personal archive, not an outlet for hardcore media criticism (most of the time) #livelaughletterboxd
Favorite films
Recent activity
AllPinned reviews
More-
I'm Still Here 2024
just left the theater and feeling genuinely beyond moved by this film 💔 I have so many thoughts but primarily I’m struck by Salles’ ability to convey two important messages —
1) how experiencing life, music, nature, love, etc visibly while being forced to live under oppression is an important act of resistance
2) how documenting proof of love, life, and existence under a tyrannical regime (by preserving tapes, letters, newspaper articles, testimonies, cameras etc) is an important act of resistance
on…Translated from by -
Un Chien Andalou 1929
really enjoying revisiting/exploring the works of Luis Buñuel especially in the wake of buzzy, back to back Lanthimos releases. Roger Ebert best sums up my main takeaway from this glorious (and nearly 100 year old!) short -
Un Chien Andalou "assaults old and unconscious habits of moviegoing. It is disturbing, frustrating, maddening. It seems without purpose (and yet how much purpose, really, is there in seeing most of the movies we attend)? There is a wry humor in it, and…
Translated from by
Recent reviews
More-
-
The Royal Tenenbaums 2001
one of those soundtracks that fundamentally changed my life when I discovered this movie in high school
Translated from by
Popular reviews
More-
Real Women Have Curves 2002
the parallels between this and Lady Bird make me so happy Greta Gerwig and America Ferreira collabed on Barbie <333 it truly makes perfect sense, I love women <333
Translated from by -
Working Girls 1986
truly obsessed with Lizzie Borden’s approach to filmmaking, GIVE ME MOREEE
Translated from by
