Ashley

Ashley

Favorite films

  • I Saw the TV Glow
  • Paris, Texas
  • Harakiri
  • Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives

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  • Paris Is Burning

  • The Long Goodbye

  • The Big Sleep

  • The Gorge

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  • Paris Is Burning

    Paris Is Burning

    Deeply moving and important. Disgusted that the documentarian and producer did not pay anyone involved when they were living in poverty. However, that aside, this is one of the most significant documents of queer existence ever put to film. Especially right now it is so important that we remember that we cannot be erased.

  • The Long Goodbye

    The Long Goodbye

    I loved this a lot. I could watch this specific version of Marlow do just about anything and be entertained by it. I legitimately want to watch him take care of his cat. 
    This is such a miserable vision of the 1970’s that’s drowned in expensive alcohol and brain dead assholes who have too much money. Amazing shit.

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  • I Saw the TV Glow

    I Saw the TV Glow

    ★★★★★

    I’ve been in the closet for almost thirteen years. Even after preparing to watch it for weeks, I was not ready for what this film told me about myself.
    My girlfriend is comforting me, telling me about how it's gonna be okay, that I can transition one day. That she knows from experience there is hope. I hope that this stops. I want to stop suffocating. There is still time.

  • Midori

    Midori

    ★★★★½

    I don’t think I’ve ever seen another movie even come close to capturing the raw horror of coming into and relying on a group of people that become your main connection to this world, who go on to groom and abuse you. An absolutely suffocating nightmare. 
    This film was relatable to me in a way that I never want something to be. Midori is the kind of film that gnaws at you until it eats you alive, and it leaves…

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