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now this is a movie! the costume designer put their whole bush in this one

thanks for watching with me Fatima <3

This is like the darker, more twisted version of celine & julie go boating. I could see Laura Palmer’s theme soundtracking Baptise & Marie’s misadventures

“so are we like best friends now that you've seen the inside of my freezer”

so real

Watched on Thursday May 8, 2025.

so real

oh Jaques Rivette, thank you for reminding me that I love watching movies

let this be a warning now on settler colonialism & on the dangers of letting them people into your family

why would anyone write such a miserable fucking movie

ummmmm

Watched on Wednesday March 19, 2025.

Watched on Sunday March 16, 2025.

she’s so valid

slice of black life

french thelma and louise !!!

so very powerful

literally amazing!!! 

thanks for watching with me Bridget, Claire, and Rug (:

Watched on Sunday February 16, 2025.

Watched on Friday February 14, 2025.

Watched on Wednesday February 12, 2025.

afro-surrealism at its finest.

There’s a commentary here about how those who try to benefit from the white supremacist system will never actually benefit from it.

Watched on Monday February 10, 2025.

pls not him telling a racist white woman he gave someone an abortion in coochieville lmfao 

Set in Louisiana during the 80s, Cane River touches on how colorism and racism are rampant throughout society. Really loved seeing the shots of the two black leads out in nature accompanied by horses.

One of the best films i’ve seen in a long time. This is black arthouse.

I saw this at my local theater and it was filled with white people. I watched as people near me were on their phones or even walked out - it was truly surreal.

just as good as the first time, omg I love this sm

this was so wild omg

This film flew on my radar after watching an earlier film by Jamaa Fanaka, Emma Mae. Unfortunately, I don’t seem to have myself quite as drawn to this story as I was with Emma Mae. There are some interesting characters here and some social commentary to extracted from the plight of these characters. But it really doesn’t seem as effective in delivering that message as Emma Mae.

I like this because of how it serves as a portrayal of what the queer teen experience was like in the early 90s. But I don't think any of the vignettes presented here really do much for me, it feels sort of aimless until the end. But, I am happy that it exists and that we even have a queer movie like this. Oh and Gregg Araki sure knows how to score a movie though!

Here are some quotes I really liked:

"Sometimes I think the only thing that's keeping us together is a mutual... terror of loneliness"

"I believe in love, I mean there's got to be something for people to cling to besides TV right?"

"I'm stick of this. Heterosexuality sucks... even as a board game"

"Don't touch me unless you mean it"

"What am I supposed to do in the meantime?" "Feel wretched"

I so often seem to watch films that mirror my own existence - I feel very seen by Blanche’s character.

This shit was funny asf omg

so so so pretty!! though I had some qualms with the story :/

it be like that

need to sit with this one, there is truly nothing else like it in this world

I love films about the immigrant experience! Watching this was exceptionally harrowing given Trump’s inauguration, increased ICE raids, and all the “birthright” bullshit he’s doing.

I often think about the scene in which Anna is seemingly at her wits end and says the following “private life is like a stage only i’m playing in many parts that are smaller than me and yet I still play them. I suffer, I believe, I am…”.  

I had this realization yesterday while watching Mulholland Drive that reality is like what Anna describes here. When she begins to talk about the two sisters fighting, I realize that the sisters, chance and fate, represent this dichotomy between wanting to live in fantasy (the dream) and reality.

such a pretty movie

watching this movie makes me feel understood, and if you don't get it then you never were really supposed to

I can’t imagine watching this and it not having a profound impact on you

each rewatch is so special, what an incredible film

meeting the right person at the wrong time

Watched on Tuesday January 14, 2025.

“Yes. I’m good enough for that. For paying.”

An essay on being consumed by the pain of an unrequited love, or more aptly the pain of being used. 
Margit Carstensen absolutely stuns in this performance as Petra von Kant. For the entirety of this film to take place within just some of the rooms of Petra’s house but to carry so much emotional depth is truly spectacular. 

Let’s be real the part where Karin is telling Petra about her hooking up with a black man was nothing more than gross fetishization. 

I really enjoyed the rest of this movie but that part really threw me in for a loop. It feels bad enough to watch and enjoy a film that truly lacks in any Black characters. But it is really disheartening when not only is that the case but the only mention of such a character is in reference to stereotypical features.

Watched on Friday January 10, 2025.

memory is often an illusion

I thought this would be even gayer, i’m so sad

I will definitely have to give this one a rewatch because wtf

I adore any story that is rooted in the immigrant experience. Important to this story is the notion of possibility, what could have been as opposed to what was. I think we’ve all shared this thought of what someone could have meant to us if circumstance played out in our favor.

my kinda film

Watched on Sunday January 5, 2025.

thanks for watching with me Sadia! This film reminds me that i’ve never experienced an emotion for the first time in human history

Watched on Wednesday January 1, 2025.

• Monster
• Rapture
• Vive L'Amour
• Funeral Parade of Roses
• A Bride for Rip Van Winkle
• Pariah
• Persona
• The Watermelon Woman
• Mulholland Drive
• Carol

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• Ganja & Hess
• Personal Problems
• Chameleon Street
• Do the Right Thing
• Tales from the Hood
• Drylongso
• Daughters of the Dust
• Illusions
• To Sleep with Anger
• Killer of Sheep

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• Paris Is Burning
• The Watermelon Woman
• Never Rarely Sometimes Always
• Moonlight
• 5 Broken Cameras
• The Aggressives
• Black Is… Black Ain’t
• Hair Wolf
• Canoa: A Shameful Memory
• For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf

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