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  • Catch Me If You Can

    ★★★★

  • Victor/Victoria

    ★★★★★

  • mid90s

    ★½

  • Animal House

    ★★★½

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  • Catch Me If You Can

    Catch Me If You Can

    ★★★★

    Really checked a lot of boxes for me. Lot of printmaking (wow) letterpress (wow) depiction of France as a backwards country (wow) and said French letterpress factory (WOW). Kind of pro-cop for my taste. But it literally is just Leonardo in the 60s harnessing the bottomless power of listening to women and reconstructive printmaking. Amazing.

  • Victor/Victoria

    Victor/Victoria

    ★★★★★

    Honestly life changing movie. I think a lot of people dismiss it before watching bc they think it’s a derivative understanding of drag/transness, but it’s really incredibly complex and understands a queer way of gender presentation I haven’t really seen before, especially considering that it was in production from 79-82 and directly affected by AIDS (since one of the actors died before they started filming). It really feels written by gay people, the dialogue is quick and biting, all of…

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  • Salomé

    Salomé

    ★★★★

    Mostly vibes. Incomprehensible plot description on Wikipedia was a bit of a roadblock to knowing what the hell anyone was saying or doing. Couldn’t commit to being fully Christian or fully horny. Flawless and stunning surrealist costuming and set (Nazis and factory aesthetic in 27 BC) wish it was even more prominent. Very 80s.

  • Romeo + Juliet

    Romeo + Juliet

    ★★★★★

    yeah I get gender euphoria from this and you can’t give me shit