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  Leila and the Wolves 1984

  ★★★★★ Watched 16 Mar 2025

  the cacophonous soundtrack reminded me of christian ghazi’s hundred faces for a single day, only with women making all the noise: assembling rifles, wailing lament, encrypting guerrilla maneuvers as wedding songs. and like ghazi’s film, her critique whirls inwards—srour condemns both the wolves and the callous shepherd (father, husband). “serve the revolution? who would serve him, then?”

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  Popeye 1980

  Rewatched 14 Jan 2025

  i’m the Wimpy of the group (deals mindset)

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  Transexual Menace 1996

  ★★★★ Watched 11 Jun 2022 1

  leslie feinberg: “so much exists that we don’t have language for”

  rosa von praunheim, germanically: “you have a wonderful button…it says, sexy bitches wear big red buttons”

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  Crimes of the Future 2022

  ★★★★ Watched 03 Jun 2022

  Cronenberg says he started writing this screenplay 20 years ago, and the result feels older still, a mutant descendant of his earliest work. Everyone talks like a hardboiled art critic, wandering through bare rooms, holding the narrative momentum close to zero. Rather than U of T’s brutalist buildings, he earned some tax credits shooting Crimes of the Future in Athens, where Viggo Mortensen and Lea Seydoux create their surgical theatre. Ships rust on the shore of a poisoned sea, breeding new denizens…

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