jronch

liker of movies, feeler of things

Favorite films

  • Good Will Hunting
  • Incendies
  • Fantastic Planet
  • Black Swan

All
  • Russia 1985-1999: TraumaZone

    ★★★½

  • Finke: There & Back

    ★★★

  • Sinners

    ★★★½

  • Trainspotting

    ★★★★½

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Russia 1985-1999: TraumaZone

2022

★★★½ Liked Watched

spent the whole time caught between wondering why any of this was even captured to begin with and feeling wrenchingly grateful that it was. brilliant and beautiful and im all the better for having seen it

Finke: There & Back

2018

★★★ Liked Watched

a pretty nice watch and a fun window into the lives of these kinds of people. would like to be there for it one year, and a bit biased about the whole thing because im due to do the adjacent larapinta trail in a matter of weeks

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Trainspotting

1996

★★★★½ Liked Rewatched

so wonderfully unique and brilliant. a frantic visual poem of loyalty, hedonism and suffering that asks questions i will spend the rest of my life trying to answer. a soundtrack for the ages, a fucking good time, and golly gosh do i want to put my lips on the immaculate sick boy

Queer

2024

★★½ Watched

the man knows style and bodies, but the flimsy worldbuilding of 1950s mexico feels so much like a set in contrast to the enchanting atmosphere of northen italy in call me by your name that you ask yourself if that's the point (it's not). props to luca for his homage to magritte; the legless floating lady even looked like georgette, and the clouds and the eye were a fun personal surprise just weeks after visiting his museum in brussels. ethereal…

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