Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  The Shout 1978

  Watched 20 Jan 2023 1

  Extremely inventive visual style, extremely cliche film.

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  King Lear 1987

  Watched 16 Dec 2022

  It’s got all of Godard’s usual good stuff—dense aphoristic monologues, mystifying structural experiments, thrilling moments of meaning only he could find—but then you also get him going full slapstick and doing-an-adaptation-by-trolling-the-concept-of-adaptations. Ridiculous.

Popular reviews

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  India Song 1975

  Watched 13 Nov 2022

  Fascinating and exciting formal choice to make the narration essentially an oral history, elliptically telling the story which Duras evokes visually in her distinctively haunted, decaying, fragmentary fashion.

  Duras's novels are brilliant but must say, I've been avoiding her film work because I have no love for Hiroshima mon amour, a film I find deeply aggravating and uninteresting. So very pleased to say that here it is a thing of wonder to see her find such a perfect way to combine a visual method with her literary sensibilities.

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  The Round-Up 1966

  Watched 14 Dec 2022

  I'd guess 90% of this film's dialogue is lies, and 95% betrayals.