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PARADISE. ISN’T. ALWAYS.

a triumph of troll cinema. ELLIE PARKER YOU HAVE CHANGED THE WORLD FOREVER

Watched on Thursday June 5, 2025.

Dario Argento’s Soul Surfer. a certified Redbox classic. the motion picture event of the year

Watched on Monday June 2, 2025.

Watched on Friday May 30, 2025.

we need a moratorium on horror that’s “about grief” or “about trauma”. untouched sequence fucks though

Watched on Thursday May 29, 2025.

Watched on Tuesday May 27, 2025.

Watched on Saturday May 24, 2025.

Watched on Friday May 23, 2025.

Watched on Wednesday May 21, 2025.

this is a damn KIIIIIII DNDVEVEVECEGEHSNANSV

Watched on Wednesday May 14, 2025.

this mf really named CLEAR

the randomly impeccable direction of one of the worst scripts of all time CTFU

Watched on Tuesday May 13, 2025.

Watched on Saturday May 10, 2025.

the most confoundedly surreal costume design in recent memory

Watched on Thursday May 1, 2025.

Watched on Tuesday April 29, 2025.

Watched on Tuesday April 29, 2025.

Watched on Sunday April 20, 2025.

Watched on Friday April 18, 2025.

we all smiled so big. meghann fahy beautiful girl let’s all love her

still the best of the decade so far and it’s not even close 😭😭😭

WHO HID THIS 😍😍

Watched on Friday April 4, 2025.

nicole needs to learn how to say no

Watched on Tuesday March 25, 2025.

soderbergh was in his (black) bag here

something soooo fierce to me about when a director credits themselves mononymously. this doesn’t work for me the whole time but is very affecting and exciting when it does. need lee pace incredulously.

fosse is criminally underrated as a film director. no one else has come even close to cracking the code of how to shoot a dance sequence

actresses just aren’t named tuesday anymore

elaine stritch saying “exotic latina”

Watched on Sunday March 9, 2025.

Watched on Thursday February 27, 2025.

Watched on Saturday February 22, 2025.

antonio banderes in amelia earhart drag… WORLD PEACE FRANCHISE

Watched on Monday February 17, 2025.

A GAG IS A GAG

Watched on Sunday February 16, 2025.

Watched on Thursday February 13, 2025.

you know when de palma whips out the split screens, red lighting, and heavy handed male gaze that it’s gonna be a classic

MASOCHISM IS COMING

movies can be soooo good

just an absolute delight start to finish

hate how much of this the marketing gave away, wish I would’ve gone in totally blind. sophie thatcher movie star, maybe someday we’ll get her in something with a coherent script

Watched on Wednesday January 29, 2025.

she just be doing shit

1. Moonrise Kingdom
2. The Royal Tenenbaums
3. Asteroid City
4. Rushmore
5. Fantastic Mr. Fox
6. The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
7. The Darjeeling Limited
8. The Grand Budapest Hotel
9. Isle of Dogs
10. The French Dispatch

...plus 1 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. The Favourite
2. Poor Things
3. The Lobster
4. The Killing of a Sacred Deer
5. Dogtooth
6. Kinds of Kindness
7. Alps

new york city TO ME

• Manhattan
• After Hours
• s Ha
• The King of Comedy
• Do the Right Thing
• Party Girl
• Rosemary's Baby
• Mistress America
• Annie Hall
• The Apartment

...plus 44 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Anora
2. Nickel Boys
3. Conclave
4. I'm Still Here
5. Wicked
6. Dune: Part Two
7. The Brutalist
8. Emilia Pérez
9. The Substance
10. A Complete Unknown

1. Anora
2. The Beast
3. A Different Man
4. Red Rooms
5. La Chimera
6. Challengers
7. Babygirl
8. Hard Truths
9. The Room Next Door
10. Queer

...plus 42 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

personal holiday canon

• Carol
• Tangerine
• The Apartment
• Black Christmas
• Eyes Wide Shut
• Scrooged
• Little Women
• Eileen
• Far from Heaven
• The Umbrellas of Cherbourg

...plus 24 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
• The Substance
• Ed Wood
• Eyes of Laura Mars
• Rosemary's Baby
• The Fly
• Ring
• The Fog
• Teeth
• Smile 2

...plus 7 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Anora
2. Queer
3. Emilia Pérez
4. Maria
5. The Shrouds

• Party Girl
• Romy and Michele's High School Reunion
• The Big Picture
• For Your Consideration
• Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
• The Daytrippers
• Waiting for Guffman
• Nowhere
• Mistress America
• Licorice Pizza

...plus 13 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Lost in Translation
2. The Virgin Suicides
3. The Bling Ring
4. Marie Antoinette
5. The Beguiled
6. Priscilla
7. Somewhere
8. On the Rocks

1. Poor Things
2. May December
3. Monster
4. Perfect Days
5. Problemista
6. Anatomy of a Fall
7. Past Lives
8. ages
9. Asteroid City
10. The Zone of Interest

...plus 43 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Carol
2. Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story
3. Safe
4. May December
5. Velvet Goldmine
6. The Velvet Underground
7. Dottie Gets Spanked
8. Far from Heaven
9. Poison
10. I'm Not There

...plus 3 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Frankenhooker
• Repulsion
• Poor Things
• Suspiria
• Perfect Blue
• The Lost Boys
• Young Frankenstein
• The Others
• Phantom of the Paradise
• The Exorcist

...plus 3 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Scream
2. Scream 2
3. Scream 4
4. Scream 3
5. Scream
6. Scream VI

• Rosemary's Baby
• Meshes of the Afternoon
• Inland Empire
• mother!
• Possession
• The Scary of Sixty-First
• The Lodge
• Suspiria
• Carrie
• The Love Witch

...plus 4 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. TÁR
2. The Fabelmans
3. Bones and All
4. All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
5. Barbarian
6. Moonage Daydream
7. After Yang
8. Blonde
9. Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio
10. The Banshees of Inisherin

...plus 44 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Donkey Skin
• Orlando
• Pink Narcissus
• Happy as Lazzaro
• Marie Antoinette
• Freak Orlando
• Poison
• La vita nuova
• Daisies
• Romeo + Juliet

...plus 9 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Rosemary's Baby
• Barbarian
• Peeping Tom
• Pearl
• Goodnight Mommy
• Hocus Pocus 2
• Dracula
• Jennifer's Body
• Smile
• Saw

...plus 16 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Spencer
2. Drive My Car
3. The Worst Person in the World
4. Licorice Pizza
5. Titane
6. C'mon C'mon
7. The Velvet Underground
8. The Power of the Dog
9. Zola
10. Annette

...plus 45 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Drive My Car
2. Licorice Pizza
3. The Power of the Dog
4. Dune
5. Nightmare Alley
6. CODA
7. West Side Story
8. Belfast
9. Don't Look Up

• The Lie
• Save Yourselves!
• Always Shine
• The Future
• Framing Britney Spears
• Clockwatchers
• Wings
• Moxie
• Josie and the Pussycats
• Foxfire

...plus 20 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Film program curated for final project in Major Film Movements: Global New Waves film course!

In Susan Sontag’s prolific essay Notes on Camp, she explains that “...the whole point of Camp is to dethrone the serious. Camp is playful, anti-serious. More precisely, Camp involves a new, more complex relation to ‘the serious.’ One can be serious about the frivolous, frivolous about the serious”. On the contrary, surrealism is defined by dream logic - with intentionally jarring and absurd imagery. Both surrealism and camp thrive with juxtaposition, which is what makes films with elements of both so intriguing and effective. The films in this program find the fantastical and bizarre in the everyday, but do it with a heavy wink. Shockingly absurd and utterly self-aware, these films find their women protagonists in incoherent worlds that defy explanation - but also don’t ask for any. Each of these features is a cinematic rollercoaster ride that leaves the viewer unsure whether to laugh, cry, or scream. These films have elements of comedy, drama, horror, mystery, noir, fairy tale, satire, and more - but are united in their kitschy portrayal of dream worlds.

• Daisies

  Daisies is an unexplainable feminist farce and a staple of the Czech New Wave. Chytilova’s masterpiece follows two young girls, both named Marie, through a colorful world of their own creation. The film navigates its surrealist elements with irony, humor, and sharp critiques of the bourgeois and patriarchal society.

• House

  House is your childhood nightmares come to life - literally. The concept for the film was born from stories Obayashi collected from his daughter’s dreams. With childlike sensibilities, psychedelic visuals and over-the-top acting, House is a cinematic experience comparable to nothing else.

• Mulholland Drive

  Mulholland Drive finds American auteur and master of surrealism David Lynch at his most fully realized. A distorted portrait of sunny Los Angeles through the eyes of an aspiring actress and a tortured amnesiac, nothing is as it seems in this genre-bending noir. Stunning, dreamlike cinematography and off-putting editing keep the viewer on the edge of their seat the whole time.

• The Lure

  The Lure takes the classic story of The Little Mermaid and twists it on its head. The film finds the perfect balance between gaudy and gory - transforming the fairy tale into a terrifying musical adventure. Following two young mermaids in 1980s Poland, the film’s lush cinematography and muted color palette pay homage to B-movies of the past while creating its own utterly distinctive, genre-defying style.

• Greener Grass

  A picture-perfect suburban town slowly begins to unravel in the outlandish dark comedy Greener Grass. Soccer moms with adult braces, children turning into dogs, and a candy-colored world make this satire a delightfully weird romp.

1. Mulholland Drive
2. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
3. Blue Velvet
4. Eraserhead
5. Inland Empire
6. Lost Highway
7. The Elephant Man
8. The Straight Story
9. Wild at Heart
10. Dune

1. Never Rarely Sometimes Always
2. Nomadland
3. Shiva Baby
4. Kajillionaire
5. Promising Young Woman
6. Sound of Metal
7. Black Bear
8. Minari
9. Soul
10. Saint s

...plus 56 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

well let’s try this again

• The Turning
• Miss Americana
• Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn)
• Emma.
• Portrait of a Lady on Fire
• The Lodge
• Greener Grass
• Daisies
• Hail Satan?
• Annie Leibovitz: Life Through a Lens

...plus 50 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Gone Girl
2. The Social Network
3. Zodiac
4. Fight Club
5. Se7en
6. Panic Room
7. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
8. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
9. Mank

1. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
2. Synecdoche, New York
3. Adaptation.
4. Being John Malkovich
5. Anomalisa
6. I'm Thinking of Ending Things

1. Lady Bird
2. Moonlight
3. American Honey
4. The Lobster
5. 20th Century Women
6. First Reformed
7. Eighth Grade
8. The Florida Project
9. The Farewell
10. The Bling Ring

...plus 29 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

didn’t see the others because i don’t care!

1. Little Women
2. Parasite
3. Marriage Story
4. Jojo Rabbit
5. Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood

1. Little Women
2. Parasite
3. Marriage Story
4. The Farewell
5. Midsommar
6. Booksmart
7. Knives Out
8. Us
9. Hustlers
10. Climax

...plus 57 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

:( i failed :(

• The Virgin Suicides
• On the Basis of Sex
• Happy as Lazzaro
• We Need to Talk About Kevin
• Blockers
• Landline
• American Honey
• Free Solo
• Smooth Talk
• Mommy Dead and Dearest

...plus 31 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Black Mirror: San Junipero
2. Black Mirror: Nosedive
3. Black Mirror: Hang the DJ
4. Black Mirror: USS Callister
5. Black Mirror: White Bear
6. Black Mirror: Shut Up and Dance
7. Black Mirror: Arkangel
8. Black Mirror: Be Right Back
9. Black Mirror: Playtest
10. Black Mirror: Fifteen Million Merits

...plus 8 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Obvious Child
• s Ha
• Good Time
• Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
• The Kindergarten Teacher
• Sleeping with Other People
• Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist
• Vox Lux
• Whiplash
• Black Swan

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

1. The Favourite
2. Roma
3. Vox Lux
4. First Reformed
5. Suspiria
6. Eighth Grade
7. Shoplifters
8. Shirkers
9. A Star Is Born
10. Sorry to Bother You

...plus 69 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

A NIGHTMARE. LITERALLY A NIGHTMARE

1. The Favourite
2. Roma
3. A Star Is Born
4. BlacKkKlansman
5. Black Panther
6. Green Book
7. Bohemian Rhapsody
8. Vice