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Best of 2024

14 films

You've noticed that Hollywood has its energy back, often in surprising places -- even though the studios are complaining about…

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

Francis Ford Coppola

20 films

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

The greatest of the New Hollywood movement, truly exciting, constantly…

  • Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory
  • Annabelle Serpentine Dance
  • The Trust, or The Battles for Money
  • Tragic Error
  • The Torture of Silence

The Great Films // My Favorites

333 films

By release date.

Television Favourites: The Leftovers (2014 - 2017, Damon Lindelof & Tom Perotta) Hannibal (2013 - 2015, Bryan Fuller)…

  • Mulholland Drive
  • Eraserhead
  • Wild at Heart
  • Blue Velvet
  • Twin Peaks

2024 / Lynch Ranked

6 films

Ranked as I revisit, I’ve seen all his major work before, though. In this context ‘Twin Peaks’ stands in only…

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

M. Night Ranked

16 films

To be very clear about this, M. Night is one of the more accomplished craftspeople of this generation. The first…

  • When the Light Breaks
  • No Other Land
  • Days of Heaven
  • Problemista
  • The Beast

NZIFF Schedule

10 films

The films I will be seeing.

  • Aggro Dr1ft
  • The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar
  • Knock at the Cabin
  • Touch of Crude
  • GANGBANG

Top 20 of 2023

20 films

Artists find ways to continue working among Hollywood’s cracks. Streaming services continue to spend unbelievable amounts of money on unbelievably…

  • My Own Private Idaho
  • Down with Love
  • I'm Really Scared When I Kill in My Dreams
  • The Demons
  • A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2: Freddy's Revenge
  • The Human Centipede 3 (Final Sequence)
  • #Horror
  • 31
  • Good Time
  • Revenge

The New 'Torture-Porn'

15 films

What comes next, after Hostel, after Saw?

These two aforementioned franchises acknowledge the dense, explicitly American horror of Abu Ghraib.…

  • Against Time
  • Skinamarink
  • The Fabelmans
  • TÁR
  • RRR

Best of 2022

15 films

A year in which mainstream cinema kicked ass at scale.

  • Twin Peaks: The Return
  • Too Old to Die Young
  • The Outsider
  • Copenhagen Cowboy
  • The Curse

The New Slow Cinema - On Television

5 films

A movement in formation, kickstarted by Lynch & Frost in 2017. Cringe poetics and cringe comedy combine. Surrealism becomes the modicum…

  • Symbiopsychotaxiplasm
  • Schizopolis
  • Gummo
  • Freddy Got Fingered
  • Jackass: The Movie

A Genealogy of Quasi-documentary Cringe Comedy (& adjacent works)

38 films

One of my favourite genres deploys non-actors and actors-as-themselves with aplomb. Formal considerations become the same as conceptual considerations and…

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