Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Amarcord 1973

  ★★★★½ Watched 30 Jul 2022

  An American movie could never be this horny!

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  Vertigo 1958

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 13 Feb 2022

  Boy was I wrong about this one. Glad to have finally seen the light!

Popular reviews

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  Belle de Jour 1967

  ★★★★★ Watched 25 Jul 2014 1

  Right around the halfway point of Belle de Jour— Luis Buñuel’s erotic, surrealist classic — a supposedly unusual request from a client at the small Parisian brothel where the protagonist works arrives without much fanfare. What follows involves a small lacquered box which emits a sound best described as the buzz of a mosquito and a sexual encounter between Séverine and the client that leaves some of the staff scared/puzzled. It's a small moment, comprising maybe 3 minutes of the…

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  Cat on a Hot Tin Roof 1958

  ★★½ Watched 22 Aug 2014

  I am a huge Tennessee Williams fan, so I went into Cat on a Hot Tin Roof expecting to like it. Imagine my disappointment at finding that this filmed version of one of Williams' most famous plays was gutted like a fish by the Hays Code. What's left is a good looking, well-acted but entirely different (inferior) version of the story.

  Even if I were to accept that general audiences at the time weren't ready to deal with the homoerotic…