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Favorite films

  • 3 Women
  • Soundtrack to a Coup d'État
  • Speed Racer
  • Brief Encounter

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  • Hollywood Shuffle

    ★★★½

  • Garlic Is as Good as Ten Mothers

  • Spend It All

  • Gap-Toothed Women

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  • The Green Ray

    The Green Ray

    ★★★★★

    As I stood up and tried to conceal how much of the last hour and a half I'd spent sobbing, I overheard someone say to their friend "I had to stab myself over and over to stay awake."

    I love the movies.

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  • Hollywood Shuffle

    Hollywood Shuffle

    ★★★½

    “I can do it in iambic!”

    give me 10 more hours of Sam Ace, PI please

  • Spend It All

    Spend It All

    a fine addition to the LBTEU (Les Blank Teeth Extended Universe)

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  • Captain Ahab: The Story of Dave Stieb

    Captain Ahab: The Story of Dave Stieb

    shed real tears when that beautiful blue beacon shot up into the sky

  • Dream Team

    Dream Team

    ★★★★

    not sure what I expected but it sure wasn’t this.

    what if David Lynch was an internet-addled millennial LA hipster and made Twin Peaks for Abso Lutely instead of ABC? what if every cop was a hot bisexual primarily occupied with mindfulness, dream interpretation, and getting to the bottom of climate change? what if—and this is where I started to genuinely wonder if this movie had somehow been harvested directly from my subconscious—we abolished professional basketball team owners?

    the answer…