Proud to appear in the credits as a kickstarter backer amidst such luminaries as Elizabeth Purchell & Kier-la Janisse 😇 Comparing Castration Movie to Mike Leigh’s work is understandable, but I think this has more in common with Mary Bronstein’s Yeast, both formally & in the depiction of “relationships” that function more as elaborately concealed coping mechanisms. First Turner, the one true incel, who can’t get laid even when he has a girlfriend, eternally prisoned in an impotent male husk. Then Michaela,…
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Promising Young Woman 2020
not even coherent enough to trigger me, which is a bad joke at my expense but primarily an insult. pyw amounts to a series of “facts” the film finds self evident, or they would be if they weren’t communicated through this fantasy world constructed within the narrative that seems to be continuously gaslighting itself. this is perhaps why so many feel obligated to “expose” the films true violence, not as much to one another but to the voice of the…
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Law of the Border 1966
incredible film starring the "ugly king" himself, yilmaz güney in a highly culturally specific twist on the western's classic preoccupations with dichotomies like the wild west vs domestication, or the violent past of a land that was necessary to insure an opposing civilized future where those lawless men cannot survive...where law of the border differs perhaps from american westerns slanted on justifying our genocidal past is in its transparent disdain of this so-called civilized future as dictated by the governmental…
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Impudence in Grunewald 1969
quite a sweet film actually....couples eat worms together, shit on each other, and share a relaxing smoke at the end. such tender moments...
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