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personal archive, not an outlet for hardcore media criticism (most of the time) #livelaughletterboxd

Favorite films

  • Supermarket Woman
  • The Young Girls of Rochefort
  • Persona
  • Do the Right Thing

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  • Zoolander

    ★★★★★

  • The Royal Tenenbaums

    ★★★★½

  • All About My Mother

    ★★★★½

  • Crossing Delancey

    ★★★★

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  • I'm Still Here

    I'm Still Here

    ★★★★½

    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 


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  • Un Chien Andalou

    Un Chien Andalou

    ★★★★★

    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…

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  • Zoolander

    Zoolander

    ★★★★★

    someone gift me a copy of this script already 

    FIRST TIME ON THE BIG SCREEN 
    10000th time in my life

  • The Royal Tenenbaums

    The Royal Tenenbaums

    ★★★★½

    one of those soundtracks that fundamentally changed my life when I discovered this movie in high school

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  • Real Women Have Curves

    Real Women Have Curves

    ★★★★½

    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

  • Working Girls

    Working Girls

    ★★★★½

    truly obsessed with Lizzie Borden’s approach to filmmaking, GIVE ME MOREEE