Darin R 🎬 🎥 Pro

Favorite films

  • Blue Velvet
  • Mulholland Drive
  • Twin Peaks: The Return
  • Lost Highway

All
  • The Worst Person in the World

    ★★★★

  • A Tale of Springtime

    ★★★½

  • Dirty

    ★★★

  • Presence

    ★★★½

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A Tale of Springtime

1990

★★★½ Watched

My first Rohmer feature and I like this. Very talky but not in that 90s postmodern taking about nothing mumblecore prototype way. Intelligent characters discussing relationships, philosophy, jealousy, age differences. All of the characters are well written and believable. In addition, the scenery, from the Parisian apartments to the country house and garden, all lend a sense of having really been lived in rather than being a movie set. Together you feel as if these folks really have read these books as opposed to just being set dressing. Looking forward to the rest of the Seasons and his earlier works.

Dirty

2020

★★★ Watched

How was I supposed to know?

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Anora

2024

★★★★★ Liked Watched

Toosh 

Sean Baker does it again, training his camera on the marginalized and presenting them as capable of human emotions. But this time he blends in enough madcap elements of screwball comedy that in between the moving drama, you need time to catch your breath from laughing. The disdain the wealthy show towards, not just Anora, but their staff, gives it a sheen of the social satires of Bong Joon Ho. Frenetic editing and pacing. Between love and money lies…

The Substance

2024

★★★★½ Watched

One of the most over the top batshit insane body horror films I’ve seen. But it works because it knows it’s satire and leans hard in that direction. There’s nothing subtle about its takedown of Hollywood’s pursuit of ever younger starlets at the expense of aging stars past. Hell, Dennis Quaid is so over the top as the blatantly obvious named Harvey it should fail but the goofiness and disgusting displays - anyone want a shrimp cocktail? - are so…