I write songs, poems, and I guess movie reviews.
❤️ =comfort watch, will revisit a million times.
Honestly pretty worn out, and am watching too many movies at the moment to write anything too long for a minute.
One thing that always gets me so pumped is the prologue of Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981). It is literally a perfectly contained pulp serial short. Location setup, mysterious adventurer draped in shadow, revealed to be a handsome rogue, sneaking into an ancient cave while being betrayed left and right, making it through every booby trap that you…
In early 2022 I was walking through a thrift shop, quickly glancing through books, as I was wont to do in that era, when I saw a name I recognized, but couldn’t quite remember from where. Like a distant memory of something I knew was important. Lisa needs braces, dental plan, Thomas Pynchon-Vineland. I picked it up and looked at the barebones back cover text, and watched helplessly as it tried to unwind all the things contained inside, something I’d…
Currently keeping my stellar run of “films that are masterpieces, but I maybe only saw once or twice, and over twenty plus years ago at least” watches.
I still prefer Princess Mononoke (1997) due to its subject matter, and also for having not a single moment in it that felt touched by a computer (if my memory serves). This one has just one or two moments where the digital seam shone through (Sen on the train towards the end, the passing…