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It's Such a Beautiful Day 2012
DEVASTATING.
Oh god. As great as it is I don’t think I’ll watch it again anytime soon. Oh but it hurts so good. My tears are currently drying up and making my face kind of sticky. Don Herzfeldt, you fucking genius.
This film really is an experience. I don’t even know what to say because whatever comments I have won’t be sufficient to convey the visceral feeling that swallows you whole as you watch Bill live and die and live and die.
It really is such a beautiful day.
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Tampopo 1985
As someone whose college admissions essay was about her hunt for the best bowl of ramen in New York City, I plunged into the culinary world of Tampopo with sheer delight. The movie is about creating the perfect bowl, but it’s also about class relations and, most importantly, love.
Tampopo is affectionately called a “noodle western.” Indeed, although its stetson-wearing hero is a truck driver trying to help a struggling chef and the saloon is instead a ramen house, the…
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