kellyryan

kellyryan

Favorite films

  • Breaking the Waves
  • The Piano Teacher
  • Persona
  • Possession

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  • House of Tolerance

  • Conclave

  • Picnic at Hanging Rock

  • Anora

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  • Picnic at Hanging Rock

    Picnic at Hanging Rock

    Someone leaving the theater said « it’s one of the greats but we can’t understand it » and that made me lol. We can’t understand. But you know, it is a man’s depiction of the very numinous and fraught experience of adolescent girls’ initiation into womanhood and so if that amounts to something enigmatic and sensational at best (the score adds so much) and a little confused and campy at worst, I’ll take it.

  • Anora

    Anora

    I was thinking how this plot-that-is-constant-stress thing a la uncut gems is like the contemporary version of crazy car chase I’m like wow!!

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  • Beau Is Afraid

    Beau Is Afraid

    I can’t rate this yet because my viewing at AMC Lincoln Square was interrupted halfway by a pipe burst in the building. It was the scene where Beau as a child is in bed with his mom and she’s like ”she should be so lucky…” —screen goes black and lights turn on and the whole theater just starts exchanging confused mildly paranoid looks. After being primed for an hour and half to feel the outside world is terrifying, my imagination…

  • Everything Everywhere All at Once

    Everything Everywhere All at Once

    ★★½

    so much excess i hate the humor and aesthetic, I promise I’m not heartless this is just not for me.

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