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Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy 2025
A cinema of weeping women and obliging boyfriends
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To Live and Die in L.A. 1985
The music was great but I didn’t really understand what was happening
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Lost Highway 1997
ok in all seriousness
this movie is about doubles, stable and unstable pairings.
not just character doppelgängers but also double meanings, and underlying the whole thing a double-logic.
The logic of film and narrative meet with the logic of dreams and compete, neither can win because they're both untrue, even if they are inspired by or depicting "real" things. the main character double (because they are the same guy, two sides of the same coin) are trapped in hellish hypostasis,…Translated from by -
Suspiria 1977
Argento snorts down one more huge line of colombian marching powder. His cast are tired. His crew are falling asleep. Argento leans back in his comical red leather arm chair and swallows another gulp of lukewarm espresso, snapping his fingers, a woman in a linen dress brings him another cigarette. All wait with baited breath. What will maestro have us do, that we can finish this shoot?
"Im not sure we have done enough violence on this lady's face. Let's take another take, eh?"
and so it goes on.
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