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Favorite films

  • The Fisher King
  • Some Like It Hot
  • Velvet Goldmine
  • Harold and Maude

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  • The Outrun

    The Outrun

    Loved

  • Queer

    Queer

    I’M NOT QUEER, I’M DISEMBODIED

    I feel so achy 
    beautifully beautifully done

    and you can trust me on this because Burroughs was my favorite writer when I was a weird and lonely teenage girl which means I am more intimately connected with his work and his soul than even the most learned and respected scholars of the beat generation

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  • Les Misérables

    Les Misérables

    ★★½

    okay I feel like I always shit on this one, and maybe I just thought this this rewatch because I am still recovering from the atrocious 1952 film, but this one honestly isn’t that bad.
    it’s obviously very influenced by the musical, it’s Very abridged, and, like many other adaptations, it loses a lot of nuance due to all the cut characters/storylines — this story has a ton of moving parts and interconnected plots and it just feels weird without…

  • Les Misérables

    Les Misérables

    ★★

    this one is Weird because it really only focuses on Valjean which I kind of understand because there’s approximately 70 million characters and Valjean is the protagonist, but ultimately that just doesn’t work because that’s not Hugo’s style of storytelling and obviously you lose SO MUCH depth  when all we really see is Valjean moving from place to place 
    (the pacing is also just so Wack — it’s interesting to see the pacing in any adaptation that came out before…