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🔥🔥Telluride Film Festival 2023🔥🔥

17 films

Taking a break from book research to enjoy a long weekend full of movies, rushing rivers, epic mountains, and lush,…

  • The Lobster
  • The Killing of a Sacred Deer
  • Poor Things
  • Dogtooth
  • Alps

Yorgos Lanthimos

8 films

Farcical allegories. Stilted dialogue. Weird sex stuff. Absurdist idiosyncrasies. Dark brand of surrealist humor. What else is there to say…

  • Hereditary
  • Midsommar
  • Beau Is Afraid

Ari Aster

3 films

Aster understands raw, unrelenting, visceral horror. Whether he's tackling grief, depression, the occult, demonology, pagan ceremony, or toxic relationships, he…

  • Two Days, One Night
  • The Child
  • Rosetta
  • Tori and Lokita
  • The Son

The Dardenne Brothers

11 films

No one captures the ethical difficulty of the working class struggle better than the Dardenne brothers. 

They’re slowly becoming some…

  • A Still Small Voice
  • Infinity Pool
  • Eileen
  • Passages
  • Drift

🔥🔥Sundance 2023🔥🔥

36 films

This will be my 22nd Sundance Film Festival since first attending in 2001. My, how the landscape has changed. I…

  • Close-Up
  • Certified Copy
  • The Traveler
  • Taste of Cherry
  • Where Is the Friend's House?

Abbas Kiarostami

23 films

Godard once said: "Film begins with DW Griffith and ends with Abbas Kiarostami." 

Scorsese followed: "Kiarostami represents the highest level…

  • An Inn in Tokyo
  • Tokyo Story
  • Equinox Flower
  • The Only Son
  • Late Spring

Yasujirō Ozu

36 films

After climbing Mt. Ozu for the last 3 months I finally reached the summit, and I gotta say, the views…

  • RRR
  • The Banshees of Inisherin
  • Speak No Evil
  • Petite Maman
  • Crimes of the Future

Best Films of 2022

20 films

Another great year in cinema 😎

7 titles from Sundance 🔥🔥🔥

  • Star Wars: The Last Jedi
  • Looper
  • Knives Out
  • Glass Onion
  • Brick

Rian Johnson

6 films

Love him or hate him, Rian Johnson is a student of film, an expert of film history, and a lover…

  • Black Swan
  • Requiem for a Dream
  • mother!
  • Noah
  • The Wrestler

Darren Aronofsky

8 films

Darren Aronofsky is the greatest contemporary filmmaker working today. Hands down. I know a lot of really smart people who…

  • Young Frankenstein
  • Spaceballs
  • Silent Movie
  • Blazing Saddles
  • History of the World: Part I

Mel Brooks

11 films

Nothing has ever been too sacred, too vulgar, or too stupid for the unchallenged king of politically incorrect comedy. His…

  • Bicycle Thieves
  • Miracle in Milan
  • The Roof
  • Two Women
  • Shoeshine

Vittorio De Sica

27 films

One of the great directors of the postwar Italian neorealist movement. Vittorio De Sica was the most populist of all…