Ryley

Ryley

Favorite films

  • The Great Beauty
  • L'Avventura
  • Kings of the Road
  • Muriel, or the Time of Return

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  • Le Bonheur

    ★★★★½

  • Theorem

    ★★★★½

  • Last Night in Soho

    ★★★

  • Gran Turismo

    ★★½

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  • Le Bonheur

    Le Bonheur

    ★★★★½

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  • Theorem

    Theorem

    ★★★★½

    Someone once told me I had 'alarmingly blue eyes' and I never understood what that was supposed to mean... But now I do. I've always loved the way that the curly-haired angel guy comes with rock and roll in place of heavenly trumpets. Anne Wiazemsky is so cool that even though she spends like half the runtime cosplaying me-- in bed in a waking coma instead of doing schoolwork-- she still manages to be my favourite member of the family.…

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  • When the Cat Comes

    When the Cat Comes

    ★★★★½

    I’ve recently been taken to task for letting my letterboxd die before it even lived, so lesgooo:

    In this one, a loveable schoolteacher, a rebellion of third graders, an epic pantomime, a whimsical old castellan (did castellans still exist in the 1960s?), and a magic cat with sunglasses I’d like to borrow and not give back carry out the most iconic send-up of the Czechoslovak-Socialist political order since Marie 1 and Marie 2 swung on the chandelier at the end of Daisies. Surreal slay.

  • Party Girl

    Party Girl

    I’ve been trying to find this movie for the last three months because when Parker Posey describes the night she spent in the NYPL as “possibly the wildest night of my existence,” I feel extremely validated. All of my professors keep telling me that there is no money, no opportunity, and no hope in special collections, but if I can be even half as empowered by the indescribable beauty of the library sciences, I’ll die a rich man anyway. It’s…

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