Sick little film for sickos. Would love to know what happened to the frog - did he ever get out of the cage? Did he have a name? Can frogs survive underwater for extended periods of time? Herpetologists of Letterboxd please comment.
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Party Girl 1995
Parker Posey’s delivery of, “I think I’m an existentialist. I do.” is a life changing experience.
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Misericordia 2024
At the Q & A following my screening, Alain Guiraudie said this is a film for fetishists, which seems true to me. He also said it was interested in giving eroticism back to rural, non-young bodies. It succeeds in this.
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Batman Returns 1992
“I am not a human being! I am an animal! Cold blooded! Crank the AC!”
A fitting thesis for Batman Returns, a movie that is as philosophically minded as it is gleefully irreverent. Armed with Daniel Waters’ lethal bon mots, the characters hiss and squawk and stalk with comic book panache, even as they grapple with ideas loftier than your average DC movie.
“You’re just jealous because I’m a genuine freak, and you have to wear a mask,” snarls Danny DeVito’s…
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Bride of Frankenstein 1935
In her (maybe) 5 minutes of proper screen time, Elsa Lanchester’s Bride lives through all the horrors of female subjugation: violence at the hands of men, loss of bodily autonomy, emotional incapacitation, and ultimately, death. She has seen the face of God, and his eyes were filled with violence.
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