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Top 10 of 2025

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deeply incoherent year with a lot of great films

  • Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory
  • Danse serpentine (Annabelle)
  • The Trust, or The Battles for Money
  • Tragic Error
  • The Torture of Silence

The Great Films // My Favorites

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By release date.

Television Favourites: The Leftovers (2014 - 2017, Damon Lindelof & Tom Perotta) Hannibal (2013 - 2015, Bryan Fuller) Lost (2004 - 2010, Damon Lindelof & Carlton Cuse) Bojack Horseman (2014 - 2020, Raphael Bob-Waksberg) Girls

  • Halloween II
  • The Human Centipede 3 (Final Sequence)
  • #Horror
  • 31
  • Good Time

The New 'Torture-Porn'

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What comes next, after Hostel, after Saw?

These two aforementioned franchises acknowledge the dense, explicitly American horror of Abu Ghraib. The Hostel series in particular are a beautiful duet of films that acknowledge the intense trauma

  • Peeping Tom
  • Psycho
  • The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
  • Black Christmas
  • Halloween

Canonical Slasher Chronology

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I am using the word 'slasher' in this list under a wide lens, including the transition to canonical gun violence movies that behave in ways adjacent to slasher movies and with slasher-like thinking.

I here define

  • Faust
  • Faust
  • Faust
  • The Big Sleep
  • The Third Man

Research for Black Window: Faust

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Research notes: - Iterations of Faust from media - Iterations of noir - Theatre works I like that relate to the process - Iterations of camp fairytales - Imagery with black goo

  • Twin Peaks: The Return
  • Inland Empire
  • Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
  • The Straight Story
  • Mulholland Drive

2024-2025 / Lynch Ranked

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RIP to a real one. Ranked as I revisit, I’ve seen all his major work before, though. In this context ‘Twin Peaks’ stands in only for the Pilot episode, which I like a significant amount more

  • I Saw the TV Glow
  • Hit Man
  • A Complete Unknown
  • Chime
  • The Seed of the Sacred Fig

Best of 2024

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You've noticed that Hollywood has its energy back, often in surprising places -- even though the studios are complaining about a lack of ticket sales and diminishing box office returns. International cinematographers are working alongside major

  • Twixt
  • Apocalypse Now
  • The Godfather Part II
  • Rumble Fish
  • One from the Heart

Francis Ford Coppola

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"I was always happy to do any type of film."

The greatest of the New Hollywood movement, truly exciting, constantly innovative (even into the 21st century), pushing the boundaries of all genres he worked within.

  • The Village
  • Signs
  • Knock at the Cabin
  • Split
  • The Visit

M. Night Ranked

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To be very clear about this, M. Night is one of the more accomplished craftspeople of this generation. The first eight films here are perfect. All of them are good.

  • AGGRO DR1FT
  • The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar
  • Knock at the Cabin
  • Touch of Crude
  • GANGBANG

Top 20 of 2023

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Artists find ways to continue working among Hollywood’s cracks. Streaming services continue to spend unbelievable amounts of money on unbelievably obscure vanity projects. 'Auteurs' from the past are resurrected. The biggest arthouse director you know is

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