Letterboxd — Your life in film

kawase’s films are sweet, natural, and over-exposed. ask me who my favorite director was in college + id tell you it was naomi kawase. i relied on her tenderness often, rewatching katatsumori any time i needed a good cry. i cant BELIEVE no one told me so many of her films were available to stream !! 

im not familiar w the source material here but this did so many interesting things w structure + pacing + temporality, packing an emotional punch…

kind of reminds me of the time christian ran me down the entire plot of this movie at a sushi restaurant three or so years ago<3 it gave me a fright! and kinda spoke to me about how negligence is violence + grief is haunting. i think the dialogue paled in comparison to that interpretation of possession + the performances, but if someone argued that that was “the point,” id be like fair enough, something had to ground the film.…

i havent rewatched this in years since before i had a LB wow? velma kelly and roxie hart (shouldnt it be alphabetical?) are my siskel and ebert dont make me say who is who i dont have answers i just pose questions

i think one of my neighbors was trying to signal me to turn down the volume by airplaying their ipad to my tv so the 4 digit numerical code would pop up and pause the movie. if it’s the 135…

This morning my small child threw his schoolbag to the ground in a disgusted tantrum about some infraction I was making on his right to just go freely about his life, and we were still both a bit sore about it this evening but then he was struggling to fall to sleep so I let him snuggle up on the sofa and watch The Young Girls of Rochefort with me because sometimes parenting is just a great go with the…

Pretty bold to make your movie a big ode to Nic Cage and fundamentally misunderstand what makes him interesting as an actor. Genuinely feel bad for Cage, whose idiosyncrasies are reduced down to “randomly yells really loud.” The thing that occasionally makes his performances funny is Nic Cage can operate at a different rhythm from the film he’s in or the other actors around him. His choices are incredibly hard to predict. He’ll take a quiet moment and make it…

It's often hard to decipher why we make the decisions we do. In moments of regret, we look back and wonder what we were thinking -- how we possibly could've let ourselves get to this point. In most of these situations, the reason is obvious: we just wanted to do something. It's not a satisfactory answer, but it's true nevertheless. When we're forced to bear witness to the difficult circumstances that worsen around us, we make whatever decisions we can…