Dom Sinacola

Dom Sinacola Pro

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  • Aguirre, the Wrath of God
  • Harakiri
  • Who Framed Roger Rabbit
  • La Jetée

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  • Eraserhead

    ★★★★½

  • Lady Blue Shanghai

  • Premonitions Following an Evil Deed

    ★★★★

  • Wolf Man

    ★★

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  • Eraserhead

    Eraserhead 1977

    ★★★★½ Rewatched 17 Jan 2025

    We are full of holes and time moving forward is only wind passing through those holes. Being alive is contending with the endless squelching howl of our orifices.

  • Lady Blue Shanghai

    Lady Blue Shanghai 2010

    Watched 17 Jan 2025

    I will be thinking about the moment the handbag emerges from the giant, building-sized tv screen for a long time. If you haven't seen this short film, your reaction is probably still like "oh sure, the handbag emerging from the giant screen" instead of any other casual confusion, and such is the ineffable beauty of what we've lost.

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  • Megalopolis

    Megalopolis 2024

    Watched 23 Sep 2024 4

    Before the movie, there was a Q&A beamed in from the Lincoln Center in NY, with Dennis Lim interviewing Coppola, Robert De Niro, and Spike Lee. The old man energy, off the charts, was never more compelling than when Coppola described the human race as a "family of geniuses" with the ingenuity, creativity, and capacity of love to leave the world a better place than when we entered it—to give our children something more—and Robert De Niro was pretty much…

  • Capone

    Capone 2020

    ★ Watched 22 Apr 2020 8

    I have been asked by the PR company to take down the review due to an embargo they only just now informed me is in effect.

    EDIT -- Embargo up, here was my original review:

    As redolent of pee and poop as Hard to Be a God; as miserable and creeping as The Death of Louis XIV; very grotesque and dumb. Somehow there is no joy to be had in watching Al Capone in a diaper, smoking a carrot, mowing…

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2025 (US release dates) 3 films

  • Canyon Passage
  • One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
  • The Goonies
  • Stand by Me
  • Drugstore Cowboy

Oregon Canon 21 films

  • Evil Does Not Exist
  • The Brutalist
  • The Beast
  • Dune: Part Two
  • Local Legends: Bloodbath!

2024 (US release dates) 62 films

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