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  • Lessons of Darkness
  • Nosferatu the Vampyre
  • The Holdovers
  • Unbreakable

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  • Demonlover

  • Eraserhead

  • The Sixth Sense

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  • Civil War

    Civil War 2024

    Watched 16 Dec 2024

    “So is the point of this movie is that journalists are evil?” One of my housemates to me after the credits rolled. Oh how I wish she was right, and in a sense she is, but it’s almost entirely by accident. The script seems to valorize the institution of war journalism, even where it suggests one has to be a little crazy to do so, but it shows us the behavior of complete sociopaths. To the extent that its subtext…

  • Dune: Part Two

    Dune: Part Two 2024

    Watched 01 Mar 2024

    I’m as shocked as you are. I have read the first three dune novels and absolutely adore the world Herbert created and the themes he explored. I love much of Villeneuve’s work and in particular will defend BR2049 til the day I die. I really enjoyed part one (i hadn’t even read the novel on my first viewing) and it only got better with repeat viewings. I say all of this to say I should love this movie, but frankly…

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  • My house walk-through

    My house walk-through 2016

    Watched 18 Jan 2025

    Could not believe this was largely practical. Remarkable stuff and absolutely terrifying.

  • Demonlover

    Demonlover 2002

    Watched 18 Jan 2025

    We live in a time where porn is more accessible and pervasive than it ever has been, and yet it feels as if cinema, and art more broadly, is completely impoverished when it comes to works exploring porn as a subject. It is heavily consumed and yet goes undiscussed, perhaps in the case of the country I live in its no more than a case of our puritan heritage rearing its head once again, but I still find it odd…

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  • Twin Peaks: The Return

    Twin Peaks: The Return 2017

    Rewatched 06 Feb 2021 2

    (No I didn’t watch it again) Finally got a chance to really let this work sit with me for a bit so I can right down my thoughts, I will be addressing Twin Peaks as a whole since that is what it is, one massive piece of art that transcends the medium of television. 

    That being said I will be focusing most on The Return since its events are most fresh in my mind. I guess the only way to…

  • The Last Temptation of Christ

    The Last Temptation of Christ 1988

    Rewatched 28 Aug 2023 2

    Paul Schrader be like “what if God was God’s loneliest man.”

    This unsurprisingly improves a lot on a rewatch. It is a film that is spiritually close to the gospels even where it differs a lot in a literal sense. I think Schrader is trying to upset modern audiences with the figure of Jesus in a way to make them understand what it must have felt like to encounter him in his day and age. The only way you can…

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  • Twin Peaks
  • Twin Peaks: The Return
  • Eraserhead
  • Blue Velvet
  • Inland Empire

Ranked: David Lynch 8 films

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  • Duck Soup
  • A Night at the Opera
  • Bringing Up Baby

S Tier Films 88 films

  • Annihilation
  • Under the Silver Lake
  • Long Day's Journey into Night
  • The Revenant
  • The Witch

Movies I Need to Watch Again 47 films

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