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  • Cluny Brown
  • Carolyn and Me
  • Sea of Glass
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  • Mystic River

    ★★½

  • Disclosure Day

    ★★★★

  • The One Romantic Venture of Edward

    ★★★

  • Becoming Opaque

    ★★★

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April
★★★★★ Liked Rewatched

i came up from under the ocean, evaporated sea salt water, a mist above the skyline. i haunt the streets of san francisco, watching over loved ones and old friends. i see them through their living room windows, shaken by fear and worries; i want them to know how i love them so.

foghorns would sound in waking. is it my voice you hear? footsteps are moving across the floor, and you know i'm here. the afternoon carries up from…

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In Spite of Hell
★★★★½ Watched

favorite mlp film so far. i was tempted to say it sees the world the way i do but that is my natural inclination toward vanity stealing its grace. a better way to explain is it sees with the eyes i wish i had.

The Tree, the Mayor and the Mediatheque
★★★★½ Rewatched

wherever one places rohmer on the political spectrum it is clear that he understood the left as a conservative would. this is why a rohmer film that came in the same year as a crushing socialist defeat is his sharpest lesson on why we lose. the language by which the progressive platform spoke had become so aestheticized that it was a practical authority that no longer felt the need to justify its goodness. 2026 is of course a mirror embarrassment.…

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Neighbours
★★★★½ Liked Rewatched

private property is the root of all evil.