Gabriel

Gabriel

Favorite films

  • Paris, Texas
  • Nashville
  • Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
  • Last Year at Marienbad

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  • Manhunter

    ★★★★★

  • Double Indemnity

    ★★★★★

  • Vicky Cristina Barcelona

    ★★★½

  • Shakespeare in Love

    ★★★★

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Dead Presidents
★★★★ Liked Watched

The Hughes Brothers deliver a terrific companion piece to Menace II Society with an involving, stylish crime drama on the residual effect of the Vietnam War on black veterans with stunning visuals, a sublime soundtrack (Isaac Hayes's Walk On By cover rips) and superb acting from especially Larenz Tate, N’Bushe Wright and Keith David.

Sirāt
★★★★½ Liked Watched

Oliver Laxe crafts a formally audacious, hypnotic and psychologically palpable road film where music, grief and guilt transcend language barriers and emotions are laid bare, fixed to its own startling rhythm and elevated by Kanding Ray's propulsive electronic score, remarkable sound design and terrific acting from especially Sergi López.

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Stop Making Sense
★★★★★ Liked Watched

Stop Making Sense is the best movie I saw this year and one I can see myself watching over and over again.

I've listened to Talking Heads before, but 2018 was the year I really got into them. It was also the year I discovered that they had made this movie and that David Byrne had directed True Stories, which I had the good fortune to watch on Filmstruck before it shut down. My favorite albums would be True Stories,…

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