsement of as many powerful men as possible to offset such criticism. Dixon always vehemently denied having anti-black prejudices—despite the way his books promoted white supremacy—and stated: "My books are hard reading for a Negro, and yet the Negroes, in denouncing them, are unwittingly denouncing one of their greatest friends".

It's a horrible racist movie with amazing filmmaking and set pieces. Essential viewing for deep cinema historians.. obviously. Fuck Dixon and Griffith but also fuck me for enjoying some of those epic set pieces. It's incredible filmmaking and we should not ignore this because that's also why this is so wrong right. If the movie wasn't good you could just shrug it off. Anyway I'm really just trying to watch all the they shoot pictures don't they films before I die and at least I haven't logged triumph of the will.. yet..

Watched on Wednesday May 21, 2025.

Watched on Wednesday May 21, 2025.

This review may contain spoilers.

No one's gonna talk about the incest are they? Okay I'll be real I think that wasn't his Mum but totally thought it was at the time and was extremely awkward watching with my mum.

Also really fun flick. I loved the setup and the logic of the vampires really appealed to me personally. Also would have watched the film without the vampires so that's a plus too.

He didn't need to have all those constant callbacks but I loved that it was it was a super short span of time covered and found on the whole it was filled with lots of interesting ideas. So much better than Black Panther at the very least.

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Went so hard. Especially loved how incredibly directed the first 20 minutes of this was. Perfectly put together. It sort of becomes a series of consecutive short films that are held together by an incredible central performance and atmosphere for days. I'd be lying if I didn't say I slipped out of it a little from time to time but you put on some good tunes and give this film a spin I can't say you'll have a bad time.

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Gotta say the first 25 minutes weren't really that important to the story and so the "main plot?" Definitely felt pretty rushed but a lot of interesting heady stuff in here if told a little too didactic.

Though when the movie ignored the plot and let you bathe in the city scapes it is truly gorgeous and I felt like giving it extra love for inspiring my beloved metal gear solid franchise.

Watched on Monday April 28, 2025.

Dumb campy fun and I can't say i didn't have a ball at the anniversary screening.

Everyone in the cinema erupted into laughter when Anakin killed the young lings.

Anakins turn to the dark side is completely unbelievable. He has one bad dream and then all of a sudden he's a fascist God.

The relatively positive review is my deep ironic enjoying of Palpatine and I love the higher ground bit and Mace Windu's deaths are hilarious. It's probably more like a 5 but choosing to not be a spoil sport.. this one time.

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Essential comfort movie vibes only

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That wasn't even a sex scene Julie was reaching out for love and connection. Also the Hitch-hikers monologue was great too. The second half of this movie rocks and the first half is mostly Chantal eating sugar so it's really up to you if you wanna watch it or not. I gave it extra points for making a brave queer movie in the 70s and I feel my own kind of guilt watching it as a straight man. You can take that review as you will.

That quince tree was a little temptress at the end just begging to be painted again..

• Blossoms Shanghai
• The Memory Police
• Vortex
• Paris, 13th District
• Drive My Car
• Pleasure
• Dune: Part Three
• Rendezvous with Rama
• One Battle After Another
• 28 Years Later

...plus 5 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Phantom of the Paradise
• Body Double
• Carrie
• Scarface
• Blow Out
• Carlito's Way
• Mission: Impossible
• Dressed to Kill
• ion

I have no way of making this list comprehensive as i didn't log the past into this thoroughly but I will moving forward and I've attempted to include all previous films.

My little tribute to my absolute favourite place in my home city, Sydney and perhaps indeed the world. It's truly a little home for me.

• Babe: Pig in the City
• West Indies
• Lola Montès
• The Ballad of Narayama
• The Fly
• The Awful Truth
• Solaris
• On the Silver Globe
• An American in Paris
• Blue Velvet

...plus 81 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Blow Out
• The Mastermind
• Babe: Pig in the City
• Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation
• Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol
• Kind Hearts and Coronets
• Legally Blonde
• The Long Goodbye
• Little Shop of Horrors
• Adolescence

...plus 105 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Sinners
2. Final Destination Bloodlines
3. Blue Moon
4. Together
5. OBEX
6. Happyend
7. Companion
8. Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning
9. The Mastermind
10. Mickey 17

• Together
• OBEX
• Blue Moon
• The Mastermind
• Happyend
• Mirrors No. 3
• The Secret Agent
• Eddington
• Sorry, Baby
• The Blue Trail

...plus 5 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Program so far, updates await!

• 2000 Meters to Andriivka
• 3 Faces
• Agatha's Almanac
• All I Had Was Nothingness
• All That’s Left of You
• Alpha.
• Always
• Ancestral Visions of the Future
• André is an Idiot
• Angel's Egg

...plus 128 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

as of 2025

1. Shoah
2. A Brighter Summer Day
3. Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
4. Histoire(s) du cinéma
5. Céline and Julie Go Boating
6. Napoleon
7. Moonlight
8. The Quiet Man
9. The Life of Oharu
10. The Travelling Players

...plus 235 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Normally watch a movie at M's once a week but only count one of them being the more memorable one for better or worse, but sometimes log more if it's a series like Alien/Aliens and the following week Alien3/Resurrection etc.

• Sinners
• The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
• Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
• The Doors
• Scarface
• ¡Casa Bonita Mi Amor!
• Mickey 17
• Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
• Red Rocket
• Days of Heaven

...plus 44 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Sinners
• The Sacrifice
• Stalker
• Mirror
• Ivan's Childhood
• Body Double
• Lawrence of Arabia
• Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
• Anora
• The Conformist

...plus 9 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Citizen Kane
• F for Fake
• Othello
• Chimes at Midnight
• Touch of Evil
• The Trial
• The Other Side of the Wind
• The Magnificent Ambersons
• The Lady from Shanghai
• The Immortal Story

...plus 1 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Stalker
• Mirror
• Andrei Rublev
• Solaris
• The Sacrifice
• Ivan's Childhood
• Nostalgia

My 250 favourite films and more(no particular order... for now)

1. Seven Samurai

   endlessly inventive dramatic excitement

2. Rashomon
3. The Apartment
4. There Will Be Blood
5. Once Upon a Time in the West
6. Ikiru
7. Taxi Driver
8. Jules and Jim
9. The Graduate
10. Blue Velvet

...plus 240 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Bicycle Thieves
• Harakiri
• Tokyo Story
• Ikiru
• In the Mood for Love
• The Vanishing
• 8½
• Fanny and Alexander
• Eyes Without a Face
• The Celebration

...plus 90 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Letter from an Unknown Woman
2. The Earrings of Madame de...
3. Lola Montès
4. Le Plaisir

• Kind Hearts and Coronets
• Laura
• The 39 Steps
• The Asphalt Jungle
• The Bad and the Beautiful
• One, Two, Three
• The Night of the Hunter
• Witness for the Prosecution
• Le Trou
• To Have and Have Not

...plus 7 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
• Rushmore
• The Swan
• Fantastic Mr. Fox
• The Grand Budapest Hotel
• The Royal Tenenbaums
• The Darjeeling Limited
• Bottle Rocket
• The Rat Catcher
• Isle of Dogs

...plus 4 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Children of Men
2. Y Tu Mamá También
3. Disclaimer
4. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
5. Roma
6. Gravity

• The Skin I Live In
• Talk to Her
• Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
• All About My Mother

• My Cousin Vinny
• Ex Machina
• Top Hat
• The Band Wagon
• His Girl Friday
• Before Sunrise
• Before Sunset
• Before Midnight
• The Young Girls of Rochefort
• Moon

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• Memories of Murder
• Parasite
• Okja
• Snowpiercer
• Mickey 17
• The Host

• The Lighthouse
• The Northman
• The Witch
• Nosferatu

• Grizzly Man
• Bicycle Thieves
• The ion of Joan of Arc
• A Woman Under the Influence
• Umberto D.
• The Swimmer
• The Graduate
• Dead Ringers
• Ashes and Diamonds
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

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• Anora
• Red Rocket
• The Florida Project
• Tangerine
• Take Out

#tsukamoto

• Tetsuo: The Iron Man
• Tokyo Fist
• Bullet Ballet
• Tetsuo II: Body Hammer
• Haze
• A Snake of June

A ranking of the films I have seen so far

1. Pierrot le Fou
2. Breathless
3. Band of Outsiders
4. Every Man for Himself
5. Vivre Sa Vie
6. Alphaville
7. Weekend
8. Masculin Féminin
9. Contempt
10. Sympathy for the Devil

1. The Rules of the Game
2. Grand Illusion
3. La Chienne
4. The River
5. A Day in the Country
6. Boudu Saved from Drowning
7. The Crime of Monsieur Lange

A ranking of Terry Gilliam

1. Monty Python and the Holy Grail
2. Brazil
3. The Fisher King
4. Twelve Monkeys
5. The Man Who Killed Don Quixote
6. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
7. Time Bandits
8. The Brothers Grimm
9. The Adventures of Baron Munchausen

• Blade Runner
• Alien
• The Counselor
• American Gangster
• Thelma & Louise
• Gladiator
• Black Hawk Down
• Body of Lies
• Prometheus
• The Duellists

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1. Bicycle Thieves
2. Three Colours: Blue
3. Three Colours: White
4. Three Colours: Red
5. Twin Peaks: The Return
6. Apocalypse Now
7. Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse
8. Yojimbo
9. Sanjuro
10. Seven Samurai

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If it says 24 on letterboxd or I saw it in an Australian cinema after February im counting it.

1. Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World
2. The Substance
3. There's Still Tomorrow
4. Anora
5. Motel Destino
6. I Saw the TV Glow
7. The Brutalist
8. The Seed of the Sacred Fig
9. Kinds of Kindness
10. Kneecap

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Obviously a bit fast and loose (I don't care to elaborate).

1. There Will Be Blood
2. Mulholland Drive
3. Burning
4. The Master
5. Oldboy
6. Phantom Thread
7. Bad Tidings
8. A Complete Unknown
9. Nosferatu
10. Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl

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1. Anora
2. The Substance
3. The Brutalist
4. Dune: Part Two
5. A Complete Unknown

Had to sneak Twin Peaks in there. It's the greatest. It never gives you what you want but its such great art.

1. Twin Peaks: The Return
2. Twin Peaks
3. Blue Velvet
4. Mulholland Drive
5. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
6. Eraserhead
7. Lost Highway
8. The Straight Story
9. Wild at Heart
10. Inland Empire

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• Rocco and His Brothers
• Senso
• Le Notti Bianche
• The Leopard
• The Damned
• Death in Venice
• Obsession

• Flowers of Shanghai
• Farewell My Concubine
• The 36th Chamber of Shaolin
• Bottoms
• Sing Sing
• Mother, Couch
• Love Lies Bleeding
• The Beast
• Saint Maud
• The Wrong Man

...plus 8 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Alice in the Cities
• Wings of Desire
• The American Friend
• Paris, Texas
• Perfect Days
• Kings of the Road
• Until the End of the World

Films to consider

• The Tenant
• Funeral Parade of Roses
• Rabid
• Shivers
• Don't Torture a Duckling
• The Shout
• Don't Look Now
• The Lighthouse
• Body Double
• Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

...plus 43 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• House of Games
• The Quiet Earth
• The Sunset Limited
• The Boy and the Heron
• The Holdovers
• The Princess Bride
• Opening Night
• Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
• Ferrari
• Moonstruck

...plus 183 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• True Romance
• Society
• Memento
• The American Friend
• Aliens
• The King of Comedy
• The Substance
• In Bruges
• Werckmeister Harmonies
• Satantango

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Some of these are memes and some of these are great movies and some are utter trite. I trust you to come up with your own conclusions

• Joker
• Society
• They Live
• Parasite
• The Matrix
• Cats
• Rashomon
• The Ruling Class
• Driving Miss Daisy
• Do the Right Thing

...plus 18 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• The Godfather Part II
• Apocalypse Now
• The Godfather
• The Conversation
• Rumble Fish
• Bram Stoker's Dracula
• The Godfather Part III
• The Outsiders
• Megalopolis

A ranking of the films of Hitchcock that I have thus far seen.

1. Rear Window
2. Vertigo
3. Psycho
4. Strangers on a Train
5. North by Northwest
6. Notorious
7. Shadow of a Doubt
8. The Birds
9. Rebecca
10. The Pleasure Garden

...plus 6 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
• Nosferatu
• The Last Laugh
• Tabu: A Story of the South Seas
• Faust

• Werckmeister Harmonies
• Satantango
• The Turin Horse

• Hot Fuzz
• Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
• Shaun of the Dead
• Baby Driver
• The World's End
• Last Night in Soho

1. Battleship Potemkin
2. Alexander Nevsky
3. Ivan the Terrible, Part II: The Boyars' Plot
4. Ivan the Terrible, Part I

1. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
2. The Misfits
3. The Dead
4. The African Queen
5. Fat City
6. The Maltese Falcon
7. Moby Dick
8. The Bible: In the Beginning...

• The Damned
• Hard to Be a God
• Distant Voices, Still Lives
• The Long Day Closes
• Andrei Rublev
• Underground
• Kings of the Road
• The Puppetmaster
• Heaven's Gate
• A Star Is Born

...plus 6 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Seven Samurai
• Rashomon
• Harakiri
• Throne of Blood
• Lancelot of the Lake
• Marketa Lazarová
• The Seventh Seal
• Yojimbo
• Sanjuro
• Ran

...plus 14 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.