Doing this more to organise my own thoughts in the moment. I try to judge by what a film is going for.
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Sing Street 2016
I think one of my favourite things about this film is the way it celebrates the place music has in our culture, in forming bonds together. The scene where they watched Top of the Pops feels like a relic of times gone by, not because this is set in the 1980s but because there’s no real way for everyone to experience music together. The monoculture brought by radio and MTV doesn’t exist, and we’re all siphoned off into our own musical…
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Droopy Leprechaun 1958
Droopy’s vacation to Ireland felt like the perfect St. Patrick’s Day short.
Droopy being mistaken for a Leprechaun by Spike, who he in turn mistakes for a ghost, makes for a lot of fun. The final gag, inside the Paddy Wagon, is perfection.
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Queer 2024
Luca Guadagnino has sort of made a name for himself in queer cinema, with his two biggest films dealing with queer themes. Call Me By Your Name was all about youthful longing, pretty people in beautiful and faraway places. Everything about it is so distanced, with even the sexualisation of the men isolated from each other and their scenes together having an intimacy without ever touching on anything that really goes beyond the tame teen stories that followed in its wake…
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The Color Purple 2023
I have never seen the original film. I had no idea what this film was about beyond a vague sense that there were sisters who get separated.
Good god damn. Not only is this story just incredible, with incredible songs and magnificent performances that just… you feel that emotion. But on top of all of that, the direction is fabulous in both the big and smallest moments.
I love how beautiful the queerness was depicted. It’s clearly taking place in a…
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