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Dancer in the Dark 2000
It's been about six years, six long years since I saw this for the first time. I remember crying throughout those last 10 minutes and the credits too, something I think was a first for a film to do to me. It was devastating, an incredibly devastating picture of the harsh realities of America crushing an idealist, a woman stuck in her own happy little musical world. And six years later it still hurts like a motherfucker, even more now…
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What Happened Was... 1994
Oh, the dread of dating, of being vulnerable and honest with someone you feel you can be that way with, even if it makes your stomach turn at the thought of being that way. This film just embodies that anxiety, that stomach-churning feeling of getting close to another, and having it set within the walls of one's apartment makes this feeling all the more anxiety-inducing, but close and intimate and...beautiful in the end. We're all just awkward human beings looking…
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In a Lonely Place 1950
Amazing, amazing stuff here. Oh how it is to live for love, even if you and your temper get in the way, getting comfortable in showing your colors, colors everyone seems to know but no one cares to do something about. Dix’s a fine artist (sometimes), an interesting face. Laurel sees that interesting face and sees more, but she just cannot look past those awful colors that hinder Dix, his angry temper and violent past. It’s too much, too close…
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Flaming Creatures 1963
The beauty of older queer cinema, particularly the more avant-garde-leaning, is that most of these films totally embrace queerness and defy normality, defy the basics of cinema to create something utterly unique to the filmmaker’s experience. And this lil chaotic beauty of a motion picture is definitely a great example. A descent into genderfuck chaos only to return from the dead, because the party won’t die as long as our fun doesn’t.
