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Favorite films

  • August in the Water
  • Green Snake
  • Youth Without Youth
  • The Young Girls of Rochefort

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  • The Iron Claw

  • Black Bag

  • The Two Popes

  • Kung Fu Hustle

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Sparrow

2008

★★★★★ Liked Watched

every major johnnie to film leaves me with the feeling of: will something ever take me this high again? this elation, this pure sense of joy. i tear up as i write this, grateful for the privilege to see something so beautiful. what the medium was meant for.

Scott Pilgrim vs. the World

2010

Liked Rewatched

not sure what compelled me to rewatch this film this weekend. maybe it was northernlion sparking a light when he said millennials were the only good generation a month or so ago. that spark led me to spend the last two weeks listening to aim and ignite while playing civilization 7. spent last night watching flight of the conchord clips on youtube. i suppose i'm reconciling myself with my millennial past as i turn thirty this year. i still love…

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Alice

1988

★★★★★ Liked 1

the description for this film on letterboxd is utterly horrible; this is no nightmare, and our alice here definitely does not act like it is one. this is perhaps the best adaptation possible for the material because it privileges alice above all else: she creates the world, and it reflects only the world she has known. she speaks for the characters she has created and she participates in her dream as her own wanderer. i found the sequence where the…

Ghost in the Shell

2017

½ 19

so are we just going to ignore the fact that a japanese woman was kidnapped and turned into a caucasian robot?

this might be the most sinister film i've ever seen in my life.