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One of the most striking and unsettling threads in this, especially the first few episodes, is the way that people will hold onto whatever vestiges of normalcy they can as their world breaks down around them. “The Morgans are coming for dinner.”

Watched on Friday June 6, 2025.

I suppose I’m moved by this absurd performance.

Realized today that this year makes ten since he died. Every time I it feels like I’m hearing the news for the first time - I really don’t think any public figure’s death and subsequent absence from the world has hit me as hard. Maybe David Lynch, but other than that there’s no one.

Terry Pratchett is easily the writer who has impacted me the most - discovering his work in middle school was like opening a door to a parallel world in which there were other people who thought and felt and joked like I did.

My first read-throughs Hogfather and Reaper Man and Night Watch were all paradigm-altering experiences, The Shepherd’s Crown is such a gift even if it’s inherently steeped in melancholy, Monstrous Regiment is both one of the most comionate and most venomous books ever written. I could go on- everything that he wrote is an intrinsic part of my being.

He had such a clear-eyed vision of the world and the way that people work, and it makes me unbearably sad that I’ll never get to thank him for helping me understand the world in which I live and the people who inhabit it.

I also cannot fucking believe that watching this is so irreparably tainted by the fact that Neil Gaiman is in like half of it. Total whiplash to see one of the most evil people in the writing sphere eulogizing a man who was, by all s, one of the kindest. I wish him the worst and then some.

Just unbelievable. Kind of the perfect big studio action movie despite having the least action of any M:I since the first one. I like these best when they get to be real spies or when there’s some ridiculous macro-scale narrative nonsense going on and this has both in spades.

A complete mess but it’s the kind of mess that I like.

Conner O’Malley is the greatest American screen icon since Yoda

Incredible to think that there was a point where they were trying to replace Crusie with Jeremy Renner. Hayley Atwell should be in every movie.

Watched on Saturday May 17, 2025.

One of the funniest and most romantic things ever made, and also utterly devastating. The glimpses of humanity make the slaughterhouse more gruesome.

Astronomically difficult to articulate what is so beautiful and transcendent about this movie (which is why I will be devoting months if not years to doing so) but it is undoubtedly one of the most special and wonderful things ever made by human beings. It makes me feel so many things. Its earnestness is almost heartbreaking and its absurdity is funnier than almost anything else ever made.

The music is also just unbelievable- the soundtrack CD included with the Criterion disc is one of the best releases in Byrne’s entire catalogue, incredibly diverse but consistently amazing. “Freeway Son,” the John Ingle vocal version of “Puzzlin’ Evidence,” and the multi-part six-minute track “Mall Muzak” are standouts.

Putting Robert F Kennedy Jr in the Clockwork Orange machine and forcing him to watch this on repeat

great movie about people entering various evil rooms full of Guys and Vile Ooze

Finally obtained this on DVD thanks to America’s finest small business DVD-R Party Dot Com. The special features are amazing, this is one of the greatest multimedia projects of the century. It’s an absolute miracle that this exists. Things that made me laugh the hardest this time around was the fake Seinfeld bass line in the part of episode 3 where Dr Rick Dagless MD is trying to sneak around the hospital and the moment where Dr Sanchez says “I’ll phone Reed,” picks up the phone, and says “get me Reed.”

Watched on Monday April 28, 2025.

Watched on Wednesday April 30, 2025.

Watched on Wednesday April 30, 2025.

First half hour of this is genuinely terrible, feels like it was edited at random by a dim child, but once it gets going it’s kind of the best thing ever. Anakin reminds me of my insolent cousin who works at PetCo. I forgot Jar Jar doesn’t speak a single time in this one. Yoda is one of the best guys in movies. John Williams went insane on this one. Despite everything about Star Wars, I do indeed still love Star Wars.

it looks and sounds so so awesome

this is movies

everyone should have the opportunity to see this in a cinema with the Bros fan club

how did they do it

I hope that real aliens wouldn’t be like this. It would be way cooler and less scary if they were like Yoda.

Watched on Tuesday April 22, 2025.

changed my fucking life

There Existed An Addiction to Blood

It’s a horror movie but more importantly it’s a movie about how music is the sexiest and most powerful thing in the world

Watched on Saturday April 19, 2025.

Watched on Saturday April 12, 2025.

out of all those kinds of people, you got a face with a view
I’m just an animal looking for a home and
share the same space for a minute or two

Feeling insane today. This fits the vibe. It fits every vibe. I cheered in my living room like it was a live concert when they started Burning Down the House. The most purely euphoric movie of all time. WAIT A MINUTE! EVERYBODY! GET IN LINE!

derivative of both Stop Making Sense and The Last Waltz in a myriad of fascinating ways. Maybe my favorite live album ever released — The Name of This Band is Talking Heads might be better, but there are few things as moving as this rendition of "Home" or as raucous as "Jump Into the Fire" or "Movement." Struck this time by the shots of the exhausted concertgoers breaking into ecstatic smiles as the synth noise after "Yeah" resolves into "Someone Great."

my god

guys we’re so hexed

I have been feeling very bad and terrible about a lot of things recently so I decided to watch this. Made me think a lot about that James Baldwin quote where he says that art is valuable because it provides companionship to the depressed. This is probably the funniest movie that also makes me feel very very sad. Didn't necessarily lighten my mood but it helped me come to with it. I picked the wrong time to get born indeed.

Watched on Wednesday April 9, 2025.

play that funky music white boy

"you picked the wrong time to get born"

Watched on Tuesday April 8, 2025.

Watched on Monday April 7, 2025.

Watched on Monday April 7, 2025.

chicken jockey

this is bullshit I don’t any of this from the Minecraft combat handbook I bought at the Scholastic book fair in 2013

My friends made this movie and I am in it for three seconds

Nothing else comes close, really

probably the best music film of all time

Watched on Tuesday April 1, 2025.

imagine if I gave this one star for April Fools. wouldn't that be freaking crazy

There’s a difference between ambiguous and noncommittal that this doesn’t fully articulate

Watched on Thursday March 27, 2025.

Watched on Wednesday March 26, 2025.

• Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World
• Being John Smith
• Band of Outsiders
• A Corner in Wheat
• Rebecca
• La Chimera
• The Brutalist
• Contempt
• Written on the Wind
• Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn

...plus 9 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Sinners
2. The Phoenician Scheme
3. Black Bag
4. Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning
5. Mickey 17
6. Friendship
7. Ballerina
8. A Minecraft Movie
9. Companion

• Adaptation.
• Rebecca
• The Brutalist
• Parasite

  IMAX

• Burning
• Psycho
• Contempt
• Moonlight
• Tongues Untied
• Roman Holiday

...plus 23 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Features and significant shorts.

"Inevitably, critics who regard works of art as statements will be wary of 'style,' even as they pay lip service to 'imagination.' All that imagination really means for them, anyway, is the supersensitive rendering of 'reality.' It is this 'reality' snared by the work of art that they continue to focus on, rather than on the extent to which a work of art engages the mind in certain transformations. But when the metaphor of the work of art as a statement loses its authority, the ambivalence toward 'style' should dissolve; for this ambivalence mirrors the presumed tension between the statement and the manner in which it is stated."- Susan Sontag

1. The Royal Tenenbaums
2. The Swan
3. Asteroid City
4. The French Dispatch
5. The Grand Budapest Hotel
6. The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
7. Fantastic Mr. Fox
8. The Darjeeling Limited
9. The Phoenician Scheme
10. The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar

...plus 8 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Mission: Impossible
2. Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation
3. Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol
4. Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning
5. Mission: Impossible – Fallout
6. Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning
7. Mission: Impossible II
8. Mission: Impossible III

Criterion Collection: www.criterion.com/collection/626515

• WALL·E

  DVD
  Criterion Collection 1161 (4K)

• The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

  5- Disc Extended edition. Part of box set.

• The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

  See above

• The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

  Above

• Solo: A Star Wars Story

  4K UHD Collector’s Box Set

• Avengers: Endgame

  Cinematic Universe Ed. (whatever that means)
  4K UHD

• Dunkirk

  DVD + BD

• Parasite

  Criterion 1054

• Star Wars

  2011 version

• The Empire Strikes Back

  2011 version

...plus 285 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Star Wars
2. Star Wars: The Last Jedi
3. The Empire Strikes Back
4. Return of the Jedi
5. Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace
6. Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
7. Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith
8. Solo: A Star Wars Story
9. Star Wars: The Force Awakens
10. LEGO Star Wars Holiday Special

...plus 7 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Nickel Boys
2. Challengers
3. I Saw the TV Glow
4. Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World
5. Being John Smith
6. The Beast
7. La Chimera
8. Anora
9. Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
10. Rap World

...plus 27 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Ocean's Eleven
2. Logan Lucky
3. Ocean's Thirteen
4. No Sudden Move
5. Ocean's Twelve
6. Black Bag
7. The Limey

1. Memories of Murder
2. Parasite
3. The Host
4. Mickey 17
5. Snowpiercer

1. The Insider
2. Miami Vice
3. Ferrari
4. Collateral
5. Heat
6. Thief

Favorites:
Film 3570- 35 Shots of Rum, Singin' in the Rain, Do the Right Thing
Genres: The Essay Film 4500- Tongues Untied, F For Fake, Grizzly Man, The Gleaners and I
Theory and Criticism 4510: Bamboozled, Modern Times, Dimensions of Dialogue
Intro to World Cinema 2540: Bicycle Thieves, The World
Sexuality & Cinema: The Pervert's Guide to Cinema, Audition, Pink Flamingos
Cinema & Politics: The Zone of Interest, Jeanne Dielman

1. 35 Shots of Rum
2. Singin' in the Rain
3. Tongues Untied
4. F for Fake
5. Bamboozled
6. Do the Right Thing
7. Three Colours: Red
8. Meshes of the Afternoon
9. Dimensions of Dialogue
10. Battleship Potemkin

...plus 67 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Alphaville
2. Band of Outsiders
3. Contempt
4. Weekend
5. Pierrot le Fou
6. Masculin Féminin
7. Breathless

“I am dead, yet I live”

“I fear the possibility that love is not enough”

“Don't worry about the darkness. Turn on the light and the darkness automatically goes.”

1. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
2. Twin Peaks: The Return
3. Twin Peaks
4. David Lynch Cooks Quinoa
5. Mulholland Drive
6. Premonitions Following an Evil Deed
7. WHAT DID JACK DO?
8. Eraserhead
9. The Alphabet
10. Blue Velvet

...plus 5 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

I think they’re bad

• Triumph of the Will
• Music
• Deadpool & Wolverine
• Lean On Me
• Jojo Rabbit
• Bohemian Rhapsody
• The Wave
• The Great Beauty
• Promising Young Woman
• Saltburn

...plus 2 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Ferrari
• Mean Girls
• The Boy and the Heron
• Anatomy of a Fall
• Stop Making Sense
• Dune
• Drive-Away Dolls
• Tenet

  IMAX

• Dune: Part Two

  Twice, once in IMAX

• Little Women

...plus 38 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Interstellar
2. The Prestige
3. Tenet
4. Oppenheimer
5. Memento
6. Dunkirk
7. Inception
8. The Dark Knight
9. Insomnia
10. Following

...plus 2 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Twilight
• Flushed Away
• Bee Movie
• The Menu
• Wicked

• Cuties
• Inside Deep Throat
• Wetlands
• Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!
• Pink Flamingos
• Teeth
• I Spit on Your Grave
• Foxy Brown
• Hedwig and the Angry Inch
• Audition

...plus 5 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Twin Peaks: The Return
2. The ion of Joan of Arc
3. I'm Not There
4. Bamboozled
5. Challengers
6. I Saw the TV Glow
7. Black Country, New Road - “Live at Bush Hall”
8. Dont Look Back
9. May December
10. The Thing

...plus 112 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Twilight

1. News from Home
2. Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles

1. Unbreakable
2. Knock at the Cabin
3. Signs
4. Split
5. The Sixth Sense
6. Trap
7. Glass
8. The Happening
9. The Last Airbender

1. The Fabelmans
2. The French Dispatch
3. May December
4. Asteroid City
5. Nope
6. I Saw the TV Glow
7. TÁR
8. The Zone of Interest
9. Oppenheimer
10. Tenet

...plus 2 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. The Banshees of Inisherin
2. In Bruges
3. Seven Psychopaths

1. The Godfather
2. Apocalypse Now
3. The Godfather Part II
4. Megalopolis
5. The Conversation
6. Captain EO
7. Jack

1. Avatar: The Way of Water
2. Aliens
3. Avatar

20s- 1
40s- 1
50s- 4
60s- 5
70s- 7
80s- 2
90s- 3
00s- 8
10s- 7
20s- 7

directors with multiple films on the list:
Christopher Nolan (3)
Ingmar Bergman (2)
Orson Welles (2)
Wes Anderson (2)
David Lynch (2)
Steven Spielberg (2)

• 35 Shots of Rum
• Alien
• All the President's Men
• Alphaville
• Annihilation
• The Bad Sleep Well
• The Banshees of Inisherin
• Citizen Kane
• Cléo from 5 to 7
• Day for Night

...plus 35 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• A Trip to the Moon
• Battleship Potemkin
• The Great Dictator
• I Am Not Your Negro
• Inequality for All
• Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
• Parasite
• Platoon
• Son of Saul
• Triumph of the Will

...plus 4 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
2. Iron Man 3
3. Iron Man
4. Captain America: The First Avenger
5. The Avengers
6. Guardians of the Galaxy
7. Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
8. Doctor Strange
9. Spider-Man: Homecoming
10. Black Panther

...plus 23 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Parasite
2. Portrait of a Lady on Fire
3. Little Women
4. The Farewell
5. The Lighthouse
6. Knives Out
7. Glass
8. 1917
9. Ad Astra
10. Ford v Ferrari

...plus 20 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Oppenheimer

   Best directing of 2023
   Best lead performance of 2023 (Murphy)
   Best editing of 2023

2. The Swan

   Best live-action short film of 2023

3. The Zone of Interest

   Best sound of 2023
   Best adapted screenplay of 2023

4. Asteroid City

   Best production design of 2023
   Second best ing performance of 2023 (Wright)
   Best original song of 2023 (Dear Alien)

5. Killers of the Flower Moon

   Best lead performance of 2023 (Gladstone)
   Third best ing performance of 2023 (Myers)
   Best cinematography of 2023

6. The Boy and the Heron

   Best animated film of 2023
   Best score of 2023

7. May December

   Best ing performance of 2023 (Melton)
   Second best ing performance of 2023 (Moore)
   Best original screenplay of 2023

8. Ferrari

   Best ing performance of 2023 (Cruz)

9. Knock at the Cabin
10. The Killer

    Best visual effects of 2023

...plus 19 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Spirited Away
2. The Boy and the Heron
3. Princess Mononoke
4. My Neighbor Totoro
5. Ponyo

1. WALL·E
2. The Royal Tenenbaums
3. 35 Shots of Rum
4. I'm Not There
5. Ocean's Eleven
6. Southland Tales
7. Miami Vice
8. Offside
9. Marie Antoinette
10. Memories of Murder

1. Twin Peaks: The Return
2. A Separation
3. The Social Network
4. Phantom Thread
5. Little Women
6. Thunder Road
7. Parasite
8. Annihilation
9. Thoroughbreds
10. Whiplash

1. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
2. La Haine
3. Dazed and Confused
4. Romeo + Juliet
5. Strange Days
6. Malcolm X
7. Three Colours: Red
8. Chungking Express
9. The Muppet Christmas Carol
10. Heat

1. Stop Making Sense
2. True Stories
3. Do the Right Thing
4. Tongues Untied
5. Raging Bull
6. Raiders of the Lost Ark
7. Blood Simple
8. Chameleon Street
9. The Shining
10. Heathers

1. F for Fake
2. Day for Night
3. Star Wars
4. All the President's Men
5. Network
6. Dog Day Afternoon
7. House
8. News from Home
9. The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
10. Jaws

1. Singin' in the Rain
2. Roman Holiday
3. The Seventh Seal
4. Sunset Boulevard
5. 12 Angry Men
6. Elevator to the Gallows
7. Seven Samurai
8. Throne of Blood
9. The 400 Blows
10. The Killing

1. M
2. Modern Times
3. The Rules of the Game
4. The 39 Steps

boring list

1. Citizen Kane
2. Meshes of the Afternoon
3. It's a Wonderful Life
4. The Third Man
5. His Girl Friday
6. Brief Encounter
7. Casablanca
8. Bicycle Thieves
9. The Lady from Shanghai
10. Detour

1. Persona
2. Z
3. 2001: A Space Odyssey
4. Alphaville
5. Cléo from 5 to 7
6. La Jetée
7. Seconds
8. Psycho
9. The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
10. Charade

1. Offside
2. Taxi

1. The Zone of Interest
2. Sexy Beast

1. Inglourious Basterds
2. Reservoir Dogs
3. Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
4. Pulp Fiction
5. Django Unchained

• Persona
• True Stories
• TRON: Legacy
• Metropolis
• 2001: A Space Odyssey
• Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
• La Haine
• Southland Tales
• Z
• House

...plus 2 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
2. The Revenant
3. Amores Perros

1. I'm Not There
2. May December

1. Modern Times
2. City Lights
3. The Floorwalker
4. A Day's Pleasure

1. M
2. Metropolis
3. Ministry of Fear