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Favorite films

  • The Thing
  • The Straight Story
  • The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
  • The Shawshank Redemption

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  • Arachnophobia

    ★★★

  • The Vanishing

    ★★★★★

  • The Hidden

    ★★★½

  • Room 237

    ★

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The Vanishing

1988

★★★★★ Liked Watched

A sense of foreboding you don't anticipate combined with a normalized sense of morbid fascination is what makes this an absolutely powerful psychological drama.

The performance by Bernard Pierre Donnadieu is such tremendous asset to this film's already absorbing direction and not least to say the other actors that deliver truly realistic portrayals.

This film's execution of grief and obsession for both the lead characters is of such a stark difference yet of such a colliding fate with one another…

Mary and Max

2009

★★★★★ Liked Watched

So I watched this and Memoir of a Snail back to back and I gotta say... what a beautiful counterpart they both make. I will say however that Mary and Max. is my favorite.

Such a beautifully marked piece of stop-motion with such a refreshing style and tone, penned by enlightening (albeit humorously offbeat) writing and absorbing voice performances by Philip Seymour Hoffman and Toni Collette respectively.

This touches on a lot of themes I didn't expect to mull over…

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American Splendor

2003

★★★★★ Liked Watched

What a wonderfully gloomy (very, very gloomy) character study about an artist who just can't be happy anchored by a soupy Paul Giamatti performance. Granted all the actors delivered colorful performances.

I loved the art style, the music and the interludes of the actual people voicing the opinions of the events, interactions and dynamics of one another. Everything about the film was perfect an a completely unambitious manner.

I couldn't help but be endeared, charmed and amused by the quirky (albeit deeply miserable) perspective of Harvey Pekar and the way his life moseyed along.

The Witch

2015

★★★★½ Liked Watched

God, this is by far one of the greatest modern horror films. Robert Eggers delivers such a dread-inducing, creepy and insidious period folk-tale brought together with top-notch filmmaking, dialogue and acting. Couldn't ask for anymore out of a horror film, and though The Lighthouse is still my favorite film, this film deserves all it's praises and accolades. Can't wait for his Nosferatu. Glad I rewatched this film in preparation.

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