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HEDONIST

Los Angeles, California

About Me

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

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Whores' Glory

A glimpse into a hidden world, unveiling the emotion and humanism of the often objectified working women spanning across various countries. The camera, often stood by, like an outside observer, an omniscient presence, that did not seem to deter the subjects from acting naturally. Glawogger is skillfully able to extract an uncanny verisimilitude with his film, not condoning or condemning, allowing the viewer to decide

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Boogie Nights

Pumping Iron

Sunset Boulevard

Swingers

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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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Adam Suraf

Robert Regan

Kenji

PolarisDiB

La Schiff

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Ben Wheeler

7Aug12

No go on "Jane Eyre"? I thought it was fantastic. What didn't work for you?

HEDONIST

15Aug12

Perhaps I was a bit too harsh. It was beautifully shot and captured -- the landscapes were amazing... Be that as it may, I found it horribly slow -- intentionally so I suppose ... and for whatever it is worth I just didn't find Mia Wasikowska's performance moving. Fassbender was uniquely forgettable. Last but not least I found that some important details were missing from the book -- not uncommon for literary adaptations but I just wasn't too impressed in the end of it all.

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.