Mike Dougherty

Film programmer in Los Angeles now bringing rep cinema to screens in LA and NYC, but mostly watching American Dad in my living room.

Favorite films

  • Black Narcissus
  • The Night of the Iguana
  • Tea and Sympathy
  • The Innocents

All
  • Day of Wrath

    ★★★★

  • The Life of Chuck

    ★★★

  • Mountainhead

    ★½

  • The Phoenician Scheme

    ★★★½

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Day of Wrath

1943

★★★★ Watched

Somehow the creepiest part for me was the shot of the sheet music for the song the angelic boys choir performs at the witch burnings.

The Life of Chuck

2024

★★★ Watched

I never thought you’d get me to say “this movie has too much dancing”, but here we are.

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Deadpool & Wolverine

2024

2

Ten years from now- and that count’s generous - nothing in this movie will have any cultural relevance whatsoever. Some fanboy will show this to their kid and spend the whole time explaining why jokes lightly referencing Jennifer Garner’s divorce from Ben Affleck are funny.

Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles

1975

★★★★★ Liked 2

I’ve been secretly afraid all these years that you’ve all been lying and I’d be intensely bored, but when Ms. Jeanne overcooked those potatoes I was like, ohhhh shiiiiiiiiit….

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