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Favorite films

  • Jurassic Park
  • Network
  • Doctor Zhivago
  • Where Is the Friend's House?

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  • Joker: Folie à Deux

  • A Special Day

    ★★★★★

  • All That Jazz

    ★★★★★

  • Julius Caesar

    ★★★★★

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Joker: Folie à Deux

2024

Watched

This kept building to several “ohmygod, something amazing’s gonna happen!” moments, and then blocking itself. 
Was that the point?
I don’t know what the intention of this film was, and whether it’s one that- academically- nails it with the whole “you weren’t meant to idolise this guy last time.” If that’s the target. Is it?
I don’t know!

Were the song and dance number meant to be disappointing? They could have gone completely left field and wild, considering whose fantasies…

A Special Day

1977

★★★★★ Liked Watched

Two of the sexiest icons ever on screen playing dowdy and downtrodden is the sexiest thing they’ve ever done. 
This film is ferociously well made. The balance between the outside world and the apartment is sublime, and Loren and Mastroianni dance around each other so delicately, with the camera in perfect sync. 
Scola’s direction is so masterful, but deceptively so: he makes sure your attention is off him and only on the two central performances.
Heaven. I cried, obvs.

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All That Jazz

1979

★★★★★ Liked Watched

When I die, my heaven will be a rehearsal room with Bob Fosse’s Roy Scheider Bob Fosse screwing me over then giving me that look, on repeat, for the rest of time. 

This is a deeply satisfying film to watch. I wish Fosse had directed more than his handful of films, and that more people acknowledge how integral Scheider was to 70s cinema.

Longlegs

2024

Liked Watched

Nic Cage is the most consistently exciting actor in modern American cinema. Discuss.

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