Martinaevaeva

Martinaevaeva

ohno! it does not move me
even though i've seen the movie

Favorite films

  • Romancing in Thin Air
  • Housekeeping
  • First Name: Carmen
  • Babe: Pig in the City

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  • A Real Pain

    ★★½

  • 36 Fillette

    ★★★

  • The Fall of Communism as Seen in Gay Pornography

    ★★★★

  • I Come with the Rain

    ★★★★½

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  • A Brighter Tomorrow

    A Brighter Tomorrow

    ★★½

    if you create a caricature of a dumb action director (who represents dumb idiot society) to lecture with your alter ego director, and in said lecture you start talking about shit like "the dignified way in which krzysztoff kieslowski shoots violence" then you are basically mort rifkin to me. "aren't communists from russia?" i always wonder what happens when people like moretti or allen interact with people at least a little more involved with politics or film than the characters…

  • Yang ± Yin: Gender in Chinese Cinema

    Yang ± Yin: Gender in Chinese Cinema

    ★★★★

    chang cheh starts his interview with kwan by saying "at the time, chinese cinema was unique in the world. no other film industry gave top billing to women. even ingrid bergman got second billing!" and you think "oh, he's highlighting how nice that was!" and then he stops for a second and says "i thought that was weird. that's why i set out to make very masculine films".

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  • I'm Thinking of Ending Things

    I'm Thinking of Ending Things

    ½

    This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

    reddit miserabilism, peak incel cinema, third feature and kaufman still can't direct to save his life, his idea of horror is making vaguely mentally ill characters scream a lot in rural areas, when a character forgets where they are multiple times in a scene then that's comedy and when they say they hear voices that's supposed to build tension, the montage looks like a papa johns commercial, the netflix a24 algorithm has now spread all over the world and it…

  • Mank

    Mank

    ★½

    if you search "classic hollywood" in netflix it redirects you to forrest gump.

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