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One of my favourite short films! Spike Jonze is THE MAN.

This film captures a specific time and place (downtown NY in the early 80s) beautifully, blurring the line between fiction and reality in a way that’s exciting and strange. Basquiat’s intense charm and melancholy is difficult to look away from.

A subtle portrait of a two men trying to reconnect. Kelly Reichardt is the master of leaving things unsaid, and she can portray so much through tone and visual subtext; the sense of place in her films is just as important as the characters who inhabit them.

A moving and intimate documentary about young women on the brink of adulthood. It's rare that we as an audience get to see accurate representations of young women at this stage in their lives but here we get reality; there is no sense of condescension or glamorisation.

I don’t think that this movie wants me to want to drive around America and sleep in a car and think about working in a fishery in Alaska, but then again it kind of makes me want to do that? Am I broken?

A quiet yet powerful film about faith, history and self discovery.
Can't wait for whatever Paweł Pawlikowski does next!

Did I like it? I don’t know. I think so? But definitely a very unique take on the classic “coming-of-age” story, and not like anything I’ve seen before. I respect the vision.

Gus Van Sant? Skateboarding? Elliott Smith? Meloncholy teens? Tragic coming-of-age? A yes from me.

“You know it’s funny, you come to someplace new and everything looks just the same.”

Oops, twice in a week