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Twentynine Palms (2003, Bruno Dumont)
Earliest Dumont I’ve seen and my least favorite, which suddenly makes me hesitant about the two that just came out on Criterion. Also our second movie in a row with a girl peeing on camera. I’d heard...
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Animated Shorts watched Feb 2021
Never Like the First Time (2006, Jonas Odell) First-time sex stories. The participants seem youngish until the last guy tells a story set in the 1920’s. He and the first guy tell joyous stories of...
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Crash (1996, David Cronenberg)
Practically double-featured this with Exotica, another mid-90’s Canadian Elias Koteas sex thriller. James Spader is a commercial producer banging his camera girl, while his wife Deborah Kara Unger...
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Exotica (1994, Atom Egoyan)
One of those everyone-is-connected dramas, but with birds. Most of the birds are either fake/decorative, or an offscreen plot device (smuggled hyacinth macaw eggs) but it’s still appreciated....
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Tempting Devils (2018, Jean-Claude Brisseau)
AKA Let The Devil Take Us Away Young stranger Suzy meets blonde Camille who lives with Clara, not home yet, while the first two have a frank sex conversation one minute after meeting. This is...
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Great Freedom (2021, Sebastian Meise)
I was reading “At the Existentialist Café” on the train… Sartre put this principle into a three-word slogan, which for him defined existentialism: ‘Existence precedes essenceâ€. What this formula...
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Red Rocket (2021, Sean Baker)
Washed up porn star Mikey returns home defeated to his estranged wife Lexi and hangs at her mom Lil’s house in Texas while going on “job interviews.” He ends up selling weed for family friend Judy Hill...
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Toxic Roxy is young and blonde, frees buried criminal Kate Bush, who murders all Roxy’s friends then escapes, leaving the whole community angry at Roxy and her hairdresser mom. This all takes place on...
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Flux Gourmet (2022, Peter Strickland)
One of Strickland’s insular alternate-reality weirdo movies, about an artistic residency by a group of “sonic caterers,” is secretly a comedy about bandmate relationships. “I’d say misunderstanding...
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That Kind of Summer (2022, Denis Côté)
The first ten minutes are in extreme closeup, making up for the wide shots in Social Hygiene. Côté’s longest movie is a quiet character piece about a summer camp for sex addicts (it surely would’ve...
View ArticlePoor Things (2023, Yorgos Lanthimos)
It’s not shocking that I, a habitual enjoyer of Yorgos movies, greatly enjoyed the one where Emma Stone plays a grown woman with a baby brain raised by a chopped-and-sutured Willem Dafoe then taken...
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