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I feel like Brett Easton Ellis should’ve k*lled h*mself when this came out… his whole schtick, done as interestingly as possible and still pretty whatever? Fun!

Watched on Sunday April 20, 2025.

Watched on Sunday April 13, 2025.

Watched on Sunday April 6, 2025.

David Cronenberg presents: You Guys Have To Stop Being Scared Of Anal

Watched on Sunday March 23, 2025.

Watched on Sunday March 16, 2025.

Watched on Saturday March 15, 2025.

I do not believe Christina Crawford

Watched on Sunday February 16, 2025.

Made me feel the same way watching s Ha did when I was 17. 

You know, for as often as we say, it really is true in this case: that happened to me no less than 5 times. Comforting actually, as I hurtle towards my 29th birthday to learn it will continue into my 30s and probably beyond that. 

She was wearing the fuck out of that yellow turtleneck! Correctly supposes that there is no reason to cheat with someone conventionally hot, one should always cheat with someone who is a little ugly with it!

Watched on Monday February 10, 2025.

God I wish this would happen to me

Watched on Monday February 3, 2025.

Watched on Monday February 3, 2025.

Watched on Sunday February 2, 2025.

Watched on Sunday January 19, 2025.

Watched on Thursday January 16, 2025.

Left the theater and immediately texted a man “are you a big Joyce boy?” Because this successfully made me want to read Joyce??? I did like The Dead in college but having them recite it like this moved me beyond words. 

The shot of the snow from the hospital windows is so magical to me. 

Obviously there’s the colors, and the performances, and the chemistry between everyone and the chamber piece of it all!! All of which are executed perfectly. I’m still trying to parse exactly how I feel about this one, or have any thoughts at all about it because I loved the novel so dearly and I loved this movie so dearly and they could not be more different, except in that they both really made me laugh at moments that caught me entirely by surprise. 

Need to get lunch with Almodovar and Sigrid Nunez sooooo fucking bad. 

Also Heroines by Kate Zambreno on Tilda’s sick bedside table… I was pointing at the screen honey!

Made me feel like I was in an emotional saw trap. Fucking BRUTAL dude!!! Was talking with my friend before we saw this and we both were failing to find the right way to talk about the comion and grace Leigh displays in his films and how it often has this. Inherent cruelty to it? Or it’s not cruelty but it can feel so brutalizing, how long he allows scenes to go on, how much he lets us see these people who are trying, and scared, and alone just collapse. Bros are always trying to explain Lars Von Trier to me and that man does so little for me, but this kind of abject human suffering? That connects for me. 

The hair salon scenes, the two sisters sitting together after work drinking, the fucking motorcycles!!!!! Oh I was weeping. I had a head ache and almost feinted in the AMC. 

Dick Pope I love you and I miss you sm.

Loved every second of this. Funny and lived in and painful and beautiful and redemptive. I was so overwhelmed and moved. The final scene especially blew me away.

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Hated every second of watching this honestly. My dad used to take us to a cabin in New Hampshire every summer for two weeks and the whole time I wanted to go back home and be with my mom again… I get it okay? 

The barn burning shot did make me feel crazy tho. I pumped my fist like that video of the lesbian watching football when sissy left his ass finally! Strong movie, despite the ending monologue about fathers and sons doing so little for me.

Irdgaf… sorry to Paul. 

I did gasp so loud when Rita Wilson showed up. 

A poor man’s boogie nights if ever there was one.

For the last seven years I’ve been so scared to watch this because I was afraid I would disagree with all my friends and love this. I don’t want to be contrarian! Anyways, no more fear of that! 

IJBOL at least 15 times. The Faustian reveal is maybe the funniest thing I’ve ever seen in a movie. 

Kind of like if Her Smell was made by an evil straggot. But Her Smell was already made by an evil straggot! 

I will say when Natalie falls out of her hotel room I was in tears.

I was sexting a man for most of this but I did stop and rewind her blowing up the car 3 times and oh how I laugheddddddddd. 

John Travolta is so bad at acting here and it really works!

If I was in grad school I would write the most evil academic paper of all time called something like “Incest as a path to spirituality via transgender projection” but I’m not in grad school so we are all safe. 

Mandy Patinkin please come home the children miss you. 

Also Barbra did a full on Coppola impression directing this (COMPLIMENT)

Only really works when it’s about how bad it is to date a white Spaniard

Watched on Thursday January 9, 2025.

Watched this probably a dozen times a child, it went quadruple platinum in my family. The scene where the Australian watches Charles Bronson shower? Huge sexual awakening for me. 

Grateful this kind of thing was allowed to be formative for me, mixed among all the insane bullshit both my parents fed us. 

Joyful and heartbreaking. A truly insane number of smashes in here. When Steve jumps that fence on the motorcycle, that to me is movie magic. 

A major touchstone for me, always has been!

So funny that this is basically the screenplay that the fail son in The Corrections tries to write. 

Rachel McAdams you are so LOVED!!!! 

Really stupid but in a way I loved!

Was mostly bored until the ending realllllllly won me over. John lithgow they could never make me scared of you, but they almost did!

The erotic thriller died because everyone got scared of making porn! God what a fun one!!!

Kind of the least of all of it but the score rocks. I loooooooove this score sm 

Also relapsing and being mean to your friend and then he lets you sleep on his couch? Many such cases

They made this movie specifically for me. Rewatched with two of my dearest friends :). What a miracle!

Mom can we go see the souvenir pt II? 

We have the souvenir pt II at home….

Meryl’s accent is terrible, the kids are often an All That Heaven Allows level distraction, or weirdly they have too much chemistry! The whole movie is crying out for an analyst like Adam Phillips or Jacqueline Rose to write about!! And yet! 

It’s so perfect. So loving and tender. The melodrama of love, of choices, of the ages of time!!! So aching and moving and powerful. Clint Eastwood literally has so much fucking sauce. 

Made me want to listen to “those three days” by Lucinda Williams on repeat and sob.

Every time the Italian guy is on screen I whispered “bring back our men” to myself.

So pleasantly incoherent in what it’s trying to say. Amy Adams and Marielle Heller you are SO LOVED

Walked out of the theater after 30 minutes…. Don’t fucking piss me off

Really interesting in that it fails to be a piece of video art with any kind of interesting visual language, and fails to make any kind of real or engaging portrait of Arthur Russell at all… and yet! There is so much great stuff here. The interviews with the musicians who knew him, the gossip! The interviews with his partner and his parents are wildly moving, despite being edited terribly!! 

Mainly the takeaway here is, as always, that music journalists are some of the dumbest, most annoying people in the world. Absolute idiots who understand nothing about art. Pretty humiliating honestly!

Earlier this year I got sick and spent a feverish weekend watching a bunch of Derek Jarman films and my main takeaway was “goddamn do gay guys love sets.” Watching this reminded me of that a lot! 

I know it’s Deborah Kerr’s movie through and through, but Jean Simmons and Kathleen Byron (all of the other sisters really) are giving lifetime achievement award performances in this. Mr. Dean innocent and psycho sexy… his little slut outfit… 

Being in a group chat with me is exactly like this movie, btw.

Wholly unpleasant! 

One time, like almost 5 years ago, I went on a date with this insanely hot Australian tech guy who was buying a house in Lakeview that week. He was obsessed with fitness and in his 40s and we got lunch and he looked at me so shocked when I ordered avocado toast, so I asked if they didn’t have that in Australia and he said “no we do. I just can’t imagine eating carbs.” 

Anyways, I think this movie would kill my deranged orthorexic chiropractor instantaneously.

An absolute classic of the “I’m gonna fucking kill myself” canon

Kind of impossibly predicted most cultural moments of the 80s in one film and is so fun and so stressful!

God I love Jeannie Berlin… 

They really had me in the first half!

Movie abt being 23!

Watched on Monday November 6, 2023.

Watched on Saturday November 4, 2023.

Had a 100.8 degree fever for 36 hours after seeing this lol.

Dating apps made it so this would never happen to me… sad!

I liked it! It’s fun and dumb and the score is great and mainly everyone gives a great performance! Even when it’s shlocky, I enjoyed myself. I’m very very partial to melodrama!! 

I do need to briefly say that I hate going to the music box in Chicago so much. I don’t want to yell about movie theater etiquette on here because it’s annoying and scold behavior but… the music box consistently has the worst audience.. every time I go the entire theater is laughing so loudly at shit that isn’t a joke! Or funny! It makes me feel insane! To be surrounded by “call me by your name is the best gay movie of all time” and “webcomics are the future of literature” losers all laughing at sex scenes or gay shit of any kind! It’s embarrassing!! It is making me hate a perfectly fine theater!! 

Anyways! Charles Melton is so good here it made me want to crawl around on the ceiling!! Natalie Portman also doing a great job playing the most irritating person I can ever imagine having a conversation with.

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