Peter Williams Pro

My Top 4 are just the last four movies I rated five stars. My actual favourite movie of all time is Persona.

Favorite films

  • It's Such a Beautiful Day
  • Hundreds of Beavers
  • Son of the White Mare
  • The Great Escape

All
  • The Virgin Spring

    ★★★★

  • Wild Strawberries

    ★★★★★

  • The Plague Dogs

    ★★★★½

  • The Animatrix

    ★★★½

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Loving Vincent

2017

Watched

The investigation in this movie is like watching someone investigate why an eighty-year-old chain smoker had a heart attack. That seems pretty fishy; we'd better go talk to literally every person he ever knew to unravel this mystery.

It's insulting to Vincent van Gogh to baselessly insinuate things about his life like this and it's insulting to the audience to expect us to even entertain this ridiculous murder conspiracy theory.

Mostly, this is just so boring, though. Oh my god, this movie is so damn boring.

Son of the White Mare

1981

★★★★★ Watched

Where has this been all my life? I am overwhelmed by a feeling of love for the art form of animation and filmmaking more broadly. I cannot put into words how happy this film has made me.

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Longlegs

2024

★½ Watched

This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

Don't Torture a Duckling

1972

★★★★ Watched

Hooptober 11 #32

Having heard that this was a giallo film (and pretty much nothing else) I was expecting it to be gruesomely fun like the other movies from the genre. Instead, though, I was treated to a film that wallows in the ugliness of violence. This movie is deeply upsetting, showing the darkness of human nature, not just in the killer but the world surrounding them as well. We get an incredibly derisive depiction of conservative Italy. The killer's…