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  Amadeus 1984

  Watched 11 Mar 2025

  It's of course wonderful but the all girls high school production I saw 10 years ago is still #1 in my heart

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  Dancer in the Dark 2000

  Watched 04 Mar 2025

  A lot of the reviews on this seem to regard Selma as this very passive character who suffers absolutely cruelty for no reason; in truth, she makes choices all along the way. A big component of Selma’s decisions to suffer (the kind of decision LVT explores so often through different cultures of gender, class, and genre) comes from LVT’s exploration of a certain kind of former soviet, first generation immigrant femininity, one that appears as total selflessness (especially in comparison…

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  Universal Language 2024

  ★★★★ Rewatched 18 Feb 2025

  I fear non-Winnipeggers may assume the turkeys are just a kind of random humorous motif so I will go on the record here, in front of god and letterboxd, that when I lived in Winnipeg I was late for work on two separate occasions because free roaming packs of turkeys interrupted my bus route.

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  The Girl Most Likely To... 1973

  ★★★★ Watched 24 Sep 2024

  to my toronto mutuals, please don't look at my rating and heart and seek this out on your own - I will be planning a watch party

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