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CRIT. LIST: RYUICHI SAKAMOTO: OPUS (2023)

- I just about held it together until the last song... uncontrollable, like a baby 💔

Screencap of Ryan Gosling in Drive (2011) wearing the mask from that one scene

DRIVE (2011)

- Ryan Gosling is better looking blond, I'll say that much
- I've been wary of Winding Refn because he seemed very Edge over Substance to me and this didn't dissuade me of that
- there's too much fucking shit on me

PEARL (2022)

- she's just a little quirky 😢 be nice to her!

LA LA LAND (2016)
- thought I'd find this annoying or inoffensively charming and it's the former. annoying movie. the songs aren't good. I don't want them to live their stupid dreams
- I'm a big sap and love romance but every single scene between them was unbelievably awkward? What am I missing here

NO OTHER CHOICE (2025)

- again, sillier than I thought (in a good way), also somehow both less and more brutal than I thought (had to watch through my fingers at one point 🦷)

DOUBLE FEATURE: 2026 OSCAR NOMS
FRANKENSTEIN (2025)
- Artificial looking, the 1st half is bloated and the movie beats you over the head to make sure you get that he's the real monster you see???
- Oscar Isaac is hot though

WEAPONS (2025)
- much goofier than I expected
- anti-ad for Campbell's soup

Catherine Deneuve in The Umbrellas of Cherbourg

Catherine Deneuve and Anne Vernon in The Umbrellas of Cherbourg

Nino Castelnuovo and Catherine Deneuve in The Umbrellas of Cherbourg

Screencap from The Umbrellas of Cherbourg

CRIT. LIST: UMBRELLAS OF CHERBOURG (1963)

- very pretty movie but after 5 minutes I was like... oh the whole movie is like this. okay
- but it is very pretty!

love that early american colonial vinyl siding

COUNTING BACKWARDS THROWING MUSES

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YouTube video by Faith No More - Topic Midnight Cowboy (Theme From)

MIDNIGHT COWBOY (1969)

- so good, so sad, so grim but weirdly funny at the same time... the most 'the 60s are over' movie ever probably
- mandatory: youtu.be/OwAlFtRY3FQ?...

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Gotcha—let’s dig into that step by step.

1. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗻𝗼 𝗺𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗵, because I turned you into an amorphous lump of flesh. You’re not just immobile—you’re immortal, and you feel only anguish.

2. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗺. That makes total sense—it’s a natural human impulse, and you’ve been through a lot.

NEW MOON ON MONDAY DURAN DURAN

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A cigarette from Wild at Heart (1990) - 1:16:21

Wild at Heart (1990) - 1:16:21
Dir. David Lynch
Runtime 125 minutes
🚬 x 52, or one cigarette every 2.4 minutes
⚠️ REAL SMOKER MOVIE ⚠️
https://howmanycigarettes.com/wild-at-heart/

Screengrab from Dick Tracy (1990)

Screengrab from Dick Tracy (1990)

Screengrab from Dick Tracy (1990)

Screengrab from Dick Tracy (1990)

DICK TRACY (1990)

- I don't care that the pacing and editing is a constant assault on the senses, I love how this movie looks and I want to eat it to absorb its power

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Juliette Binoche in Three Colours: Blue, wearing high-waisted jeans, a dark shirt and a dark blazer

Juliette Binoche in Three Colours: Blue wearing a dark grey knitted sweater with a folded over collar

CRIT. LIST: THREE COLOURS: BLUE (1993)

- Juliette Binoche is so beautiful and I love how she's styled in this

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Part one of comic. Carol sits on a computer stool despondent with her head in her hands. Her wife Helen is standing with a smartphone set on a tripod. HELEN: I know, baby. It's just one little video. It'll take less than a minute. CAROL: Random House wouldn't make me do this...

Part two of comic. Panel 1: Carol sits up and smooths her hair back, exhaling. CAROL: Alright. I'm ready for my humiliation ritual. HELEN (off-panel): That's the spirit! Panel 2: Carol gestures dismissively while Helen stands with her hands behind her back with a neutral smile. CAROL: At least it's not one of those *stupid* 'look at all the tropes in this book!' type things. I hate those. PANEL 3: Helen looks off to the side. Carol looks at her apprehensively. BOTH: ... PANEL 4: Helen produces a mock-up of a promo for Bloodsong of Wycaro complete with arrows pointing to the book's cover listing all of the tropes within. HELEN: So I talked to Val... Carol buries her face again, frustrated.

[pluribus] honey we just really need that booktok demo

LISA FRANKENSTEIN (2024)

- I want to like this but it's not for me... I'm glad Weird Girl movies are still being made though
- lots of Edward Scissorhands and Heathers comparisons but weirdly the movie I thought about most during this was... Serial Mom

MINDHORN (2016)

- got some laughs out of me but it's so middle of the road, the premise is funnier than the execution... also far too Partridge-adjacent for a film that Steve Coogan is also in

JAWBREAKER (1999)

- SO disappointing... this looked right up my alley but it's: stupid, sexist, homophobic, cringe-inducing, waste of Pam Grier, derivative, unfunny, Marilyn Manson is there

CRIT. LIST: BARRY LYNDON (1975) (film not on your watchlist)

- Would make a great double bill with Draughtsman's Contract if you like a) stunning picturesque landscapes and b) films about obnoxious assholes who get what's coming to them
- That would be 5 hours of period dialogue though so maybe not

TALK TALK LIFE’S WHAT YOU MAKE IT

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GALAXY QUEST (1999)

- so charming and funny I can overlook the frankly excessive amounts of Tim Allen

BOTTLE ROCKET (1996)

- really promising start and enjoyed the end but unfortunately there's an hour of nothing in between except a language-barrier romance that was really weird and off-putting
- also I can't suspend my disbelief that Owen and Luke Wilson are non-related friends, look at them

PORTISHEAD GLORY BOX

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YouTube video by Every Frame a Painting The Bad Sleep Well (1960) - The Geometry of a Scene

CRIT. CHALLENGE 2026: THE BAD SLEEP WELL (1960)

- I liked it (despite the depressingly realistic ending) but the most satisfying part was finally having context for this scene after first watching this a decade ago:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGc-...