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Favorite films

  • Wings of Desire
  • Koyaanisqatsi
  • In Bruges
  • PlayTime

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  • Hamlet 2

    ★★★½

  • I Swear

    ★★½

  • Knock at the Cabin

    ½

  • The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare

    ★★

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Hamlet 2
★★★½ Watched

fading memory means it's unclear to me if the race theme here is provocative (or if 2008 was just the wild west). Either way,

I Swear
★★½ Watched

I actually assumed this was a Ken Loach film, it's ripping him off so hard (gritty sentimentality, the sentimentality of the have-nots). But as it progressed I noticed it was missing the detail and internal logic that makes Loach films tolerable. This is just a series of applause lights.

You can say "it's awards bait gavin so what" but I don't think it's smart enough to be awards bait.

Despite the obscenity it's this
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My Dinner with Andre
★★★ Watched

The kind of film that would have gripped me at 16, because the two men were wiser than me. not anymore. Their entire conversation is exaggeration and self-gulling.

Andre is given 75+ minutes of monologue, and I just don't like or admire him enough for it to carry off.

The Findhorn bit is particularly telling (it's a hippie commune in Scotland, full of shite and richly funded by this kind of American). These men - these artists - are trying…