alina

alina Pro

10/24 — i don’t rate movies anymore

Favorite films

  • A Whole Night
  • Femme Fatale
  • The Philadelphia Story
  • Demonlover

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  • The Quiet Man

  • From the Clouds to the Resistance

  • Castration Movie Anthology i. Traps

  • Party Girl

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  • The Quiet Man

    The Quiet Man

    left wishing a picture this beautiful played with more than archetypes in the romance, stereotypes in the comedy, painting by numbers in the drama i think i am just not straight enough for this to hit on the rom side and hook my affinity deeply enough

    still it’s hard to come out against the quiet man (hell the title announces archetypes so who am i to complain) when my thought is that if i just didn't speak english, i’d’ve fallen in love

  • From the Clouds to the Resistance

    From the Clouds to the Resistance

    inaugural straub-huillet, i long for political cinema like this, even in the absence of synthetic emotion and dramatics, the love for people and wanting to resist for the sake of living shines; i love movies that are two movies, and six scenes of myth made looking forward and back cannot be more my speed

    matching up well with my reading of peter weiss’s the aesthetics of resistance right now in carrying through the thematics of myth

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  • Castration Movie Anthology i. Traps

    Castration Movie Anthology i. Traps

    maybe the first movie i’ve seen that believes transgenders are the same species as you and me

  • Up, Down, Fragile

    Up, Down, Fragile

    incomparable thrill a well-executed musical