silly-ass bioshock fan-movie (thankfully more unserious than people seem to give it credit for) that thrives at its most ambient and incomprehensible; when it lets coppola vibe in after effects and allow characters to crowd around and posture, preach, and babble at, through, and against each other with their mass-market paperback utopianisms, half-jacobean half-cnn political diatribes, and overall f. scott-like libertine decadence -- why coppola would go and ruin it all with a "story" is beyond me (although i was…
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Burn After Reading 2008
"i'm not here representing hardbodies"
somehow a perfect movie (maybe their saddest and funniest) about nothing and everything, leaving us and them with nothing but an impotent heap of surveillance, deception, suspicion, delirium, despair, loneliness, finances, ego, divorce, "mem-wahs", paperwork, and bodies -- so, america
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The People's Joker 2022
so magical and rapturous watching this with a sold out crowd of other trans folks who i assume also suffer from the glorious brain damage of growing up with the "anti-comedic" canon of late night alt-tv and the internet -- and of course with the people's joker herself in attendance. literally felt like we all got atom bombed and went to heaven (or the multiverse) to watch an infinite movie produced by the accumulated excrement of our brain and soul…
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Paint Drying 2016
ok so i think i'm going to start rating things
i doubt this matters much to anyone, but it's a weirdly daunting change for me. there's something that's always felt so reductive about rating works of art — i've felt that star ratings often muddle fruitful, personal engagement with art, turning capsules/reviews/write-ups into expository defenses for the rating rather than personal, subjective, constructive expressions that exist alongside the work
i still feel that way, and will probably continue to spend…
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