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Taxi Driver 1976
The guy who introduced this was talking like fucking Tim Heidecker, it was so baffling. At one point he went "Yeah, well, uhh, John Hinckley.. er, uh, John Lennon.. who was killed by.. Anyway, people who do.. maybe bad things sometimes are influenced by, uh, characters.. in movies... Did you guys know that 'Palme d'or' means 'golden palm'?"
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Twin Peaks 1989
The American Dream: What Was It?
What I think is important to understand about Lynch, at least in assessing this particular work of his, is that he is not interested in participating in the economy of the “real”. Or, the economy of the cinematic meta-truth — he operates in his own mannerist-impressionist language, as can be uniquely identified in each of his projects. Eraserhead was the divorce picture (as made so popular by Lynch’s contemporaries) filtered through psychodramatic rorschach ink…
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Love Streams 1984
Love, the great illness — may it take us all. Pretty clearly the best movie anybody has ever made
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Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? 1966
Reminded me a lot of that one scene from Faces. Really wretched film, I had a great time with it. Nichols turns the modern domestic space into a gruesome arena (Violence! Violence!); the happy couple's home is made battlegrounds-cum-mausoleum, and it seems as if the walls have seen more than a few corpses pass through already. It's a hard thing to sit through, but the ideas are all very easy—the games are zero-sum; Taylor's and Burton's marriage is over before…
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Dallas Buyers Club 2013
casting a man as a trans woman is bad enough on its own but like
it had to be jared leto?? jesus christ what an insult to injury
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