Michel F Pro

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Favorite films

  • Chameleon Street
  • The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
  • Stop Making Sense
  • Le Bonheur

All
  • Kiss Kiss Bang Bang

    ★★

  • Sinners

  • Rope

    ★★★★★

  • Björk: Cornucopia

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Kiss Kiss Bang Bang

2005

★★ Watched

God, what awful writing. I really dislike this kind of wink wink, self satisfied, witless, juvenile Tarantino-adjacent script peppered with corny/strained humor, misogyny, early aughts casual homophobia, etc. Not to mention characters with no internal logic and a needlessly/stupidly convoluted plot with zero stakes 
But even though the movie’s ass, its likable leads (RIP Kilmer; your career was cut too short) suffuse it with enough charm to make it a bearable watch.

Rope

1948

★★★★★ Rewatched

Easily the best entry in the Be Gay. Do Crimes canon, featuring the OG demon twink. But seriously, this movie is incredible and I love it so much.

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Secret Mall Apartment

2024

★★★★½ 2

There’s joy in art making and this documentary very much reflects that spirit.

American Fiction

2023

★★½ Watched

Silly Monk, Tyler Perry would never play gay…. 
Jokes aside, there is enough to like about this (the cast, the humor, the interpersonal dynamics, etc). But its satirical take on black artists navigating a cultural landscape in which performativeness is encouraged and rewarded feels quite outdated and, frankly, insulting. It shortchanges the way that racial micro aggressions play out in the real world.
 Back when Cord Jefferson was on staff at the now defunct Gawker, he penned a short essay…