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  Carnival of Souls 1962

  Watched by ella 14 May 2022

  one of the most effective uses of sound design i’ve seen in a movie- diegesis melts into internal sound-worlds, the disappearance of location sound as a signal of planar transition, dialogue overdubbed in post production indexing the destabilization of trauma

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  Sidewalls 2011

  Watched by ella 13 May 2022

  fake deep agoraphobia cornfest but it had some o.k. musings about architecture and mental health along the way ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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  Kiss the Ground 2020

  ★★½ Watched by ella 11 Oct 2020 6

  this feels like an intervention for people who are still stuck on organic produce being the answer to conventional extractivist agriculture; helpful if you’re feeling hopeless about the climate crisis, etc etc. it also completely erases indigenous american approaches to land management, presenting the new agricultural solution that somehow nobody has realized before. instead, the movie gives us a sea of celebrities parading into africa to show the rural folk how it’s done, celebrating an ahistorical return to the supposed…

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  Garlic Is as Good as Ten Mothers 1980

  ★★★★½ Watched by ella 15 May 2020

  i ate raw garlic as i watched this and felt closer to god