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3 things about Fernando Frias’s I’M NO LONGER HERE

Posted on August 12, 2025 by robchristopher

I’m No Longer Here [2019] 1. “When it’s slower, you feel it more.” 2. Huffing fumes from a repurposed water bottle. 3. Diagonal streets converging in the center of the frame.

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3 things about Luis Buñuel’s EL (THIS STRANGE PASSION)

Posted on August 1, 2024 by robchristopher

El [1953] 1. A tableaux of unwashed feet. 2. He says, “We’ll do anything you like,” then proceeds to veto her every suggestion. 3. “Few men possess so keen a sense of justice as I.” Another of Buñuel’s unjustly neglected … Continue reading →

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3 things about Álex de la Iglesia’s PERDITA DURANGO

Posted on October 27, 2023 by robchristopher

Perdita Durango [1997] 1. Buying a Herb Alpert CD at a border crossing gift shop. 2. One agent hands the fetus to another agent and says, “See that this child gets a decent burial.” 3. James Gandolfini becomes Gary Cooper.

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3 things about Alfonso Cuarón’s Y TU MAMA TAMBIEN

Posted on August 9, 2020 by robchristopher

Y Tu Mamá También [2001] 1. Big butts. 2. Running out of batteries during Brian Eno. 3. Shrimp soup and a beer for breakfast.

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