madeline blair

filmmaker & writer with an affection 
for moving pictures & poetry

Favorite films

  • Heathers
  • Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
  • Possession
  • Girl, Interrupted

All
  • ariana grande: excuse me, i love you

    ★★★

  • Tiny Furniture

    ★★★★

  • Billie Eilish: The World's a Little Blurry

    ★★★½

  • Possession

    ★★★★★

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ariana grande: excuse me, i love you

2020

★★★ Liked Rewatched

forgot how much of this is just tour footage and the bts is entirely random and not very interesting. love her tho

i come back to this era every now and then when i'm struggling because i know this was the most difficult period in ariana's life, and seeing her get through it makes me feel less alone even if the root causes and our lives are different. when she said, "this show for sure, for sure saved my life…

Tiny Furniture

2010

★★★★ Liked Watched

prototype girls mumblecore with the classic, endearingly insufferable characters lena writes best. she's the only writer who tries really hard to be funny that actually makes me laugh. all the scenes with her mother i myself have lived 

+1 star for when they said the mom's name and it triggered the siri on mia's phone while we were watching. why would you name a character siri in this day and age

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The Sweet East

2023

★★½ Watched

nihilist gen x beau is afraid for red scare-pilled girlies... lots of voyeuristic misogyny where the lolita-coded lead manipulates and wooes all these men at the tip of her virginia slim menthol-wielding fingertips. pizzagate, a studded-dick exhibitionist, massive cocaine-snorting puppet, meta film set massacre, slurs and vapes and guns galore, all teetering between american satire and edgelord gibberish. can't decide if it wants to be the 70s or 90s or 2020s. picaresque, yes, but the vignette choices were kinda nonsense.…

Poor Things

2023

Watched

wanted to love this one so bad as a weird bitch to my core but this was no less than insufferable. the style had absolutely no substance and was so try-hard bizarre just for the sake of being different. arbitrarily switching between b&w and color, overusing odd lenses and zoom ins and outs, plastic looking cgi, all for nothing! the audience burst out laughing every 5 seconds at things i couldn't even pretend to find funny. so many random details…