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beautiful ✅ delusional ✅ lost, and yet exactly where she needs to be ✅ wigs a mess ✅ egg ✅ feral friends there to her ✅ THAT’s miss philadelphia baby

thank GOD

charming! good middle of the day movie featuring a bunch of freaks and a bunch of meddling. i really liked the rhythm of this movie, the way new settings and characters and activities get introduced and then added into the cycles that we keep running through felt like life in a sweet way

“and then…… things got even more confusing.” 

six decades of the brits and americans misunderstanding literally everything about afghanistan so many times it makes your head spin

whenever i see a clip of margaret thatcher she looks like she’s seeing multiple layers of reality no one else around her can access 🦋 just floating through it all

Watched on Monday June 2, 2025.

served up piping hot

👍🏻

a new favorite. completely utterly delightful, no notes

upon rewatch i still found this funny and poignant and well acted but also much more tedious now that i’m less one of these people. juliet berto & jean-pierre leaud are two of my all time faves

fantastic

haven’t watched since i was 18 and i'm blown away

Watched on Wednesday May 21, 2025.

new jem cohen collection on criterion let’s go

Watched on Wednesday May 21, 2025.

not sure what to make of this one. i lost the thread pretty often on who was who and what was happening between whom and what the significance of a lot of it was. i like the melodrama and the lighting and the sets, of course it looks beautiful but it was also kind of long and tiring idk lots to say about the various moral degradation of the ruling class and the foundation of naziism but didn’t really pull me in very deep

“Well, thats just great Bob.”

i didn’t know de palma had it like that. this is a zany but surprisingly astute political and social knock knock joke that feels like it had to be a huge tip off for taxi driver. bobby looked amazing go figure!

completely nutso movie but damn every shot is incredible, one of the best looking movies i’ve seen in a long time. late 70s / early 80s movies that use green lighting >>

man fuck war

gary busey and kathy bates are my favorite dykes

i feel like i understand what they were going for with the tone here but it did NOT work i can’t believe i watched this whole movie but i just had to put it on at midnight and commit idk

balls to the wall farce for all who hate america 🫡delphine was so good in this?

not what i was expecting but i did really like watching it and it gave me a lot to chew on

points off for godard putting cuba, vietnam, and israel in the same sentence but this is the blueprint

icons only what a collection of performances

Watched on Thursday April 17, 2025.

gay logic

Watched on Saturday April 12, 2025.

i’ve seen like 15 hong sang soo movies so i know the drill by now but this one felt like a horror movie. twin peaks the return vibes

i’m a sucker for good archival footage and this is some of the most beautiful i’ve ever seen 🥲

not good, story and comedy is a mess. however there is something really special about watching early films that feel like experimental films at their core because the conventions had simply not been set yet. there were lots of weird cool strange surreal shots and moments in this that dare i say felt Lynchian at times. there was also ONE shot at the beginning of this movie that felt like it came out of a Hal Ashby or Altman film, so strangely modern

i thought this rocked hard, i’ve never seen a japanese film give 70s New Hollywood before while beating them at their own game. fun ride and looked just so good

this one still bangs, amazing soundtrack and genuinely tapping into some real feelings. one of the good ones

honestly hell yeah

crafty creative fun good job. i like what was included as part of beaver society like public defenders and quilting

punk rocks, i love music. this was also how i felt the first time i heard Teenage Kicks

jesus christ 😮‍💨 lucrecia martel channels the marguerite duras flavor of bourgeois disquiet that just really gets under my skin. every moment is so sinister and everything that happens feels so precarious you’re just left wondering what’s even happening who these people really are where the line is between sanity and insanity, existence, reality, ETC. there’s a really pervasive sinister sexual and incestual undertone to this film and so many moments where everything happening is quiet and understated but feels so inherently wrong. my final comment is that aunt lala was serving margaret thatcher big time

really really fun sort of throwback style comedy with contemporary elements (like snorting a bunch of ketamine, shoutout) loved the politics and the heart this film has (brits out means free palestine too) it’s good at taking the piss and making you care about these characters and their world which is our world and you should know which side you’re on. loved that the film approaches the viewer like “you already know what it is i’m not here to convince you, you’re one of us” and dares you to think otherwise. was so relieved this never became an anti-drug psa. musicals are back !

platonic ideal fun, maybe no one has ever understood the assignment more

Watched on Friday March 7, 2025.

hilarious charming

unfortunately only OKAY, i thought this spent way too long breaking down the murders themselves which is the part everyone already knows and only kind of sketches out all the weird CIA FBI guys floating around the pre and post of the murders 

maybe this will be a fun entry point for manson freaks who don’t already know the cointelpro connection, but if you’re a cointelpro freak already there’s not a whole lot here for you 

it’s a Netflix film though so I didn’t expect much

i had cramps for most of this 150 minutes

this totally ripped, trust exercises for men

hugely they just don’t make em like they used to

“when i made zis feelm eet was science fiction, now it is zee past.” - olivier assayas

so fun and funny. i’d rather be a pig than a fascist!

i have now seen all ten best picture nominees. this one is good but in the bottom half

Watched on Wednesday February 26, 2025.

oh this had me laughing i had fun. great balance of over the top ridiculous fun and still characters and story to care about and enjoy. glad the femmes still got their due !!!! don’t disparage my femmes!!!

• The Cranes Are Flying
• Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors
• The Color of Pomegranates
• Léon Morin, Priest
• Ashes and Diamonds
• Camera Buff
• Mirror
• Closely Watched Trains
• World on a Wire
• Leningrad Cowboys Go America

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my favorites and my canon NOT a general or comprehensive list

• Persona
• The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant
• 3 Women
• The Brood
• Possession
• Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean
• The Piano Teacher
• Morvern Callar
• Elle
• Sibyl

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redux

• Nickel Boys
• No Other Land
• La Chimera
• Kinds of Kindness
• Anora
• Emilia Pérez
• Sing Sing
• I'm Still Here
• The Substance
• DEVO

...plus 2 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Interview mentions

• ages
• Keep the Lights On
• Love Is Strange
• Splendor in the Grass
• Beware of a Holy Whore
• The Mother and the Whore
• Je Tu Il Elle
• Taxi to the Toilet

• The Card Counter
• Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot
• The Last Resort

Films mentioned in “Cinema and Space in the World”

• Terrorizers
• Days of Eclipse
• War and Peace
• Spartacus
• Burn!
• Blade Runner
• Barbarella
• The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
• That Obscure Object of Desire
• L'Âge d'or

...plus 15 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• The Portrait of a Lady
• The Age of Innocence

• 2001: A Space Odyssey
• Body and Soul
• They Made Me a Criminal
• Dust Be My Destiny
• Saturday's Children
• Out of the Fog
• Black Narcissus
• The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
• Metropolis
• The Postman Always Rings Twice

...plus 11 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

one of the best film cities for deep politics

• Vertigo
• Basic Instinct
• Hardcore
• Invasion of the Body Snatchers
• Patty Hearst
• The Conversation
• Zodiac
• Harold and Maude
• The Maltese Falcon
• The Last Black Man in San Francisco

pretty self explanatory, on wednesdays we watch Walken

• Dune: Part Two
• The Deer Hunter
• Annie Hall
• True Romance
• King of New York
• Basquiat
• The Comfort of Strangers
• Romance & Cigarettes
• The Family Fang
• Catch Me If You Can

...plus 2 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Young Frankenstein
• Dead Ringers
• Crash
• Paprika
• Snowpiercer
• Godzilla, King of the Monsters!

• Rashomon
• Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
• The Wizard of Oz
• Good Morning
• Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
• Yi Yi
• The Handmaiden
• Snow Trail
• Memories of Murder
• Sans Soleil

...plus 11 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.