Letterboxd 4v3r4n Zack https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/mr_lamp/ Letterboxd - Zack My Name 196y6p 1978 - ★★★★ https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/mr_lamp/film/-my-name/ letterboxd-review-910627764 Sun, 8 Jun 2025 23:27:30 +1200 2025-06-08 No My Name 1978 4.0 84207 <![CDATA[

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Although the plot points might not hang together in your rational mind when you watch this there’s a dark, serpentine substance at the center of this film that is coherent and weirdly horny

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The Honeymoon Killers 3x4i65 1970 - ★★★★★ https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/mr_lamp/film/the-honeymoon-killers/1/ letterboxd-review-910624303 Sun, 8 Jun 2025 23:22:29 +1200 2025-06-08 Yes The Honeymoon Killers 1970 5.0 10237 <![CDATA[

The use of Mahler really puts this one in another category…the ecstasy of poisoned hearts

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Like Mike 3v6h4q 2002 https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/mr_lamp/film/like-mike/ letterboxd-review-909679913 Sun, 8 Jun 2025 02:39:27 +1200 2025-06-07 No Like Mike 2002 21972 <![CDATA[

We are all orphans…

Anyone else feel like there’s a Mullholland Drive influence here?

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Videodrome 3s1u1z 1983 - ★★★★★ https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/mr_lamp/film/videodrome/1/ letterboxd-review-905141699 Mon, 2 Jun 2025 14:43:13 +1200 2025-06-01 Yes Videodrome 1983 5.0 837 <![CDATA[

Condemned boat…

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Céline and Julie Go Boating 655e73 1974 - ★★★★★ https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/mr_lamp/film/celine-and-julie-go-boating/2/ letterboxd-review-904790664 Mon, 2 Jun 2025 08:57:39 +1200 2025-06-01 Yes Céline and Julie Go Boating 1974 5.0 27019 <![CDATA[

Commentary by Adrian Martin

“…there is no more cheerful a fairytale “ - Gilles Deleuze

If you’ve run out of Lynch films to watch and need the vision of someone else who gets it…here is your film.

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Special Effects 4r4q2w 1984 - ★★★★ https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/mr_lamp/film/special-effects/ letterboxd-review-904646885 Mon, 2 Jun 2025 06:43:51 +1200 2025-06-01 No Special Effects 1984 4.0 97975 <![CDATA[

A rich text delivered w brute force. Things might not hang together perfectly here but Cohen is so good and image making who cares?

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Black Caesar 1o514y 1973 https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/mr_lamp/film/black-caesar/ letterboxd-review-902949021 Sat, 31 May 2025 12:36:14 +1200 2025-05-30 No Black Caesar 1973 22029 <![CDATA[

A film spilling its guts everywhere…ITS ALIVE

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Hot Ticket 3alq 1993 https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/mr_lamp/film/hot-ticket-1993/ letterboxd-watch-902870881 Sat, 31 May 2025 10:45:12 +1200 2025-05-30 No Hot Ticket 1993 479470 <![CDATA[

Watched on Friday May 30, 2025.

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Pee 451q6h wee as Himself, 2025 https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/mr_lamp/film/pee-wee-as-himself-1/ letterboxd-review-902870059 Sat, 31 May 2025 10:44:14 +1200 2025-05-30 No Pee-wee as Himself 2025 277685 <![CDATA[

What was Pee Wee doing for America? I found it illuminating to learn about Paul Reuben’s collections of post war toys, ephemera, chatchkies, etc. I was reminded of one of his appearances on Letterman where you can hear a woman unable to control herself in the audience- hysterical for reasons she probably couldn’t fathom. I think Pee wee unleashed a jouissance we had all been holding post Hiroshima about toys and garbage cultural items that flooded our childhoods- the simulacrum that covered up all the death - the plastic and the colors and the cheapness- I think pee wee showed us what we all wanted to do- go incredibly bonkers and hyperactive about it all. I think he helped us mediate all that energy for a few years. Thankfully he did it with sweetness and grace…Paul Reubens was a vessel and he was eventually punished for it. Very sad. America has no idea what to do with artists.

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Pee 451q6h wee's Big Holiday, 2016 https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/mr_lamp/film/pee-wees-big-holiday/ letterboxd-review-902856047 Sat, 31 May 2025 10:27:46 +1200 2025-05-30 No Pee-wee's Big Holiday 2016 347689 <![CDATA[

A lot that could have gone wrong here but didn’t. Charming…missing the snap of Big Adventure but not short ideas and fun.

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In the Mouth of Madness 385f1l 1994 https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/mr_lamp/film/in-the-mouth-of-madness/ letterboxd-review-899813387 Tue, 27 May 2025 22:56:58 +1200 2025-05-27 No In the Mouth of Madness 1994 2654 <![CDATA[

It’s soothing to visit the early 90’s. Very affecting as it goes on.

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A Clockwork Orange g152g 1971 - ★★★★★ https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/mr_lamp/film/a-clockwork-orange/ letterboxd-review-899492152 Tue, 27 May 2025 13:21:49 +1200 2025-05-26 No A Clockwork Orange 1971 5.0 185 <![CDATA[

Never picked up on his dream the end implying they rewired Alex back to his natural state.

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Menus 356a43 Plaisirs, les Troisgros, 2023 - ★★★★★ https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/mr_lamp/film/menus-plaisirs-les-troisgros/ letterboxd-review-897727300 Mon, 26 May 2025 00:32:53 +1200 2025-05-25 No Menus-Plaisirs, les Troisgros 2023 5.0 1077050 <![CDATA[

Something in here about legacy, generativity, and procreation along side the usual Wiseman preoccupations.

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Angst 1i3q39 1983 - ★★★½ https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/mr_lamp/film/angst/ letterboxd-review-897722757 Mon, 26 May 2025 00:24:30 +1200 2025-05-24 No Angst 1983 3.5 18912 <![CDATA[

Fyodor Dostoevsky smashing into Jerry Lewis.

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Jack Wise 38142s Language of the Brush, 1998 - ★★★★★ https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/mr_lamp/film/jack-wise-language-of-the-brush/1/ letterboxd-watch-895413000 Fri, 23 May 2025 14:16:26 +1200 2025-05-22 Yes Jack Wise: Language of the Brush 1998 5.0 1466196 <![CDATA[

Watched on Thursday May 22, 2025.

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Jack Wise 38142s Language of the Brush, 1998 - ★★★★★ https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/mr_lamp/film/jack-wise-language-of-the-brush/ letterboxd-review-891424439 Sun, 18 May 2025 23:52:11 +1200 2025-05-18 No Jack Wise: Language of the Brush 1998 5.0 1466196 <![CDATA[

The Art Life…

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Free Solo 564e6n 2018 https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/mr_lamp/film/free-solo/ letterboxd-review-883927501 Sat, 10 May 2025 04:26:10 +1200 2025-05-09 No Free Solo 2018 515042 <![CDATA[

Free Solo outdoor gear freaks vs. cinephiles

Look up what the mom did after this film was made

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Nuts in May 3e4du 1976 (contains spoilers) https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/mr_lamp/film/nuts-in-may/ letterboxd-review-883925386 Sat, 10 May 2025 04:22:08 +1200 2025-05-09 No Nuts in May 1976 265640 <![CDATA[

This review may contain spoilers.

HUGE HOG at the end.

Leigh always good.

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True Stories 3p234m 1986 https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/mr_lamp/film/true-stories/ letterboxd-review-877817881 Sat, 3 May 2025 03:07:45 +1200 2025-05-02 No True Stories 1986 24798 <![CDATA[

Yes and no on this one. Resonates w Wiseman’s THE STORE in curious ways.

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Routine Pleasures 2f3lz 1986 https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/mr_lamp/film/routine-pleasures/ letterboxd-review-877816447 Sat, 3 May 2025 03:05:09 +1200 2025-05-02 No Routine Pleasures 1986 84672 <![CDATA[

A delightful way to spend a morning.

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The Shrouds 152712 2024 - ★★★★½ https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/mr_lamp/film/the-shrouds/ letterboxd-review-875090881 Tue, 29 Apr 2025 13:00:42 +1200 2025-04-28 No The Shrouds 2024 4.5 970947 <![CDATA[

A taxonomy of strategies to defend against grief. Keep your eye on the dogs and the eating. I think Cronenberg is an heir to Bunuel in his capacity to render dream texture to the everyday so that you almost don’t notice it. The sound of those Tesla doors closing and bones cracking. The moment w the blind woman touching his face was so tender.

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Vengeance Is Mine 423i2i 1984 - ★★★★★ https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/mr_lamp/film/vengeance-is-mine-1984/1/ letterboxd-review-875082508 Tue, 29 Apr 2025 12:45:48 +1200 2025-04-28 Yes Vengeance Is Mine 1984 5.0 461788 <![CDATA[

Rewarding to rewatch.

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Pilgrim 60401h Farewell, 1980 - ★★★★★ https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/mr_lamp/film/pilgrim-farewell/ letterboxd-review-875081915 Tue, 29 Apr 2025 12:44:40 +1200 2025-04-28 No Pilgrim, Farewell 1980 5.0 461644 <![CDATA[

Fucking masterpiece. The closer to death, the more bifurcated human desire becomes. Every scene is pure gold. Every emotional payoff is well earned. Pastoral Vermont adds to the ache ringing through the whole film. Also- Satie used to great effect here.

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Deaf 555fw 1986 - ★★★★★ https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/mr_lamp/film/deaf/ letterboxd-review-875076558 Tue, 29 Apr 2025 12:36:21 +1200 2025-04-28 No Deaf 1986 5.0 114426 <![CDATA[

So moving and yet again wiseman demonstrates how people inured to their institutional roles can become the instruments of soul erasure. No easy answers as always. Life, unadorned…

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New York Minute 2x6r4o 2004 https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/mr_lamp/film/new-york-minute/ letterboxd-review-874421502 Mon, 28 Apr 2025 15:20:13 +1200 2025-04-27 No New York Minute 2004 11025 <![CDATA[

So much shame…

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The Killing of a Sacred Deer 2ja1f 2017 https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/mr_lamp/film/the-killing-of-a-sacred-deer/ letterboxd-review-871604344 Fri, 25 Apr 2025 16:14:06 +1200 2025-04-24 No The Killing of a Sacred Deer 2017 399057 <![CDATA[

“Every movie is a Christmas movie” - HG

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The Blue Planet 3v5q2j 1982 - ★★★★ https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/mr_lamp/film/the-blue-planet-1982/ letterboxd-review-867437053 Mon, 21 Apr 2025 03:38:21 +1200 2025-04-20 No The Blue Planet 1982 4.0 96300 <![CDATA[

When human emotions and dreams are contextualized with the rest of nature without privileging them they are rendered strange/uncanny. It s clear why Tarkovsky loved it….

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Public Housing 4s1c28 1997 - ★★★★★ https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/mr_lamp/film/public-housing/ letterboxd-review-865494836 Sat, 19 Apr 2025 07:36:16 +1200 2025-04-18 No Public Housing 1997 5.0 114412 <![CDATA[

Outstanding…

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The Thin Red Line 5s2e6h 1998 - ★★★★★ https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/mr_lamp/film/the-thin-red-line/ letterboxd-review-865493454 Sat, 19 Apr 2025 07:34:51 +1200 2025-04-18 Yes The Thin Red Line 1998 5.0 8741 <![CDATA[

Easter tradition. This film can stir me every time.  The extreme nature of war allows Malicks preoccupations the most raw and breathable treatment than any of his other films. I suppose that’s what I can say about it- it’s a film that breathes. Maybe it’s all the lush green. The best greens in the history of cinema in my opinion. We get access to TALL’s (Nolte) thoughts at the beginning but not at the end…devastating…I feel grateful I got to watch this film today.

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3 Women 1w2i4l 1977 - ★★★★★ https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/mr_lamp/film/3-women/1/ letterboxd-review-861911218 Mon, 14 Apr 2025 21:56:07 +1200 2025-04-14 Yes 3 Women 1977 5.0 41662 <![CDATA[

Land of the lost.

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Bridge of Spies 3r2g6s 2015 - ★★★ https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/mr_lamp/film/bridge-of-spies/ letterboxd-review-861404497 Mon, 14 Apr 2025 09:05:19 +1200 2025-04-13 No Bridge of Spies 2015 3.0 296098 <![CDATA[

The lighting choices in this film drove me nuts.  Spielbergs nostalgia has become blinding….

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Eephus 1j7036 2024 https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/mr_lamp/film/eephus/ letterboxd-review-854968738 Sun, 6 Apr 2025 15:03:10 +1200 2025-04-05 No Eephus 2024 1226777 <![CDATA[

Arrives at some real poetry by the end. When I walked out of the film I thought it was fall.

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Mirror 5t2s6m 1975 - ★★★★★ https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/mr_lamp/film/mirror/2/ letterboxd-review-854801950 Sun, 6 Apr 2025 11:45:37 +1200 2025-04-05 Yes Mirror 1975 5.0 1396 <![CDATA[

A treat to see on 35mm. The original subtitles were so busted I just focused on the images. The rendering of the essential impressions of one persons childhood guides us all back to our own and inevitably a question about the collective impressions we all have but are lost upon entering adulthood.

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Welfare 671ur 1975 - ★★★★★ https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/mr_lamp/film/welfare/ letterboxd-watch-850753997 Tue, 1 Apr 2025 08:48:13 +1300 2025-03-31 No Welfare 1975 5.0 90511 <![CDATA[

Watched on Monday March 31, 2025.

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Central Park 5p2h2u 1990 - ★★★★★ https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/mr_lamp/film/central-park-1990/ letterboxd-watch-850753724 Tue, 1 Apr 2025 08:47:48 +1300 2025-03-31 No Central Park 1990 5.0 71809 <![CDATA[

Watched on Monday March 31, 2025.

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Taken 3 23d1w 2014 https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/mr_lamp/film/taken-3/ letterboxd-review-850228104 Mon, 31 Mar 2025 15:35:44 +1300 2025-03-30 No Taken 3 2014 260346 <![CDATA[

Dada is beyond the LAW

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Taken 544u3a 2008 https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/mr_lamp/film/taken/ letterboxd-review-849515262 Mon, 31 Mar 2025 02:30:16 +1300 2025-03-30 No Taken 2008 8681 <![CDATA[

Dear ol dad…
(This one’s not about the failure of the father function but the catharsis it provides betrays how profoundly we’ve all been failed)

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The Gorge 3g2l39 2025 https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/mr_lamp/film/the-gorge-2025/ letterboxd-review-844459182 Mon, 24 Mar 2025 16:27:22 +1300 2025-03-23 No The Gorge 2025 950396 <![CDATA[

The Clinton Legacy

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The Trial 2l425o 1962 https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/mr_lamp/film/the-trial/1/ letterboxd-review-843660552 Mon, 24 Mar 2025 02:43:00 +1300 2025-03-23 Yes The Trial 1962 3009 <![CDATA[

Commentary w Jim McBride. Wonderful overview of all of Welles career from someone who knew and worked w him..

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The Trial 2l425o 1962 - ★★★★★ https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/mr_lamp/film/the-trial/ letterboxd-review-843659682 Mon, 24 Mar 2025 02:41:29 +1300 2025-03-23 No The Trial 1962 5.0 3009 <![CDATA[

Thoughts on Orson Welles:

I was shown The Lady from Shanghai in school and loved it but felt rage at my classmates for mocking it then shame that I did not defend it. Ultra-grotesque and sexy…what more do you want?

I still don’t understand Welles relationship to sound/dialogue. I can never hear what is being said. Maybe the images are just so overpowering even Shakespeare can’t compete. Not hearing what is being said is not a problem for me in most films but Welles obviously has a relationship and is trying to place his noises somewhere but I can’t ever find them.  I feel hopeless about Chimes at Midnight. 

I like paintings where there is little to no negative space. Why do I struggle with that in his films and editing? Welles is suffocating. So many ideas. He’s the most brilliant stylist but too emotionally overwhelming to connect to.

Watched this the same week as Wiseman’s WELFARE. One is truly Kafkaesque.

In spite of Welles intentions this film ends with the image of a mushroom cloud. Welles changed the ending from Kafka’s but it’s still haunted by something darker and less affirming than Welles intended.

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That Old Dream That Moves 441s5f 2001 https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/mr_lamp/film/that-old-dream-that-moves/ letterboxd-review-843649841 Mon, 24 Mar 2025 02:24:18 +1300 2025-03-23 No That Old Dream That Moves 2001 125844 <![CDATA[

If old abandoned factories are your thing…

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Kim's Video 3z406w 2023 https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/mr_lamp/film/kims-video/ letterboxd-review-838377994 Mon, 17 Mar 2025 14:15:55 +1300 2025-03-16 No Kim's Video 2023 1058673 <![CDATA[

Interesting to ponder the moment where Kim essentially says what’s done is done and has a moment of grief. You can see it flash on his face. Reminds me of Henry Rollins , years after SST stopped operations, just parking his car parking his car outside of SST headquarters and just sitting there everyone he was in town.


The experience of saying goodbye to the past could have been interrogated here but alas…we have this disturbing moment at the end where the simulacrum of Kim’s video returns (maybe like Frankensteins monster?) to burden us evermore as an embarrassing fetish object.

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Blind 74ry 1986 - ★★★★★ https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/mr_lamp/film/blind-1986/ letterboxd-review-836572091 Sun, 16 Mar 2025 01:57:31 +1300 2025-03-15 No Blind 1986 5.0 129682 <![CDATA[

Evokes and illuminates what we all experience in the process of learning. The dance at the end is one of the most life affirming sequences I’ve ever seen. Evokes Vigo’ ZERO FOR CONDUCT ending ecstasy.

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Model 42565b 1981 - ★★★★ https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/mr_lamp/film/model/ letterboxd-review-836566340 Sun, 16 Mar 2025 01:46:38 +1300 2025-03-15 No Model 1981 4.0 114403 <![CDATA[

Would you be surprised to learn Wiseman was really into Bunuel?

To have so much fun w the absurdity and still articulate a respect and curiosity about your subject(s) is master level filmmaking .

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The Hills Have Eyes 2g4n 1977 - ★★★ https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/mr_lamp/film/the-hills-have-eyes/ letterboxd-review-836563893 Sun, 16 Mar 2025 01:41:57 +1300 2025-03-15 No The Hills Have Eyes 1977 3.0 12262 <![CDATA[

I just kept thinking, when you’re working on such a small budget and likely difficult locations you might want to go back and rethink 2 dogs as main characters. 

I was in from the opening images but I don’t think the elements at hand were exploited effectively. Probably because they were dealing w the DOGS….

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China Girl 5bi3f 1987 - ★★★½ https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/mr_lamp/film/china-girl-1987/ letterboxd-review-830363411 Sun, 9 Mar 2025 07:13:25 +1300 2025-03-08 No China Girl 1987 3.5 47212 <![CDATA[

Ferrara keeps things on balance. He respects every character and executes from the heart.

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Emilia Pérez 1j2e57 2024 https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/mr_lamp/film/emilia-perez/ letterboxd-review-829904937 Sat, 8 Mar 2025 17:48:34 +1300 2025-03-07 No Emilia Pérez 2024 974950 <![CDATA[

Might be a long shot but it feels like this Frenchman is working out some WW2/Holocaust stuff. I might just be trying to justify the pain I’m in after watching this. I dunno. Bad…

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Starr Farm 464s4u 2016 https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/mr_lamp/film/starr-farm/ letterboxd-review-829614613 Sat, 8 Mar 2025 12:08:33 +1300 2025-03-07 No Starr Farm 2016 471437 <![CDATA[

Everyone should make a document of their childhood summer haunts like this.

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The Captive 3i6t1b 2000 - ★★★½ https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/mr_lamp/film/the-captive/ letterboxd-review-826170305 Tue, 4 Mar 2025 13:25:58 +1300 2025-03-03 No The Captive 2000 3.5 47244 <![CDATA[

Watched post VERTIGO.  The last image delivers on the paranoid repetition leading up to it. A shivering, shriveled peen alone at sea forever.

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Christmas 5r2mi Every Day, 2024 https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/mr_lamp/film/christmas-every-day-2024/ letterboxd-review-822670822 Sat, 1 Mar 2025 06:12:05 +1300 2025-02-28 No Christmas, Every Day 2024 1242712 <![CDATA[

Whoopsie…

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