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The Unfindables

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At a time when it seems like nearly everything can be found online if you look hard enough, these are…

  • Henry Fool
  • Synecdoche, New York
  • The Golden Boat
  • A Zed & Two Noughts
  • What Happened Was...

This is the day of the expanding list

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Top 200. No director limit. No real order after, maybe, the top ten, but roughly every 40 or so films…

  • Actors
  • The All Golden
  • All Jacked Up and Full of Worms
  • Assholes
  • Brutalist Couture

Mumble-B

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A term coined by Shae Sennett in her essay "Loud, Shocking, Witty, and Whiny" which appears in the most recent…

  • Alexander Nevsky
  • Anchoress
  • Andrei Rublev
  • Ashik Kerib
  • Atarrabi & Mikelats

Notes Toward a Neo-Medieval Aesthetic

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Hereby coining one of my favorite micro-genres, which I previously (incorrectly?) dubbed "Neo-Baroque", although I think in some of these…

  • After Blue (Dirty Paradise)
  • Trees
  • Aleph
  • All the Light We Can See
  • All You Can Eat Buddha

Notes Toward a New Fabulism

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A very provisional attempt to curate the (intentionally) loosely-defined parameters of what I see as an emerging positive trend in…

  • A Zed & Two Noughts
  • Drowning by Numbers
  • The Belly of an Architect
  • 8 ½ Women
  • The Draughtsman's Contract

Greenaway By Numbers

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Peter Greenaway Ranked.

Cinematic genius or pompous windbag? Probably both.

Reminds me I should probably watch Darwin.

Bonus: How to…

  • The Royal Tenenbaums
  • The French Dispatch
  • Rushmore
  • The Grand Budapest Hotel
  • The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Three More

Peter Tweenaway

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Wes Anderson's Filmography Ranked.

No I'm not including the ments he's made even though they're on Letterboxd for some reason...

  • The Center of the World
  • Cosmopolis
  • Boarding Gate
  • Demonlover
  • New Rose Hotel

Post-Cinematic Affect/Technological Lyricism

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Films that capture a specific distinctive feeling of our postmodern, neoliberal economic era. Or, "what it feels like to live…

  • Angel City
  • The Aviator's Wife
  • The Big Lebowski
  • Blow-Up
  • Blue Dream

Apophenic Adventures

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ap·​o·​phe·​nia | \ ˌa-pə-ˈfē-nē-ə \ : the tendency to perceive a connection or meaningful pattern between unrelated or random things…

  • House of Tolerance
  • The Beast
  • Nocturama
  • Saint Laurent
  • On War

Bertrand Bonello: An Aesthete for Our Times

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"The more you engage with Bonello’s swirl of abstract unease and close-in observation, the more that tension is defined as…

  • Sweetie
  • Two Friends
  • An Angel at My Table
  • ionless Moments
  • In the Cut
  • I Hired a Contract Killer
  • Fallen Leaves
  • Shadows in Paradise
  • Ariel
  • Lights in the Dusk

"I prefer dogs. They are honest and they don't lie": Aki Kaurismäki Ranked

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One of my favorite directors who I rarely seem to talk about.

Expressionless men with greasy hair and leather jackets…