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La Ceremonie 1995
Sick (unwell, not cool)!
Isabelle Huppert has the worst possible typecast assignment.
Did not like, unsettled me.
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Hairspray 1988
If a gag gift was a movie.
LOVE Jerry Stiller. Have only seen him be hilarious. I wonder about his actual acting range. I'm always so delighted by his characters.
My Mom saw a few minutes of this.
Ma: (asking about Divine) Is that a man or a woman?
Me: That's an icon 💅🏾."I've never been to North Avenue." Lol. I have!
Nice to feel Baltimore through this. The graphic sensibilities of the city are so distinct. I saw…
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A Certain Morning 1992
“Daddy, what is cinema?”
No way to expect that. Art is emotional adjustment. Belief in some parts of our bodies, even if we understand that it’s fallacy on some level. Slight heart rate changes show belief of what conscious mind knows to be made up.
Mentioning that because it feels like Tiga is allegory for the cinematic viewer. His “real” reaction to filmed danger feels justifiable. Yet most viewers watch that without the same sense of panic.
I imagine an…
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Mist Melodies in Paris 1985
Yeaah 🙃! Can't help but think of Van Peebles in Paris.
I always love when a film refracts ideas of performance. It's so apt that this is short too. Form-wise, to show racism as an effective disruption, as a cleaver to the more universal human experiences of peoples oppressed by racism was very tactful. I wish they woulda let that man act out that mental health crisis. But it's such a rhyme that he wasn't able to. And an illumination of the limits of cinema when target audiences aren't receptive.
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