xuanlin

xuanlin

love in the dying moments of the 20th century

Favorite films

  • Center Stage
  • Primer
  • Vive L'Amour
  • Friday Night

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  • Bound

    ★★★★★

  • Retomada

  • Mickey 17

  • A Summer's Tale

    ★★★★

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  • Bound

    Bound

    ★★★★★

    terrific every single fucking time!

  • Mickey 17

    Mickey 17

    come back to me on this one but i liked quite a lot of it, was moved by a lot of it: that shot of mickey looking at his reprinted hand for the first time, the unsubtle (as is director bong’s way, beautifully so) juxtaposition between a species that writes off its underclass as expendable versus a species that would risk its mass extinction to save one of its own. i loved the sex and the fact that a sex…

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  • Rye Lane

    Rye Lane

    ★★★★

    “he of the low-res cock” will live in my head FOREVER

  • The Substance

    The Substance

    ★★

    i have never seen a film so keen to treat its audience as relentlessly stupid that it has to telegraph its every choice in big fucko text and flashback/voiceover, i kind of admire it! anyways. this is so clear-eyed and cold in its disdain for food (unforgivable in my books), joy, life, and An Actual Woman’s Body and Skin, that it’s almost like the script got passed through a machine that takes all the parody out of it and just…