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all dated entries pre-12/29/24 painstakingly assembled from diaries, photos & other ephemera

Favorite films

  • Meet Me in St. Louis
  • Nashville
  • The Young Girls of Rochefort
  • One Sings, the Other Doesn't

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  • Cover Girl

    ★★★½

  • Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown

    ★★★★½

  • S.O.B.

    ★★★

  • Mysterious Skin

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  • Cover Girl

    Cover Girl

    ★★★½

    [following the thread of the poster on candela's wall in last night's viewing of 'women on the verge of a nervous breakdown' obviously]

    "well, she's kind of a funny kid, rusty... she's sore because she's got diamonds in her feet." // "i've never seen such a silly pearl in all my life!"

    a treat!! the songs are for the most part overwritten but i was struck by the especially delicate care given to the way they land in a human,…

  • Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown

    Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown

    ★★★★½

    ahhhhhhhh what a fucking wonderful gift of a movie!!!!! i love women i love being a woman even (especially?) when it's Like This.

    need rossy and, let's be honest, also antonio's wardrobes. also i saw a little too much of myself in pepa walking around the penthouse with everyone else passed out mutter-monologuing to herself


    i have a feeling 2025 is going to be the year of almodóvar for me, let's fucking go

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  • Popeye

    Popeye

    ★★★★½

    a joy to share this with the whole willow st crew plus tim, none of whom had seen it before (even if thirty seconds in beth was like "......is this a musical??" in such a tone i genuinely thought she might get up and leave)

  • The Portrait of a Lady

    The Portrait of a Lady

    ★★★

    a lot to appreciate in this even if it left me with the sense there might be some pieces missing... love the stylization, *love* the dream/fantasy sequences (i honestly wish there had been more of them), huge huge cast obviously (including a smallish but memorable shelley duvall role)... what trips me up is that so much of the isabel character pre-marriage (including retrospective references to how she's changed) seems constructed via other people's glowing descriptions rather than being demonstrated. i…