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Midnight Cowboy 1969
simultaneously very heartbreaking and very funny. i don’t know if im supposed to equate the two but buck’s naivety and goofy enthusiasm and ratso’s nasally voice and barking observations are just too comedic not for me to focus on (also the first lady’s dog baby is soooo fucking ugly i’m obsessed with it).
yet another film this month that pulls the curtains back from the american dream and exposes its true ugliness- disillusionment, poverty, objectification, exploitation (the list goes on)…
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Dallas Buyers Club 2013
guys i promise my clinical research isn’t evil like this guys i swear!!! definition of mamas let’s research i loved the way he went from popping experimental drugs to a fucking phd student but it actually was believable! i’m slightly offput by the decision to make a real-life bisexual man so homophobic in his biopic but i do see how narratively overcoming homophobia and hiv at the same time makes for a great story. really hard to watch in the beginning i almost didn’t make it through but delightfully uplifting and bittersweet by the end. i always love to see steve zahn employed
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A Woman Under the Influence 1974
cemented just how much i find cassavettes to be one of the greatest filmmakers of all time. wow. there’s a lot to say so im just kinda going to let my thoughts out as they come. i think probably the most (and only) enjoyable part of this is the cinematography since the rest of this is not necessarily fun to watch. cassavette’s camera work is so unlike anything else i’ve seen, which is a big part of why i loved…
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Paris, Texas 1984
has anything ever been so beautiful? breathtaking in every single second and just an incredibly moving and fulfilling story of making amends and doing what’s right after doing wrong for so long. every scene when they’re in the call box was so powerful but i was super confused the first time how she didn’t recognize his voice and then when she confessed she hears his voice in every man i just wept!!! initially kind of slow but then everything pays…
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