Sebastián Valencia

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Mexican Director & Editor
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  • Mad Max: Fury Road
  • Raiders of the Lost Ark
  • Moonlight
  • Before Sunset

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  • Flow

    ★★★★★

  • Nosferatu

    ★★★★½

  • Wicked

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  • Elf

    ★★★½

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  • Lady Vengeance

    Lady Vengeance 2005

    ★★★★½ Watched 22 Jan 2021 4

    Geum-ja is a fascinating character for a revenge movie because she has already given up on her soul from the beginning. It’s as if she has the hindsight of Oldboy and Mr. Vengeance and knows how empty those characters ended up. But then Park Chan-wook reveals a brilliant perspective: maybe revenge can be a corrective not only for other people’s demons but for your own too. And so, the main conflict of Lady Vengeance is the revenge that she’s exacting on herself. It’s atonement, more so than retribution. Suddenly, rebirth is not off the table.

  • Nope

    Nope 2022

    ★★★★★ Rewatched 28 May 2023 1

    Lots of films can be seen as “being about films”, but few are this rich, this entertaining, and this self-referential. Nope is about the dilemma of chasing spectacle or chasing fulfilment, and realizing how –specially in this industry– sometimes both are connected. Just ask Spielberg. Spectacle will fuck you up, but when it’s on your side… the world gets Jaws. Nope is Jaws if Jaws was about how hard it was to make Jaws. It’s metamodernism fully realized: deconstruction with sincerity.

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  • Interstellar

    Interstellar 2014

    ★★★★ Watched 10 Dec 2024

    A space film of this level with its themes of love and wonder should be an automatic 5-star for me, yet I’m always thrown off by its insistence of spelling everything out to the point of spoiling itself. No other movie explicitly tells you the theme halfway through, by a character that we don’t even fully understand. I simply wish there was more silence, the characters never stop telling me what I should be feeling and thinking. Still, watching this on IMAX is a spectacular, one of a kind experience. It’s everything movie wonder should be. Frustratingly gorgeous, no other way to describe it.

  • Red Rooms

    Red Rooms 2023

    ★★★★ Watched 07 Dec 2024

    A lot to say about true crime obsession and the danger of being extremely online, but the theme that’s underneath all of it is so provocative and all-encompassing: our overconfidence in our ability to read people. Incredible performance by Juliette Gariépy, hard to decipher yet always present and unobstructed.

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  • Love Never Dies

    Love Never Dies 2012

    ★½ Watched 25 Jul 2020

    me: mom, can we have Phantom of the Opera?

    mom: no, we have Phantom of the Opera at home

    Phantom of the Opera at home:

  • Memories of Murder

    Memories of Murder 2003

    ★★★★½ Watched 11 Jan 2021 2

    The Zodiac comparison is inevitable; they are both crime dramas about obsession. But whereas Fincher talks about the fixation with the truth, Joon-Ho focuses on the fixation with being right, even in opposition to the truth. The characters won’t escape their subjectivity because it’s easier to believe our falsehoods than to face ourselves.

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My Physical Media Collection 357 films

  • 2001: A Space Odyssey
  • Do the Right Thing
  • GoodFellas
  • In the Mood for Love
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My Hypothetical Sight & Sound Ballot 2022 10 films

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The Best of 2024 31 films

  • WALL·E
  • Toy Story
  • Ratatouille
  • The Incredibles
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