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  • This Is Not a Burial, It’s a Resurrection
  • Banel & Adama
  • The Gravedigger's Wife
  • Lingui: The Sacred Bonds

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  • Dancing in the Dust

    ★★★★

  • I’m Still Here

    ★★★½

  • A Real Pain

    ★★★★

  • The Seed of the Sacred Fig

    ★★★½

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  • Dancing in the Dust

    Dancing in the Dust 1989

    ★★★★ Watched 28 Nov 2024

    Some people watch Planes, Trains and Automobiles on Thanksgiving. I watch Bal Poussière.

  • I’m Still Here

    I’m Still Here 2024

    ★★★½ Watched 23 Nov 2024

    ...hi, yes...yes I would like to volunteer on behalf of the Oscar campaign for Fernanda Torres...yes...I accept the all expenses paid trip to Rio...yes I am willing to marry Anitta and renounce my American citizenship...

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  • A Real Pain

    A Real Pain 2024

    ★★★★ Watched 22 Nov 2024

    Before the screening, this dude Jesse Eisenberg casually walked into the MoMA theater with his son, sat him on his lap, and then watched the entire film. Props, I don't think I could sit through my film after all those hours looking at it in the editing suite.

    Yes, there is always that one guy on the Jewish trip who people go through stages of loving and hating. In case you couldn't guess, I'm that guy.

    Also got to meet Jesse, such a sweet man.

  • Anora

    Anora 2024

    ★★★★★ Watched 16 Oct 2024

    I SAW THIS ON 35MM WITH SEAN BAKER, MIKEY MADISON, MARK EYDELSHTEYN AND TWO ARMENIAN ACTORS WHOSE NAMES I DON'T KNOW LIVE IN PERSON FOR A Q&A MODERATED BY DAVID EHRLICH



    okay now that I have that out of the way


    wow


    just wow


    instant classic


    grant robertson if you're reading this you gotta make josh gorodinsky see anora with you because if you don't i will find you and hurt you very bad

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  • Alexandria Again and Forever
  • Alexandria… Why?
  • Atlantics
  • Dancing in the Dust
  • Bamako

The Cinema Africana: An Annotated Filmography 82 films

  • Twin Peaks: The Return
  • Shoah
  • At Land
  • The Confession
  • Wavelength

The Others 69 films

  • Metropolis
  • L'Âge d'or
  • Beauty and the Beast
  • A Matter of Life and Death
  • The Flowers of St. Francis

Seen in Theaters 308 films

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