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The Parallax View As American as apple pie

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The Appointment, White Dog June Recap: Sidelined Man's Best Friend Pictures

wrote about Samuel Fuller's White Dog & Lyndsey C. Vickers' The Appointment, as a pair of sidelined dog-horror pictures. Excellent watches

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I had a blast talking about an early Almodovar gem, pure chaos and brutally funny.

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NEW EPISODE! Back to some classic 80s Almodovar with WHAT HAVE I DONE TO DESERVE THIS! It's part sex comedy, Neo-Realist and Rebellious Youth film!

Listen on Spotify, Podbean, Google Play, Amazon Podcast thing, etc.

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i’m taking on a new personal project this month. i’ve just collected a large collection of 35mm film negatives of black american life in the 1970s and 1980s and am going to begin digitizing them into an archive of their own.

i’ll write about my progress here.

John Lithgow, you absolute legend

BEST FILMS OF 2024 MONTAGE Geordie Greep - Holy Holy, Gyedu-Blay Ambolley

Favorite Films of 2024, Montage
My top 5:
1. La Chimera
2. The Beast
3. Evil Does Not Exist
4. On Becoming A Guinea Fowl
5. Red Rooms
#cinema
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Red Rooms is so good. I'd recommend that. It's on Prime

BEST FILMS OF 2024 MONTAGE Geordie Greep - Holy Holy, Gyedu-Blay Ambolley

Favorite Films of 2024, Montage
My top 5:
1. La Chimera
2. The Beast
3. Evil Does Not Exist
4. On Becoming A Guinea Fowl
5. Red Rooms
#cinema
vimeo.com/1051185111

The Film Comment Podcast: Sundance 2025 #2 Listen closely: critics Robert Daniels and Tim Grierson debate early festival selections Rabbit Trap, Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore, Twinless, and more

It was a pleasure being on the Film Comment podcast with Devika Girish and @812filmreviews.bsky.social to discuss some early Sundance hits and misses. (Especially enjoyed getting to talk about TWINLESS.)

close enough, welcome back Vanilla Sky x Rez by Underworld. #Eusexua

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Best Films of 2024
Ethiopian Film Podcast
Videobet Cine.

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Check Out @bandamlakyimenu.bsky.social 's new podcast!

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NEW EPISODE!

@bandamlakyimenu.bsky.social stops by for a chat about art film, Japon, and Carlos Reygadas! CW: There is on-screen animal death in Japon.

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Favorite First Time Watches of 2024 (non 2024 movies) A list of 50 films compiled on Letterboxd, including A Moment of Innocence (1996), Losing Ground (1982), Yeelen (1987), Hyenas (1992) and Local Hero (1983).

Favorite First Time Watches of 2024 (non 2024 movies)
~ A Moment of Innocence
~ Losing Ground
~ Yeelen
~ Hyenas
~ Local Hero
~ Seven Beauties
~ Personal Problems
~ Conversation Piece
~ The Butcher (Le Boucher)

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Love is an endless act of forgiveness. Weekly Directed By Women Viewing Guide

This week’s Directed By Women Viewing Guide is all about the perils of womanhood, the solidarity of sisterhood, the contradictions of love, and the inevitability of death.

Article: Taking a walk with Wild Side As a co-host of an Erotic Thriller podcast, I rented Wild Side with a hopeful amount of expectation. I first caught wind of the film when ...

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Wrote about Wild Side

just watched the apprentice & liked it a lot more than I would've expected and it's all down to Sebastian Stan's performance (Strong & Bakalova also great). but what a year he's having... also watched A Different Man earlier this week - scratched my Charlie Kaufman itch, one of my favs of the year

A ★★★★½ review of Red Rooms (2023) reporting live from my bedroom, ideal 3AM viewing on prime. I purposely avoided knowing anything about it, and it was such a unique viewing experience. We start off with our main character (Kelly-Anne...

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Red Rooms, what a movie. I can't recommend it highly enough, and go into it without knowing absolutely anything about it like I did. ideal 3am viewing

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Evil Does Not Exist Ryusuke Hamaguchi's elliptical and haunting ecological fable

I haven't stopped thinking about Evil Does Not Exist all week, I've seen it twice now - such a heady, rewarding watch. Up there with The Beast and La Chimera as my absolute favorites of the year #evildoesnotexist
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It's up there for me

A ★★★★ review of Last Summer (2023) There's just nobody doing it like Breillat, approaching these topics with complexity and a sharp knife. Anne is a fascinating character, and her occupation which she excels at with cruel precision as ...

My ★★★★ review of Last Summer on Letterboxd boxd.it/88EF9z

THE BRUTALIST With the exception of one particular scene that I thought was really on the nose & unnecessary but also strangely important to the story, I ...

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Jauja (2014) dir. Lisandro Alonso

Burt between scenes of Local Hero.

The Souvenir/Still Processing

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You must!

Haven't seen Autumn Afternoon. My favorite is Late Spring or Good Morning. But it's different each time