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a matter of life and death

Watched on Monday June 2, 2025.

probably a bit overstuffed but i firmly believe this is one of his most beautifully written on top of being his most stylistically ambitious, especially for this new era. he seems so hesitant about going full meta but ends up there anyway with Howitzer consistently toying with what should and shouldn't find itself in the final publication. almost reads like a fantasy to leave it all out there and die before seeing the consequences. this all makes it more compelling than him going head-first into the meta-modernism of Asteroid City, personally. that final "what happens next?" goes crazy knowing the direction he goes in after this. i've always wondered what that travel-guide section was really doing in here, but that "All grand beauties withhold their deepest secrets" line really reads like the crux of this whole thing. not mid, just a mid-life crisis

Watched on Saturday May 31, 2025.

mind-altering and a lot of fun. funny how instantly recognizable the dylan brady score was 💥

Watched on Tuesday May 27, 2025.

such a banger

Watched on Sunday May 25, 2025.

Watched on Saturday May 24, 2025.

skol!

utterly sauceless

really truly think carla is one of the best doing it these days, every time i watch one of her films i float a little. makes sense why some of the dreamier elements of this work so naturally. gorgeous gorgeous gorgeous

super my thing and embarrassed to realize this is my first jafar panahi. masterful all around and an eerily subtle descent into hell. could say this about 90% of these cannes films but a bit much for 8am 😵‍💫

Watched on Wednesday May 21, 2025.

ice spice brought it

Watched on Tuesday May 20, 2025.

tough watch

pisses me off how talented harris dickinson is

Watched on Monday May 19, 2025.

Watched on Sunday May 18, 2025.

/: in one ear and out the other kinda thing. my goat is… no i can’t say it…

edit: i want to see it again as soon as possible

japanese schoolgirl SHOCKS horse with perfect neigh

Watched on Sunday May 18, 2025.

i was so whatever about this going into it but it won me over almost immediately, that dick link CHARM. scratches that documentary now itch. love that the cannes audience reacted to each french new wave director appearance like it was a marvel movie. i’ll bite, i left inspired

Watched on Saturday May 17, 2025.

we must be doing something right to last 200 years

massive flick

sweetest way to kick off the cannes trip

Watched on Monday May 12, 2025.

this meant everything to me

jesse pinkman :))

too cool to be a bad movie honestly

Watched on Saturday May 3, 2025.

lee marvin i love you dog

Watched on Thursday May 1, 2025.

Watched on Wednesday April 30, 2025.

Watched on Monday April 28, 2025.

surprised this isn’t talked about more often as one of spike lee’s essentials. incredibly layered, his most expressionistic from what i’ve seen, and a bit of a sampler platter for him as a filmmaker. thought ray allen was actually outstanding, thought the milla jovovich stuff was a total drag

Watched on Thursday April 24, 2025.

a slap in the face

Watched on Tuesday April 22, 2025.

Watched on Sunday April 20, 2025.

Watched on Saturday April 19, 2025.

Watched on Thursday April 17, 2025.

Watched on Wednesday April 16, 2025.

you gotta watch it with subtitles to see [Handjob burps] on screen

Watched on Friday April 4, 2025.

i gotta get a real job man

Watched on Thursday April 3, 2025.

in some ways it was a good movie to watch at 5am

My top 100 favorite films that will change probably all the time. First 4 are in order but the rest is a shitshow.

• Nashville
• PlayTime
• Fantastic Mr. Fox
• The Heartbreak Kid
• Wendy and Lucy
• Climax
• Tokyo Story
• Smiley Face
• The Long Goodbye
• Fargo

...plus 90 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Nickel Boys
2. Challengers
3. Dune: Part Two
4. The Brutalist
5. Evil Does Not Exist
6. A Real Pain
7. No Other Land
8. The Substance
9. Between the Temples
10. Anora

...plus 58 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• We Need to Talk About Kevin
• We Bought a Zoo
• Around the World in Eighty Days
• How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
• I'm Thinking of Ending Things
• This Is the End
• Why Did I Get Married?
• What We Do in the Shadows
• How to Blow Up a Pipeline
• The Worst Person in the World

...plus 5 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. The Godfather

   Obama

2. It's a Wonderful Life

   Raegan

3. My Darling Clementine

   Truman

4. Citizen Kane

   Trump

5. Home Alone

   Ford

6. High Noon

   Clinton
   Eisenhower

7. The Searchers

   Johnson

8. Patton

   Nixon

9. Dr. No

   JFK

10. Field of Dreams

    W Bush

...plus 3 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. May December
2. Killers of the Flower Moon
3. ages
4. The Zone of Interest
5. Poor Things
6. Fallen Leaves
7. Oppenheimer
8. Perfect Days
9. Showing Up
10. The Boy and the Heron

...plus 77 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. The Beguiled
2. Somewhere
3. Priscilla
4. Lost in Translation
5. The Bling Ring
6. Marie Antoinette
7. The Virgin Suicides
8. On the Rocks

• Wendy and Lucy
• Old Joy
• Certain Women
• Showing Up
• First Cow

1. Videodrome
2. Crash
3. Crimes of the Future
4. The Fly
5. Eastern Promises
6. Scanners

1. Infinity Pool
2. Rye Lane
3. Theater Camp
4. Fancy Dance
5. Last Things
6. Cat Person
7. Fairyland
8. Polite Society
9. Jamojaya
10. Run Rabbit Run

...plus 2 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Aftersun
2. Decision to Leave
3. Nope
4. TÁR
5. The Banshees of Inisherin
6. Babylon
7. We're All Going to the World's Fair
8. The Fabelmans
9. All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
10. Top Gun: Maverick

...plus 58 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

my top 10 sight and sound list nobody asked for

• PlayTime
• Spirited Away
• Yi Yi
• Do the Right Thing
• The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
• Fallen Angels
• Pink Flamingos
• The Thing
• The Red Shoes
• All That Jazz

• Woman in the Dunes
• Multiple Maniacs
• Kwaidan
• The Love Witch
• Elvira: Mistress of the Dark
• The Blob
• Child's Play
• A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night
• Tenebre
• Christine

...plus 24 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

horror recs for the season

• Mandy
• Black Christmas
• Climax
• Scream
• Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
• Evil Dead II
• Titane
• Onibaba
• Eyes Without a Face
• The Thing

...plus 13 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

This will change monthly, probably. Notes attached to each film.

1. First Reformed

   Like being hit by a giant wave in the ocean. An experience that'll take a moment to absorb and something I still haven't recovered from. Perhaps something I never will recover from. Influential from a filmmaking perspective, impactful on s deeply personal level. One of the most powerful and necessary pieces of film I've ever experienced.

2. Parasite
3. Climax
4. Moonlight

   This last decade I fell in love with film deeper than I ever had before, and I owe Moonlight for a lot of this. Not only through it's flawless script did I find myself emotionally connecting to a life so distant from mine, but it's approach stylistically gave me an indescribable yet nostalgic feeling I haven't found anywhere else.

5. Marriage Story

   Realest thing I've seen this decade.

6. Melancholia

   This helped me understand myself and everyone around me in the most obnoxious way possible. Wouldn't have it any other way.

7. Paterson

   I don’t know how I forgot this one while putting this list together. I’ll add some stuff to say about it later!

8. Whiplash

   Similar to Moonlight, one of the most perfect pieces of work to come out of the last decade. A film that feels like it knows everything about the artistic experience which is ironic considering how young Chazelle was when he made it. I'll be talking about it for years, a classic.

9. The Tree of Life

   I really don't want to write about The Tree of Life. In fact, I never want to write about The Tree of Life. This hit something inside of me, it understood something very personal. I want to be fragile with this film, I will not be watching it very often, maybe never again. It feels irresponsible to try and understand all of it.

10. Lady Bird

    As a film, it may not be as ground-breaking or as complex as the rest of the work on this list, but this film meant so much to me when it initially came out. I am extremely lucky that this film exists in my life.

• First Reformed
• Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
• Blue Collar
• Hardcore
• Cat People
• The Card Counter

my favorite comedies

• PlayTime
• Airplane!
• The Hot Rock
• Greener Grass
• The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!
• After Hours
• A Mighty Wind
• This Is Spinal Tap
• Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping
• Mystery Train

...plus 23 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Broker
• One Fine Morning
• The Inspection
• Prisoner's Daughter
• Weird: The Al Yankovic Story
• Bros
• Women Talking
• Susie Searches
• Glass Onion
• The Fabelmans

...plus 6 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Smiley Face
• Mysterious Skin
• Nowhere
• The Living End
• Totally F***ed Up
• Kaboom

• BoxBallet
• Robin Robin
• The Windshield Wiper
• Affairs of the Art
• Beast

let’s a go

1. Titane
2. Red Rocket
3. The Worst Person in the World
4. The Power of the Dog
5. The French Dispatch
6. Petite Maman
7. Annette
8. Drive My Car
9. Mad God
10. El Planeta

...plus 51 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

theyre all pretty great

• The Long Goodbye
• Nashville
• The Player
• California Split
• McCabe & Mrs. Miller

this'll upset a lot of you and i'm SORRY ABOUT THAT

1. Rear Window
2. Vertigo
3. The 39 Steps
4. Psycho
5. Rope
6. North by Northwest
7. The Birds
8. The Trouble with Harry

• Onibaba
• The Cremator
• Dressed to Kill
• Candyman
• White Dog
• Red Eye
• Deep Red
• Belladonna of Sadness
• The Fog
• Ju-on: The Grudge

...plus 21 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Ratatouille
2. The Incredibles
3. Finding Nemo
4. WALL·E
5. Up
6. Toy Story
7. Monsters, Inc.
8. Toy Story 4
9. Toy Story 2
10. Coco

...plus 10 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. The King of Comedy
2. After Hours
3. The Wolf of Wall Street
4. The Last Temptation of Christ
5. Taxi Driver
6. Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
7. The Irishman
8. GoodFellas
9. The Departed
10. Bringing Out the Dead

...plus 13 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

oh boy

1. Kajillionaire
2. Another Round
3. Nomadland
4. Never Rarely Sometimes Always
5. I'm Thinking of Ending Things
6. Lovers Rock
7. Wolfwalkers
8. Soul
9. Shiva Baby
10. Minari

...plus 49 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

they’re pretty much all good lol

1. Inside Llewyn Davis
2. Fargo
3. Burn After Reading
4. No Country for Old Men
5. Blood Simple
6. A Serious Man
7. O Brother, Where Art Thou?
8. The Big Lebowski
9. Barton Fink
10. The Ballad of Buster Scruggs

...plus 2 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Paterson
2. Mystery Train
3. Night on Earth
4. Only Lovers Left Alive
5. Stranger Than Paradise
6. Dead Man
7. Down by Law
8. Coffee and Cigarettes
9. The Dead Don't Die

1. Before Sunset
2. Before Sunrise
3. School of Rock
4. Bernie
5. Boyhood
6. Before Midnight
7. Dazed and Confused
8. Bad News Bears
9. Where'd You Go, Bernadette

1. Marriage Story
2. Climax
3. Parasite
4. Portrait of a Lady on Fire
5. The Lighthouse
6. Greener Grass
7. Uncut Gems
8. Little Women
9. Pain and Glory
10. Sorry We Missed You

...plus 64 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. First Reformed
2. Roma
3. Eighth Grade
4. The Favourite
5. At Eternity's Gate
6. Mandy
7. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
8. If Beale Street Could Talk
9. First Man
10. Shoplifters

...plus 58 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

This is a random assortment of horror flicks I haven’t seen that I’m gonna try and watch this October! No I’m not taking suggestions.

• The Skin I Live In
• Night of the Living Dead
• The Evil Dead
• Evil Dead II
• Trouble Every Day
• The Slumber Party Massacre
• Candyman
• Red Eye
• Ju-on: The Grudge
• Inferno

...plus 22 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Autumn Sonata
2. The Seventh Seal
3. Persona
4. Winter Light

• Do the Right Thing
• BlacKkKlansman
• Da 5 Bloods
• She's Gotta Have It

1. Tour de Pharmacy
2. 7 Days in Hell
3. The Lonely Island Presents: The Unauthorized Bash Brothers Experience

in progress

1. Parasite
2. The Host
3. Mother
4. Memories of Murder
5. Okja
6. Snowpiercer
7. Barking Dogs Never Bite

• Stuart Little 2

starting at 1940

• Fantasia
• Citizen Kane
• Casablanca
• It's a Wonderful Life
• Rope
• Rashomon
• Singin' in the Rain
• Rear Window
• Bigger Than Life
• 12 Angry Men

...plus 61 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• PlayTime
• Mon Oncle
• Parade
• Trafic
• Jour de Fête
• School for Postmen
• Monsieur Hulot's Holiday

1. Marriage Story
2. s Ha
3. The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)
4. Kicking and Screaming
5. Mistress America
6. The Squid and the Whale
7. While We're Young

some stuff to hopefully take your mind off things right now :)

• Rear Window
• PlayTime
• Modern Times
• The King of Comedy
• Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping
• Crumb
• The Lighthouse
• Yi Yi
• Barry Lyndon
• Greener Grass

...plus 58 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Fantastic Mr. Fox
• The Royal Tenenbaums
• The Grand Budapest Hotel
• The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
• Rushmore
• Isle of Dogs
• Bottle Rocket
• The Darjeeling Limited
• Moonrise Kingdom

she’s really out here tying those laces!!!

• Marriage Story
• Jojo Rabbit

Everything I am seeing. PROBABLY GONNA CHANGE WITH TRADING!

• Parasite
• Portrait of a Lady on Fire
• Waves
• The Climb
• The Lighthouse
• Knives Out
• Color Out of Space
• A Hidden Life
• The Truth
• Jojo Rabbit

...plus 4 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Reservoir Dogs
• Pulp Fiction
• Death Proof
• Kill Bill: Vol. 1
• Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
• Inglourious Basterds
• Django Unchained
• Jackie Brown
• Kill Bill: Vol. 2
• The Hateful Eight

Annual summer movie challenge where I try to watch a lot of classic movies that I have not yet seen. This year I’m cutting the goal in half just because I will actually have a life this summer and am definitely not going to be able to watch 100 movies. Here is the current list, it will obviously shift and change as time goes on because I’ll probably see a lot of new releases in theatres that I wasn’t expecting to see. (not ranked)

• Alien
• The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
• High and Low
• Solaris
• Bronson
• Tokyo Story
• North by Northwest
• Prisoners
• The Departed
• Green Room

...plus 40 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Drive
• The Neon Demon
• Bronson
• Only God Forgives

1. The Lighthouse
2. Sorry We Missed You
3. Les Misérables
4. Lux Æterna
5. First Love
6. Nina Wu
7. Little Joe
8. Beanpole
9. Atlantics
10. Port Authority

An ongoing list of movies that had a significant impact on how I view filmmaking as well as how I look at the world in general.

• Enter the Void
• Three Colours: Blue
• Anomalisa
• Yi Yi
• American Beauty
• Requiem for a Dream
• The Tree of Life
• mother!
• Adaptation.
• 2001: A Space Odyssey

...plus 37 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Climax
• Enter the Void
• Love
• Irreversible