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The Taste of Things 2023
you simply do not need to swing the camera around the room and swoop in at full speed to get a shot of a pot of soup. i love food movies and should have loved this too, but it made me dizzy so i was disappointed.
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Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind 2004
saw this in the theater followed by a lecture from a neuroscientist who studies memory. he brought up how every time a memory is accessed it’s modified. memories are altered by remembering. he said, “we all have to work very, very hard to hold onto what is real.” you’re going to want those memories. even the bad ones.
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My Neighbor Totoro 1988
i watched this in the theater just before the pandemic and right after i moved to a new apartment. this is my favorite movie that features moving. i've moved nine or ten times in the last twelve or thirteen years and it bums me out every time. after months of apartment hunting and writing checks and changing addresses and packing and moving and cleaning and feeling exhausted by the whole thing, watching this and seeing a depiction of kids finding joy and wonder…
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