Jac Renée Bruneau

screenwriter, script consultant, film programmer

Favorite films

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  • The Gods of Times Square

  • L'Amour

  • Hot Ticket

  • Atlantic is a Sea of Bones

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Taxi Driver

1976

★★★★ Watched

an inspiring one to watch in the days following the assassination of united healthcare ceo

Wolf's Hole

1987

★★★ Watched

animal farm but egged on by self-identified immortal extraterrestrials.

loved how scared everyone was of the spazzy snow angel-ing (and how concretely it was regarded as proof of these characters' alienness).

on horror: a script like this wouldn't fly today... a sense of threat is omnipresent, yes, though i'd say to its own detriment; sources of fear arise as randomly as popcorn, which makes for novel pacing but not one that accumulates with much heft.

great to throw on in the background during xmas with the fam, tho ;)

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Stranger Eyes

2024

★★ Watched

squarely a drama, not a thriller. perhaps my initial interpretations about the premise (ie., that it was) set me up for disappointment but in any case, i found this utterly bloated and dull.

the biggest flop (which is also perhaps what a fellow viewer was referring to on their way out when they called the film "challenging") was the choice to extend the runtime 50 mins more after the story's central problem (the missing baby) is solved. this section --…

Megalopolis

2024

½ Watched

wouldn't wish this on my worst enemy

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