Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  The Art of Mirrors 1973

  ★★★★ Rewatched 04 Dec 2023

  I’m gonna be in a movie like this soon :)))

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  Flavio 1964

  ★★★½ Watched 04 Dec 2023

  “He says God forgot us, but he still goes to church.”

  Gordon Parks’ first directed film, about a boy’s life in Rio de Janeiro. Great photographs and finely-detailed observations about the poverty Flavio and his family live with in their favela. It seems Parks published a book called Flavio too, which I would guess reprises the subject.

Popular reviews

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  Everything Everywhere All at Once 2022

  ½ Watched 17 May 2022 25

  I feel like, in response to growing up and realizing they’re not meant to be important artists or leaders or activists or whatever, and that they’re just living an ordinary adult life like the rest of us, certain millennials have doubled down on that disappointment from the high expectations they had in childhood and are now like, actually I am the *most* important person in every universe that exists. Multiversal main character syndrome.

  With an escalating mass mental health crisis…

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  Ready Player One 2018

  Watched 29 Mar 2018 17

  "I hate myself

  I hate myself

  I hate myself

  For loving you"

  The text people are searching for to decode this bizarre film is Hiroki Azuma's critical theory book Otaku: Japan's Database Animals. I first heard of the book through McKenzie Wark, who, following Azuma, posited that Japan had begun grappling with post-modernity several decades earlier than the rest of the world. This I think is true, because what began in Japan can be seen emerging in the United States…