So this wasn't very good but that's okay!
He should have gone full screwball. Always go full screwball. (See: the far superior Tangerine.)
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Gertrud 1964
Saw this on a nasty little 16mm print at anthology. Severely impacted viewing experience I must say. But nothing could prevent me from appreciating Dreyer’s immaculate blocking, Gertrud’s far off look (when is she not far off) as she tells us all life, all love, is a dream. Dreyer makes terrible ice statues of his actors. That first close up shot from Gertrud’s pov is so affecting, we see her husband from above and he looks pathetic and sad and…
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I Saw the TV Glow 2024
Under cooked.
(People are going to talk about how this is an important entry in trans cinema, but to me it is an important entry in ‘autistm cinema.’)
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Beauty and the Beast 1946
Every time the light suddenly falls on the beast’s face like a fucking lance slashing and gleaming through the misty air I lost my miiiiiind. The first time you see his face illuminated, when he sets her down in the bed after he’s taken her through those interminable hallways with all the drapes billowing, I actually was jolted awake from my slightly snoozy state…..magnifique (not the horse)
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