every visit to the cinema leaves me, against all my vigilance, smarter and better
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Loving Highsmith 2022
i am determined to make a good thing of every catastrophe of my life. there will come a day when i shall voyage all around the earth: when i shall know the names and faces of men, and women, and children; i shall know the turns in many roads; and i shall have friends beyond number; and i shall still be lonely as i am now; and i shall still desire then to know more names, and faces, and cities.…
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The Hours 2002
sapphic suicidal ideation is my safeword. why did they travesty nicole kidman's performance with that prosthetic nose? why didn't the voting members of the oscars care? this movie singlehandedly convinced me to stop hating meryl streep for countercultural clout. all of this is very kierkegaard, if he didn't have his god to believe in. im depressed btw
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Challengers 2024
First things first: I brought a date to this viewing, just like everyone else in the audience, MUCH to my chagrin. (Save for one friend-group of three; I hope they got what they were looking for.)
This movie is deliciously elevated camp. For this reason, perhaps counter-intuitively, I find Challengers all that more tasteful than Guadignino's self-serious features (I Am Love; Call Me By Your Name; Suspiria). The fast and furious pace of the camera and the auditory aggression of…
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I Saw the TV Glow 2024
Do you ever feel like... the Pink Opaque is more real... than real life?
I managed to get all the way to Phoenix on the money I saved. The trees looked different, but everything else was exactly the same.
This isn't the midnight realm. This is just the suburbs.
What if TV is realer than real life? What if everything looks the same in the suburbs, everywhere, and TV is the escape hatch? Ruh roh Raggy... the narrative structure between…
