Jake Savage

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Favorite films

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Love, Money, Love 2000

★★★★★ Rewatched 19 Sep 2023

Grainy 35mm photography, speed manipulation, completely earnest use of the Velvet Underground, and most importantly, Sabine Timoteo. This was an early favorite of mine as a budding cinephile and I was utterly delighted to find out that it absolutely holds up. Back in the day, it seemed like movies such as this one were a dime a dozen, but in 2023 this honestly feels like it's from a completely different world. I guess it is.
Blood 1989

★★★★½ Rewatched 16 Sep 2023

I’ll say more later but this is very clearly the best movie Pedro Costa has ever made.

Taipei Story 1985

★★★★ Watched 18 Mar 2017 7

"It cannot be said that Taipei is a modern and Western-style city, in the same way that one could affirm this of Shanghai, for example. Rather it is an example of some generally late-capitalist urbanization (which one hesitates, except to make the point, to call postmodern), of a now classic proliferation of the urban fabric that one finds everywhere in the First and Third Worlds alike." - Frederick Jameson, The Geopolitical Aesthetic
"How was Los Angeles?"
"It's just like Taipei."…
Kicking and Screaming 1995

★★★★ Watched 24 Jan 2014 7

This is pretty much my life right now. No, not hooking up with Parker Posey, but the post-graduating living with your parents, jerking off every day, being unemployed, and getting drunk as much as possible hits so close to home. Also, it's really funny. I'm not sure how I'm going to go back to Rohmer for my talky sad comedies when Chris Eigeman isn't there.