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I watched 103 films last year and here are my top 35 favorites in no particular order excluding the lone wolf and cub film series, enjoy. 🔥😎🎥🎞️💙 @letterboxd
its so crazy that for the last 5 years a small but annoyingly vocal online group has been acting like mob movies of all things are pretentious and inaccessible cinema. yeah the godfather is kinda slow but these are movies about criminals who shoot people
Tagged by @miss--river, @starsandskies, and @arcandoria, here are my 9 fave films listed in approximate biological order. Tags and rambling about film after the cut.
Tagging with no pressure (and sorry if you’ve already been tagged!): @smilepal, @drunkchasind, @impishbiscuit, @breezypunk, @beammeupbroadway
I love talking about movies so feel free to ignore this. Picking nine movies was really hard!! I’ve seen a ridiculous number and there are so many that I love, plus so many incredible pieces of art that I really like. At first it was difficult to reach nine, and once I did I realized there were some real favorites missing.
I’ve had dozens of “favorite movie” movies over the years, and some of the ones I considered fall into that category—Casablanca, The Empire Strikes Back, Labyrinth, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, The Lion King, In the Mood for Love—but they haven’t necessarily carried over into all-time fave status. So I swapped some more out and came up with nine movies that really meant something to me.
Then I realized all the movies were from last century, which is silly now that we’re 20 years into the “new” one, and I know I have some newer faves. I haven’t been as into movies and with less time passed, I don’t know which ones will survive the test into long term faves. I managed to find two.
Skyfall was an easy one. I watched the whole Bond series start to finish minimum three times before Daniel Craig took the role, and I’ve watched his movies at least that much. Skyfall is an incredible piece of cinema, and cemented Daniel Craig as Bond for me.
Tenet was much harder pick, but it’s a movie that I have spent a lot of time thinking about and considering. I’m a huge Christopher Nolan fan and I considered others of his for the list, but this is some of his best work.
Ballister is everything I want in a canonically gay character. Pathetic. Silly. Accidental adoptive father. Traumatized. Has a boyfriend who chopped his arm off. Wet cat energy. He’s got it all.
its so mortifying and frustrating that the crew of spiderverse were so overworked. by people who didnt understand the sheer work and effort that goes into all parts of the pipeline. but a new generation of artists are seeing the concept art, and going, “i want to do this too!” getting to see the release of so much behind the scenes work makes me want to do things like this. i aspire to this. but i dont want to have to deal with the death of creativity in the form of constant reworking. i couldn’t watch coworkers leave because of how stressful it becomes.
i hope the crew knows just how many artists walked into that theater, and then walked out going, “i want to make art as thoughtful as this. i want to make art as genuine as this. i want to make art with this much love in it. i want to do this too.”