Beautiful and mesmerizing.
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Nosferatu (2024)
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How Democracies Die (Steven Levitsky, 2018)
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The Quilting Cruise (Mary Devlin Lynch, 2020)
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Reading this for #372Pages
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Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992)
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I still love this movie, a real treat to see it on 35.
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Anora (2024)
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I almost really enjoyed this, but it was at least half an hour too long.
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The Vegetarian (Han Kang, 2007)
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Heretic (2024)
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Pumping Iron II: The Women (1985)
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Frankenhooker (1990)
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In the Mouth of Madness (1995)
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Kill, Baby… Kill! (1966)
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Train to Busan (2016)
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Oculus (2013)
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Tenebre (1982)
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The Outwaters (2023)
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Found footage cosmic horror? I really admire the attempt but there’s not a lot here.
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Stopmotion (2024)
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Polyester (1981)
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Noroi: The Curse (2005)
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dir. Koji Shiraishi
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Possum (2018)
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dir. Matthew Holness
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The Innkeepers (2011)
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Terrifier (2018)
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Oddity (2024)
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A Dark Song (2016)
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Friday the 13th (1980)
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House on Haunted Hill (1959)
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Saw this “in Emergo”! (They wriggled a plastic skeleton along a length of rope strung across the screen.)
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Shaun of the Dead (2004)
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Mistborn (Brandon Sanderson, 2006)
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The Substance (2024)
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Hackers (1995)
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Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (2024)
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The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999)
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Point Break (1991)
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Longlegs (2024)
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What? This was way too convoluted. Spoilers ahead.
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MaXXXine (2024)
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Body Double (1984)
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Sheer smut!
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Jagged Edge (1985)
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A gripping, precisely executed legal thriller. Glenn Close is brilliant. Why had I never heard of this??
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While the City Sleeps (1956)
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Dracula (1931)
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Desperately Seeking Susan (1985)
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Saw this on 35mm with director Susan Seidelman in person!
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The Vourdalak (2023)
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Lincoln in the Bardo (George Saunders, 2017)
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I didn’t care for this. Read for a book club.
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Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person (2023)
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Cute. A more whimsical “Let the Right One In.”
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The Beast (2023)
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Yes, those are clips from Harmony Korine’s “Trash Humpers” in there.
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In the Line of Fire (1993)
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We were told by the program director for this theater’s 70mm festival that there were probably a total of six 70mm prints of this movie struck, and that this one in particular has been sitting unplayed in a corner at Sony somewhere. As a result it was in near-perfect condition.
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Maggie O’Farrell – The Distance Between Us (2024)
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Grand Prix (1966)
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Saw this on an original 35mm print that was so faded, it was basically monochrome magenta-and-black. R.I.P. François Hardy.
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The Tingler (1959)
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Suitable Flesh (2023)
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Featured on “The Last Drive-in.” Lousy film.
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Codeine – Dessau (Numero, 2022)
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Nobody sounds quite like Codeine.
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The Pit and the Pendulum (1961)
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Caught this on Svengoolie.
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Run Lola Run (1998)
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Seen this half a dozen times, but never in the theater, and brought a friend who had never seen it.
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Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
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Caught this on 70mm, part of the same 70mm/widescreen program that I first saw it at last year. It’s long, but it’s so beautiful that it’s a breeze to just kick back and luxuriate in.
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The Professionals (1966)
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Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024)
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Great flick! I have some thoughts.
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A Thousand Ships (Natalie Haynes, 2021)
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Various – Soft Summer Breezes (2024)
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Like a parallel timeline where the lesser-known peers of Herman’s Hermits, Gerry & the Pacemakers, and Peter & Gordon had similar staying power. God bless Numero.
You can download the MP3s from Boomkat.
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Chinatown (1974)
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Fifty years later, still the best movie about municipal water systems and real estate fraud.
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The Orchids – Striving for the Lazy Perfection (Sarah, 1994)
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I forgot how much I used to listen to this record fifteen years ago.
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The Hunt for Red October (1990)
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If you were to score this on some kind of Bechdel scale, it might come back `NaN`.
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The Window (1949)
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The scene with the key and the coat hanger! Absolutely chilling.
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Masters of the Universe (1987)
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Suffice it to say I was not expecting to see a laser shoot-out in front of an H&R Block.
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Immaculate (2024)
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A dopey premise with a lousy script.
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The Boy and the Heron (2023)
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Dark Passage (1947)
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Trippy!
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The Autopsy of Jane Doe (2016)
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I also saw this in the theater when it came out, and had about the same impression this time. The slow unraveling of the mystery in the first two acts is great; the final act dropped all the cleverness in favor of ghastly jump scares. Which is fine enough!, but meant that it felt like all the stuff it had going for it in the beginning just kind of petered out.
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Days of Heaven (1978)
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The brownest movie I’ve ever seen. Four stars.
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Riddle of Fire (2024)
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I can’t overstate how much I adored this movie. It’s like watching a magic trick. There are so many ways it could have gone awry — tonally, stylistically — but it never does.
It’s one of those movies you would expect to walk away from thinking, “I see what they were going for, but they just didn’t pull it off.”
Riddle of Fire pulls it off.
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The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)
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I’d never seen this movie before and I have to admit I had no idea the title was a metaphor. I had pictured a Hitchcock-like twist where a number of rings is the giveaway to some clue. Nope!
Saw this on 35mm which is always a treat. Lots of surprising unpredictable twists to the story. Hume Cronyn as the manipulative lawyer Keats was great.
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Nathair – Gilera (2023)
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I have to resist making excuses for this. Yes I love this because it sounds like it was recorded in a basement, OK?
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Arthur (1981)
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What can you say about “Arthur”?
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Nowhere (1997)
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This movie blew my mind. I’m embarrassed not to have heard of Gregg Araki. It has 44% on Rotten Tomatoes, which is…maybe understandable? But I can’t recommend it enough.
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The Fall Guy (2024)
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This was fun. I can’t help but love Ryan Gosling (“The Goz”). Some good laughs, though the story was a bit convoluted and messy and the romantic tension not entirely earned.
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Perfect Days (2023)
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13 Ghosts (1960)
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Caught this on Svengoolie.
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Dune: Part Two (2024)
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I just can’t get terribly worked up about these movies. This was fine. I’m just not sure the Dune books benefit from being put onto a screen.
Chalamet is adequate, but he’s distractingly beautiful and his face just doesn’t scream “inner turmoil” to me.
Also for as long as this movie was, it still felt kind of rushed, cramming in all the necessary plot points.
I’ve never been like a “Dune guy” but I for sure enjoyed the book more. I’ll have to read “Messiah” before that movie comes out now.
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Shira Small – The Line of Time and the Plane of Now (1974)
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I love this! I’ve been listening to it all week. This is “outsider music” but is by no means best enjoyed ironically. Some great stuff in here, and such a time capsule of its era. You could try to make something that sounded like this today, but you’d fail.
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Tell Me an Ending (Jo Harkin, 2022)
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American Fiction (2023)
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Lace (Shirley Conran, 1982)
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The Hacienda (Isabel Cañas, 2022)
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Silver Nitrate (Silvia Moreno-Garcia, 2023)
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I was intrigued by this Lovecraftian premise, but the execution didn’t quite work, I felt.