A Banana Republic catalogue with musical numbers. Caps off a banner year for a genre becoming tragically bereft of formal risk.
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Watched on Tuesday December 10, 2024.
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Watched on Tuesday December 10, 2024.
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That one ugly mf who gives the best head
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Movies be so pretty then BOOM Steven Knight screenplay.
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Watched on Sunday December 8, 2024.
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Watched on Saturday December 7, 2024.
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Watched on Saturday December 7, 2024.
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Watched on Friday December 6, 2024.
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Watched on Friday December 6, 2024.
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Watched on Thursday December 5, 2024.
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Watched on Sunday December 1, 2024.
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Watched on Sunday December 1, 2024.
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Watched on Saturday November 30, 2024.
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Watched on Saturday November 30, 2024.
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Watched on Friday November 29, 2024.
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Watched on Friday November 29, 2024.
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Watched on Thursday November 28, 2024.
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Watched on Wednesday November 27, 2024.
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Watched on Wednesday November 27, 2024.
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Watched on Wednesday November 27, 2024.
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Watched on Tuesday November 26, 2024.
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Watched on Friday November 22, 2024.
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Watched on Tuesday November 19, 2024.
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A movie that features rhinoceros impalement, baboon attacks, sharks in the Colosseum and decapitation galore yet Ridley’s direction drains all of those things from a greater visceral thrill. The script is bad but could have been good hammy melodrama had Mescal not been so seemingly checked-out. Now add in poor coverage, lighting and blocking — which stunts both action and drama in the most awkward fashion — and 150 minutes becomes a real drag. Goofy Gonzo antics here and there (mainly just Denzel being Denzel) but not nearly enough to save it from suffering a great deal of tedium. Love it or hate it, an undeniable Hot Mess.
Very sweet moment at the Q&A after the screening: Ridley was asked which one of his movies he would preserve until the end of time… he said “Boy and Bicycle. A film I made for £65 in 1965 with my brother Tony. I found out someone put it on the internet recently so I watched it. It has a real emotional punch. Tony would have made a really great actor.” :((
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Watched on Saturday November 16, 2024.
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Watched on Saturday November 16, 2024.
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Watched on Saturday November 16, 2024.
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Watched on Friday November 15, 2024.
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Watched on Thursday November 14, 2024.
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Watched on Tuesday November 12, 2024.
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The Slutty Junkie’s Apocalypse Now — a fever dream about the insatiable desire to touch the untouchable. LOVE that James Bond is cum swapping now!!
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Watched on Sunday November 10, 2024.
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For such a prolific filmmaker, Ridley Scott only has a few good movies under his belt and his single best picture winner is not one of them. A solemn, lumbering, exhaustive epic that falls into the tradition of DeMille’s clumsiest sword-and-sandal features. That being said, I always loved Oliver Reed’s delivery of “you sold me queer giraffes.”
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Ultra-earnest, ultra-theatrical, ultra-glossy, ultra-ULTRA. It’s pure maximalist spectacle and (despite a couple hundred thousand flaws…most of them attributed to the lighting design) it’s irresistibly entertaining. For the first time in years, an event film actually feels like an event!!
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Watched on Friday November 8, 2024.
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A real testament to a great ensemble of actors, specifically in regard to how well you can act in an echoing courtroom while a 93-year-old bearded geezer munches on cheez-its behind the camera.
It’s no The Mule (obviously!!) but it’s certainly engrossing even if it’s achingly square. Late Eastwood is as good as the scripts he gets, if that, and this one is the tightest thing that’s fallen into his lap in years! ……At least i would assume so? Unfortunately he is also too straightforward and downright geriatric in his approach to make it something substantive. It’s standard procedure at the end of the day. A run-of-the-mill with a whole lot of huffing and puffing to the finish line.
Collette, Simmons and Yarbrough MVPs. Still not sold on post-Skins Hoult….
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Watched on Tuesday November 5, 2024.
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No one made me aware that this film features such subplots as Ben Franklin’s illegitimate child, Spanish Flu, the invention of Lazyboy, early onset Alzheimer’s, police brutality and Covid. Zemeckis wants us to feel all kinds of warm, fuzzy feelings about family and the passage of time, but instead creates a domestic purgatory. He’s too sweet and saccharine to grasp the existential terror of that. In other words, just what you would imagine if you thought “what if the director of The Polar Express remade Michael Snow’s Wavelength?”
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Watched on Sunday November 3, 2024.
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Watched on Saturday November 2, 2024.
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Watched on Thursday October 31, 2024.
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Watched on Wednesday October 30, 2024.
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Watched on Tuesday October 29, 2024.
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Watched on Sunday October 27, 2024.
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Buy your mom flowers, wherever she may be.
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Watched on Sunday October 27, 2024.
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Watched on Saturday October 26, 2024.
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Watched on Friday October 25, 2024.
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Watched on Thursday October 24, 2024.
]]>- Die Nibelungen: Siegfried
- Die Nibelungen: Kriemhild's Revenge
- Metropolis
- M
- The Indian Tomb
- The Big Heat
- The Testament of Dr. Mabuse
- The Tiger of Eschnapur
- Spies
- You Only Live Once
...plus 4 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
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too many to count
- Right Now, Wrong Then
- The Woman Who Ran
- The Day He Arrives
- Walk Up
- A Traveler's Needs
- In Another Country
- The Novelist's Film
- Tale of Cinema
- On the Beach at Night Alone
- Woman on the Beach
...plus 5 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>- A Brighter Summer Day
- Persona
- Harakiri
- All That Jazz
- Certified Copy
- Apocalypse Now
- I Am Cuba
- Streetwise
- Funeral Parade of Roses
- Andrei Rublev
...plus 190 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
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Splendor
This is how the world ends
Three Bewildered People in the Night
- Unforgiven
- White Hunter, Black Heart
- Million Dollar Baby
- The Outlaw Josey Wales
- Gran Torino
- Honkytonk Man
- The Mule
- Sudden Impact
- A Perfect World
- High Plains Drifter
...plus 14 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>A Complete Ranking.
- No Country for Old Men
- Unforgiven
- Annie Hall
- Amadeus
- The Godfather Part II
- The Sound of Music
- Moonlight
- Midnight Cowboy
- The Bridge on the River Kwai
- The Silence of the Lambs
...plus 86 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>The COMPLETE feature film ranking.
- Naked Lunch
- Crash
- The Fly
- Eastern Promises
- Dead Ringers
- A History of Violence
- eXistenZ
- The Shrouds
- Videodrome
- M. Butterfly
...plus 13 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>- Showing Up
- Killers of the Flower Moon
- May December
- Fallen Leaves
- Poor Things
- Passages
- The Killer
- Menus-Plaisirs, les Troisgros
- The Zone of Interest
- The Taste of Things
...plus 66 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
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I Wish I Knew
Pickpocket
Unknown Pleasures
Useless
The World
Favorites
The Stevie Canon
The Queer Canon
The Doc Canon
The Fear Canon
Female-Directed Favorites
Years
2015 • 2016 • 2017 • 2018 • 2019 • 2020 • 2021 • 2022 • 2023
Director Rankings
Chantal Akerman • Woody Allen • Pedro Almodóvar • Robert Altman • Paul Thomas Anderson • Wes Anderson • Kenneth Anger • Michelangelo Antonioni • Gregg Araki • Dario Argento • Andrea Arnold • Darren Aronofsky • Ingmar Bergman • Bong Joon-ho • Robert Bresson • Luis Buñuel • James Cameron • Jane Campion • John Carpenter • John Cassavetes • Charlie Chaplin • Joel & Ethan Coen • Francis Ford Coppola • Sofia Coppola • Pedro Costa • David Cronenberg • Alfonso Cuarón • Brian De Palma • Guillermo del Toro • Cecil B. DeMille • Claire Denis • Xavier Dolan • Clint Eastwood • Rainer Werner Fassbinder • Federico Fellini • Abel Ferrara • David Fincher • John Ford • Terry Gilliam • Jean-Luc Godard • James Gray • Peter Greenaway • Michael Haneke • Todd Haynes • Werner Herzog • Alfred Hitchcock • Hong Sang-soo • Derek Jarman • Jim Jarmusch • Jia Zhangke • Alejandro Jodorowsky • Abbas Kiarostami • Harmony Korine • Stanley Kubrick • Akira Kurosawa • Fritz Lang • Yorgos Lanthimos • Ang Lee • Spike Lee • David Lynch • Terrence Malick • Michael Mann • Steve McQueen • Nancy Meyers • Hayao Miyazaki • Gaspar Noé • Christopher Nolan • Yasujirō Ozu • Park Chan-wook • Pier Paolo Pasolini • Satyajit Ray • Kelly Reichardt • Éric Rohmer • Ken Russell • Martin Scorsese • M. Night Shyamalan • Douglas Sirk • Steven Soderbergh • Todd Solondz • Steven Spielberg • Quentin Tarantino • Andrei Tarkovsky • Tsai Ming-liang • Gus Van Sant • Agnès Varda • Paul Verhoeven • Denis Villeneuve • Josef von Sternberg • Lars von Trier • Lana & Lily Wachowski • John Waters • Apichatpong Weerasethakul • Orson Welles • Nicolas Winding Refn • Frederick Wiseman • Wong Kar-wai • Edward Yang • Zhang Yimou
Film Universe/Canon Rankings
Alien • Fast & Furious • Godzilla • Halloween • Harry Potter • James Bond • MCU • Mission: Impossible • Pixar • Planet of the Apes • Resident Evil • Saw • Scream • Star Trek • Star Wars • Studio Ghibli • Universal Horror
Festivals
2020 — Berlinale • NYFF • AFI
2021 — Sundance • SXSW • NYFF • Montclair • AFI
Best Picture & Palme d'Or Winners
Best Picture (completed)
Palme d’Or (in progress)
Best Picture Nominees
2013 • 2014 • 2015 • 2016 • 2017 • 2018 • 2019 • 2020 • 2021 • 2022 • 2023 • 2024
RULES:
- 31 Horror Movies by the end of October / one a day average (new releases included)
- No distinct rules regarding specific movies that need to be watched, just 31 horror movies for the month
- A movie counts as horror if horror is listed as a genre on Letterboxd
- Movies that were watched in the LAST YEAR’S CHALLENGE are NOT eligible to qualify for this year’s challenge. Regular rewatches are welcome as long as they have NOT been watched for Cocktober. That goes for subsequent years as well. Once a movie is used once for Cocktober, it cannot be used again.
- The Discarnates
- The Demon
- The New York Ripper
- Lake Mungo
- Four Flies on Grey Velvet
- The Bird with the Crystal Plumage
- Smile 2
- The Omen
- The Cat o' Nine Tails
- The Stendhal Syndrome
...plus 6 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
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The Card Player
Do You Like Hitchcock?
Dracula 3D
The Five Days
Giallo
Jennifer
Mother of Tears
Pelts
Phantom of the Opera
Sleepless
Trauma
Two Evil Eyes
- Tenebre
- Opera
- Suspiria
- The Bird with the Crystal Plumage
- Four Flies on Grey Velvet
- Deep Red
- The Cat o' Nine Tails
- The Stendhal Syndrome
- Phenomena
- Inferno
...plus 1 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>Horror favorites
- The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
- Eraserhead
- The Exorcist
- The Cremator
- Possession
- Rosemary's Baby
- Funny Games
- Inland Empire
- Demons
- The Thing
...plus 90 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
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- Annie Hall
- Hannah and Her Sisters
- Husbands and Wives
- Midnight in Paris
- Sleeper
- Everyone Says I Love You
- Crimes and Misdemeanors
- Love and Death
- Blue Jasmine
...plus 11 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
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not yet ranked:
The Cotton Club
Dementia 13
Finian’s Rainbow
Gardens of Stone
The Rainmaker
The Rain People
Rip Van Winkle
Tonight for Sure
Twixt
You’re a Big Boy Now
- Apocalypse Now
- The Godfather Part II
- The Conversation
- The Godfather
- Rumble Fish
- Bram Stoker's Dracula
- Tetro
- The Godfather Part III
- One from the Heart
- Megalopolis
...plus 5 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
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The Hudsucker Proxy
Intolerable Cruelty
The Ladykillers
- No Country for Old Men
- Inside Llewyn Davis
- A Serious Man
- Raising Arizona
- Fargo
- Blood Simple
- Barton Fink
- True Grit
- The Big Lebowski
- O Brother, Where Art Thou?
...plus 8 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>- 2001: A Space Odyssey
- Barry Lyndon
- A Clockwork Orange
- Eyes Wide Shut
- The Shining
- Paths of Glory
- The Killing
- Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
- Full Metal Jacket
- Spartacus
...plus 3 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>- Eraserhead
- Mulholland Drive
- Twin Peaks: The Return
- Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
- Blue Velvet
- Inland Empire
- Lost Highway
- The Elephant Man
- The Straight Story
- Wild at Heart
...plus 3 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>- The River
- The Wayward Cloud
- The Hole
- What Time Is It There?
- Rebels of the Neon God
- Goodbye, Dragon Inn
- Vive L'Amour
- Stray Dogs
- Face
- Days
...plus 4 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>- The Village
- The Sixth Sense
- Old
- Unbreakable
- Signs
- Trap
- Split
- Praying with Anger
- Knock at the Cabin
- Glass
...plus 6 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
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Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far on Foot
Even Cowgirls Get The Blues
Finding Forrester
Promised Land
Psycho
Restless
Sea of Trees
- Iron Man
- Guardians of the Galaxy
- Black Panther
- Avengers: Endgame
- Avengers: Infinity War
- Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
- Spider-Man: Homecoming
- Thor: Ragnarok
- Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
- Captain America: The Winter Soldier
...plus 22 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>- The Searchers
- The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
- The Quiet Man
- Fort Apache
- My Darling Clementine
- The Sun Shines Bright
- 7 Women
- She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
- Sergeant Rutledge
- Two Rode Together
...plus 17 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
- Gone Girl
- Zodiac
- The Social Network
- Se7en
- The Killer
- Fight Club
- The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
- Panic Room
- Alien³
...plus 2 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>LGBTQ+ favorites.
- Tongues Untied
- Funeral Parade of Roses
- Paris Is Burning
- Mulholland Drive
- Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
- The Blood of a Poet
- Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom
- Female Trouble
- The Rocky Horror Picture Show
- Moonlight
...plus 90 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>- An Elephant Sitting Still
- The Irishman
- The Beach Bum
- Climax
- La Flor
- Parasite
- Uncut Gems
- Portrait of a Lady on Fire
- High Life
- Gloria Bell
...plus 105 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>- Memoria
- The Souvenir: Part II
- Drive My Car
- About Endlessness
- Licorice Pizza
- Red Rocket
- Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time
- West Side Story
- Vortex
- Pleasure
...plus 147 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>*Top 20
- American Honey
- Cemetery of Splendor
- Silence
- Cameraperson
- Moonlight
- The Handmaiden
- The Fits
- 20th Century Women
- Paterson
- The Lobster
...plus 10 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>- Phantom Thread
- Lady Bird
- Call Me by Your Name
- The Killing of a Sacred Deer
- Beach Rats
- The Shape of Water
- Star Wars: The Last Jedi
- Happy End
- The Ornithologist
- I, Daniel Blake
...plus 89 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
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- First Reformed
- Roma
- Shoplifters
- The Favourite
- Vox Lux
- Shirkers
- Annihilation
- Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again
- Lean on Pete
...plus 113 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
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- No Bears
- The Eternal Daughter
- Saint Omer
- All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
- Blonde
- Mariner of the Mountains
- One Fine Morning
- Decision to Leave
- Return to Seoul
...plus 105 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
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The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
Jabberwocky
The Zero Theorem
not yet ranked:
After Liverpool
The Castle
Cosi fan tutte
Fraulein
Lemmings, Part 1 — Arcadia
Lemmings, Part 2 — Injuries
Obituary for a Murderer
The Rebellion
Three Paths to the Lake
Time of the Wolf
Variation
Who Was Edgar Allen?
- The White Ribbon
- Amour
- Funny Games
- The Piano Teacher
- Caché
- Code Unknown
- Funny Games
- The Seventh Continent
- Happy End
- Benny's Video
...plus 1 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
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- The Cranes Are Flying
- All That Jazz
- Apocalypse Now
- Paris, Texas
- The Leopard
- The White Ribbon
- Taxi Driver
- Amour
- The Tree of Life
- Brief Encounter
...plus 59 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
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Big Trouble
- Love Streams
- Opening Night
- The Killing of a Chinese Bookie
- A Woman Under the Influence
- Husbands
- Gloria
- A Child Is Waiting
- Too Late Blues
- Shadows
- Faces
...plus 1 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
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]]>- Meshes of the Afternoon
- The Meetings of Anna
- American Honey
- One Sings, the Other Doesn't
- Paris Is Burning
- Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
- At Land
- The Ascent
- Cameraperson
- Marie Antoinette
...plus 90 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>- Eight Hours Don’t Make a Day
- In a Year with 13 Moons
- The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant
- Fox and His Friends
- The Marriage of Maria Braun
- World on a Wire
- Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
- The Third Generation
- Querelle
- Despair
...plus 2 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
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- Belfast, Maine
- Near Death
- Welfare
- Canal Zone
- Juvenile Court
- Public Housing
- National Gallery
- In Jackson Heights
- Essene
- Domestic Violence
...plus 16 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>- Persona
- Scenes from a Marriage
- Cries and Whispers
- The Seventh Seal
- The Virgin Spring
- Autumn Sonata
- Fanny and Alexander
- Hour of the Wolf
- The Passion of Anna
- Winter Light
...plus 22 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>favorite documentaries
- Streetwise
- Belfast, Maine
- Paris Is Burning
- Tongues Untied
- Koyaanisqatsi
- When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts
- Cameraperson
- Near Death
- The Transformation
- Canal Zone
...plus 70 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
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