thank you brandon cronenberg for letting mia goth use her normal freaky voice. i deserve to hear that woman sound like a tortured victorian child. from now on any director who makes her speak with a generic american accent deserves the death penalty
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Ginger Snaps 2000
no sentence has summed up my experience of womanhood more than ginger saying “i thought this craving was for sex, but i want to tear everything to pieces.” girl literally…
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Winter Light 1963
tomas says to jonas: “you must live, jonas. summer’s on the way. after all, the darkness won’t last forever. you’ve got your strawberry beds, haven’t you, and your flowering jasmine? what perfume! long, hot days. it’s the earthly paradise, jonas. it’s something to live for.” jonas doesn’t believe it. tomas doesn’t believe his own words either. but they’re enough for me. some of us can believe and some of us can’t. i can. i can believe that when tomas chooses…
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Boston Strangler 2023
actually i think this is better than zodiac. i see beautiful women and i am impressed. i know i'm in the minority but i would rather watch keira knightly in her gorgeous outfits than a sweaty manic jake gyllenhaal
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Hiroshima Mon Amour 1959
it’s terrible. my memory of you is already fading. i’m beginning to forget you. it makes me afraid, forgetting so much love
powerful from its very first frame. how these entwined bodies cannot survive love any more than they could survive the atomic bomb: the annihilating nature of obsessive love. the warmth of another’s body, the warmth of burnt flesh. the language of love and war, pleasure and pain — devour me. deform me to your likeness so that, after…
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Avatar: The Way of Water 2022
i’ve been complaining all week about having to see this to complete my best picture ranking in time for the oscars, i was so sure i would hate this film -- and i ended up loving it! i found the original avatar painful to get through but every scene feels so important here, so fundamental to each of the character’s development that the run time felt like nothing. i am 100% pandora pilled. mr. cameron give me a million more of these!
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Tiger 2021
the opening scene reflects the rest of the documentary: earl woods preaching the gospel of his son - “he’ll transcend this game and bring to the world a humanitarianism which has never been known before. the world will be a better place to live in by virtue of his existence and his presence” - interspersed with footage of tiger’s arrest. it’s a little salacious and gossipy but the film has such a strong emotional core you're inclined to forgive it…
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Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat 1999
bad costumes? dodgy singing voices? half-naked donny osmond? it is NOT tacky it is CAMP baby!!!! such a classic. every single song is perfect.
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Wuthering Heights 2011
whilst brontë is known for her beautiful prose, arnold strips back the script, relying on the visual. there’s a lot of animal cruelty in this but i think they’re necessary, powerful images. this farm is not a place for life, freshness, beginnings. death clings like a second shadow. soft, innocent things must be maimed. it is how they live. the earth is cruel so they must be crueller. very little dialogue means the viewer has to learn why heathcliff and…
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Warren Zevon: Keep Me in Your Heart 2003
been on the look out for this doc for years only to come across it on youtube the other day. zevon’s the best. the absolute greatest. he sort of has this ‘your favourite artist’s favourite artist’ label: his music was revered by people like springsteen, dylan, billy joel and he deserves to have the fame and the legacy that those men do!!!! amazing to see how this beautiful, beautiful album came together when he was so close to death, how he held on long enough to gift this to us. insane!
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