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metaphor-woozy chromophile; big fan of the extreme, magically avant-garde or tenderly plot ambivalent
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Cast a Deadly Spell 1991
The Cthulu Mythos meets The Lady From Shanghai by way of Total Recall 2070. Note, beloved trash collector, that I do not stutter. Prepare your drinking game apparatus.
I'll confess I watched because of the poster's relationship to TR2070: Fred Ward as Detective Lovecraft (no really) lit with the same blazingly obnoxious terracotta TV-noir clag as Michael Easton in the rightly cancelled but wrongly forgotten late 90s gem. There's a vulgar deco revival font up top (cheekily shadowed little Huxley…
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Remains to Be Seen 1989
Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space: Drowning in a cumulative sea of seemingly gradual informational dripfeed, too incomprehensibly numerous for either curation or cognition; too flowing, too liquid now to ever extricate from itself for analysis, or for a comforting tale of origination rather than decay.
We are held down, pulled under by the roar and glimmer of micro-distraction, the murmuration of which forms any face we like, any act of love or recognition we deeply and secretly…
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The Snowman 1995
Blankness as a crawling texture which tangles and overwhelms us - a blizzard of ideas to be filled in around a sure thing, while we recreate its context in our process of remembering.
Nothing is replayed exactly as it originally existed, so once we can no longer deny that nostalgia (and grief) is a writing and overwriting process, it might occur to us that we bury and suffocate that which we sought to recover; trying to love it again one…
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Mysterious Skin 2004
RIP Michelle Trachtenberg - an entire queer and alt generation's encouraging teen friend or sweet, stubborn little sister.
Testament to her abilities that she was older than me and yet I still felt so irritated/amused/protective over her, and now kinda devastated. 39 is ludicrously young, even with a 36 year career.
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The Brutalist 2024
Edit: If you’re reading this, I CHALLENGE THEE
I suspect it will quickly become a clichéd thing to say about this film, but The Brutalist made me tearful a lot, and physically shook me at points. It moves and is immovable.
I cried about inspiration; about the client relationship vs the muse; about collaboration and dedication(s); about the holocaust and the people surviving and trying to comprehend its aftermath; about bringing together and shattering apart; about the cyclical dream of…
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