3 things about Josh Safdie’s MARTY SUPREME

Marty Supreme [2025]

1. Handcuffed wearing a towel.
2. “I’m Hitler’s worst nightmare.”
3. A stack of dirty pictures with a couple real bills on top.

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3 things about Béla Ternovszky’s CAT CITY

Cat City [1986]

1. A music video promo for the 4 Gangsters.
2. From kimono to hang-glider.
3. Double-pleated slacks on a mouse.

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3 things about Jack Conway’s LOVE CRAZY

Love Crazy [1941]

1. Willoughby, Ward Willoughby.
2. Boob spindle.
3. “I don’t know what he expects to gain by acting like an idiot.”
“Isn’t he always like that?”

3 other things.

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3 things about Lynne Ramsay’s DIE MY LOVE

Die My Love [2025]

1. “I know it’s not New York, but it’s ours.”
2. Sleepwalking with a rifle.
3. An imaginary performance of “The Beast in Me.”

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3 things about Harold Clurman’s DEADLINE AT DAWN

Deadline at Dawn [1946]

1. Non compos mentis.
2. “If she cut off her head, she’d be very pretty.”
3. Too late to save his cat, his soulmate.

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A selected inventory of 2025.

By the numbers …

215: feature films I watched in 2025 (35 of which I viewed in a theater)
42: books I read in 2025
21: pizzas we ordered from The Art of Pizza
21: pizzas we ordered from Tortorice’s
2: pizzas we ordered from other pizzerias
110: mystery green statistic

Happy New Year!

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3 things about Bai Gan’s RESURRECTION

Resurrection [2025]

1. Melting theatre.
2. Peeing on the Buddha.
3. Hanging upside down on New Year’s Eve, 1999.

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What I Watched in 2025: My 10 Favorite Films

BLACK BAG [2025, directed by Steven Soderbergh]
THE BRUTALIST [2025, directed by Brady Corbet]
HIS THREE DAUGHTERS [2023, directed by Azazel Jacobs]
HOME BEFORE DARK [1958, directed by Mervyn LeRoy]
I’M NO LONGER HERE [2019, directed by Luis Fernando Frías de la Parra]
IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT [2025, directed by Jafar Panahi]
ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER [2025, directed by Paul Thomas Anderson]
SECRET MALL APARTMENT [2024, directed by Jeremy Workman]
THE TERRITORY [2022, directed by Alex Pritz]
WOMAN OF THE HOUR [2023, directed by Anna Kendrick]

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3 things about Anthony Harvey’s THE LION IN WINTER

The Lion in Winter [1968]

1. Candle clocks.
2. “The day those stout hearts band together is the day that pigs get wings.”
“There’ll be pork in the treetops come morning.”
3. She encourages her to try on the crown for size.

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ROB’S BEST OF 2025

Not necessarily released in 2025, these were nevertheless some of the songs I listened to all year long: a personal time capsule of the past twelve months. Enjoy.

https://tidal.com/playlist/2cbef9ec-b5d2-4e32-a095-4543f1c81041

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