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HEDONIST

Los Angeles, California

About Me

I’m a twenty-four year-old film enthusiast, screenwriter, and critic.

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The Girls

Quite an austere use of the B&W medium -- more white and black if you ask me. I just got the feeling that the film stock was overexposed throughout the entire picture. Obviously, this was intentional -- suggesting what thematically? That is my question. Women are more pure than men? Not sure. Lovely to see many of the most popular female members of the Bergman troupe get together on screen sans Bergman. Charming.

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American Movie

Terminator 2: Judgment Day

The Nightmare Before Christmas

The Leopard

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Style

Auteur-driven
Melancholy
Fashionable alienation
Deliriously surreal
Canonical classics
High Art
Vanguard cinema
Neorealist
Avant-garde

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odilonvert

asuraf

Robert Regan

Kenji

PolarisDiB

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Zachary George Najarian-Najafi

23Feb12

I have to commend you for your excellent reviews! Your write ups on Bergman are wonderful. By the way, which movies are those stills you've featured from? I recognize Through a Glass Darkly, but not the others.

HEDONIST

24Feb12

Thanks very much. The other two Bergman stills are both from 'Hour of the Wolf'.

ramosbarajas

1Feb12

I am currently working through Bergman's entire film ouvre, or at least the ones I can get my hands on. I just watched the Passion of Anna, I will be watching Shame, and I am getting Cries and Whispers from Netflix... I have seen almost every major film up to then... I love your Bergman write ups/ reviews... They are really helpful now that it seems Bergman is getting more metaphorical and deals with, as you called it in your reviews, "deconstruction, existentialism and personality disintegration." It is always great to see what other people think of the films, and Bergman is definitely worth a conversation.

HEDONIST

3Feb12

Thanks so much for your kind words, it is always nice to know people still read my write-ups that I've posted on here. Shame is one of my favorites. I hope you enjoy it.

odilonvert

3Jun11

Hello fellow Angeleno! And thanks for the follow. Next time we have an Mubi/Garage Angeleno get together here (we had our first back in April), you must come! :)

HEDONIST

4Jun11

Hello there. No problem. I was quite intrigued by your short films so I thought I'd add you to my list. As for the Mubi Angeleno get-together, I have to say that sounds quite interesting -- I'll definitely look into it. Cheers.
odilonvert

4Jun11

Wow thanks! I think we're aiming for something in the summer this one coming up next, see a movie and talk about it afterward. Our first get together was in a bar, fun and rowdy! And, one of the aims is eventually to find a place to screen films from Mubians and Garage members, but we have yet to coordinate that. If you think of any place, please let me know!
HEDONIST

7Jun11

I hope you guys manage to get that figured out. It certainly sounds like an amazing idea. I'll let you know if I think of anything.