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JakeAesthete
Cinema Addict - 1805 Films Ranked
Member Since: Jun 13, 2008
Location: portland, oregon, USA
Recent Rankings
89 T9 Upstream Color (2013) - May 20, 2013
"I feel like i'm going to have to watch this at least a few more times before i can even begin to wrap my head around it (and not necessarily even in the same sense as in Primer), but one thing i feel vaguely certain of is that Carruth is probably the bravest and brightest new-ish filmmaker in America and possibly also our nuttiest. The Malick comparisons are quite valid, if Malick was steeped in science fiction rather than Heidegger and Catholicism."
69 T7 Primer (2004) - May 19, 2013
"More "cinematic" than i was expecting (yes there is a lot of talking but Carruth is clearly aware of aesthetics as well), and quite impressive considering the budget. But yeah, it's confusing as hell."
56 T5 The Future (2011) - May 12, 2013
"Largely insufferable but perversely brave and at times affecting. If July's debut felt quirky-by-numbers this feels bizarrely personal and very, very dark (if still very forced). A eulogy for millennial tweeness in all it's awfulness. "
70 T7 Manhattan (1979) - May 06, 2013
"Often overbearingly obnoxious, but i have to admit a lot of it hit painfully close to home. Also it's quite nicely shot which helped."
74 T7 Photographic Memory (2011) - May 03, 2013
"In which McElwee grapples with his latent fogey-ism and does an admirable job of it. Also his son really does seem like kind of a douche."
99 T10 To the Wonder (2013) - Apr 27, 2013
"In many ways possibly Malick's greatest film, and a reassuring step back from the precipice of borderline-pretentiousness he was skirting in Tree of Life. This is by far his sparest and most distilled work (but "simple" only in the sense that human emotions are simple), and nearly perfect. Unfortunately i have to admit that Javier Bardem's character felt ultimately superfluous and heavy-handed in relation to the rest of the film. "
65 T6 The Loneliest Planet (2012) - Apr 21, 2013
"Much like Loktev's debut Day Night Day Night there is a lot to admire here and clear talent on display, however something ultimately prevents the film from reaching the truly impressive heights it obviously aims for. Perhaps it is a case of there simply not being enough actually "there" (although at the same time it seems practically the film's point that "nothing happens" but at the same time it "says everything" which is always a neat idea but hardly, if ever, actually works)."
77 T7 Spring Breakers (2013) - Mar 28, 2013
"Well, it's easily the closest Korine has come to a proper "come back" since his premature extended hiatus. That said, just exactly who or what he has "come back" as is an altogether different, more difficult and troubling question. As much as Gummo or Trash Humpers, this is a film that left me deeply confused about what i'd just seen, but for almost entirely different reasons. If it had been a reunion between Korine and Larry Clark i would have maybe been able to understand it a little better."
69 T7 Im Lauf der Zeit (1976) - Mar 05, 2013
"I'm somewhat torn about this one. Ultimately it has some genuinely incredible moments, but it takes at least half of it's bloated running time to get to any of them. Consequentially the film seems much better in retrospect than the sometimes tedious experience of watching it did. Surprisingly, much of it feels like a somewhat redundant thematic and aesthetic reiteration of what Wenders had already done in Alice in the Cities with perhaps a bit of foreshadowing of Paris Texas thrown in."
86 T8 Mammoth (2009) - Mar 04, 2013
"It's basically Moodysson doing Inarritu but i'm not complaining. Especially with Marcel Zyskind behind the camera."