Carlo

Carlo

Favorite films

  • All About Lily Chou-Chou
  • Inherent Vice
  • Barry Lyndon
  • Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters

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  • Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones

    ★★★★

  • Thief

  • Southland Tales

    ★★★★★

  • A Brighter Summer Day

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Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones
★★★★ Liked Watched

as a non Star Wars fan seeing this for the first time since I was a kid, I was blown away by this.

they gave George Lucas 115 million dollars for what was essentially an experiment being shot on brand new digital cinema cameras only ready one week before principal photography. All about Lily Chou Chou was shot on the same camera system and is also a testament to how incredible of a piece of technology they are. 

it’s not…

Thief
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When I was 12 I wanted to learn how to pick locks so my mom took me to a hardware store that has since burned down, where I proudly went up to the locksmith’s booth and told him what tools I wanted to buy. 

He laughed and said they are “illegal” for regular people to own and I tried arguing with him since I had seen a couple YouTube videos and knew he was bullshitting me. Maybe in England or…

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Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
★★★★★ Liked Watched

I viewed this as intended, drinking the four Stella Artois’ I bought from the Roxy Theater’s concession stand over the course of each vignette and becoming increasingly violent and  spurred to action as I went. The last two were warm when I got to them. 

By the end of the film, with a comfortable buzz, I wept at the deaths against the sunrise and only wished I could run through the bushwick irony bros that packed the theater with a…

Transformers
★★★★★ Liked Rewatched

The West’s blistering and masterful response to Neon Genesis Evangelion. In this master class on the human conditon and what it means to fight for your home world, filmmaker Michael Bay create a cinematic experience that will leave you wiping your bodily fluids off of your couch cushions and leaving your wife for a younger, more beautiful woman. Sam Witwicky puts Ikari Shinji to shame and Bumblebee would kick Unit-01’s ass.  

God bless America

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