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oomf and i started season 1 of Rivals which is utter slop for middle aged woman gooners. and we watched 5 episodes straight and were having a blast the whole time

happy birthday emma!!! so glad we became oomfs this year bc i love seeing all your thoughts on the tl. movie that's been eating my brain recently is compartment no 6 which i watched bc it's like The Cooler Anora, but my fave of the year (besides all we imagine as light) is probably perfect days

when matt damon pushed cooper off the cliff i was sitting there and shaking my head to let everyone know that if he had listened to women this never would have happened

i remember when i saw it i kept looking at steven pasquale and amber gray and thinking "when are they going to sing"

the way everyone from awards voting bodies to tumblr users apparently forgot about dune 2

interesting... this description of a film was created in a lab to appeal to me

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happy thursday open.spotify.com/playlist/5mK...

like wow it sounds like she's amazing in it. can i see it

every time i see a new result for a critics group i think Wow i love marianne jean baptiste in hard truths... would love to see it someday

literally what is the point of being a creative in community theatre looking to improve your craft and then just watching a broadway bootleg and doing exactly what they did... was it worth it. was it worth me losing all respect for the production and liking it far less in retrospect

me taking back my effusive praise because i found out that they copied like 80% of the show from a broadway production

i ❤️ seeing a piece of mid-budget theatre that reinvigorates my faith in and love of the art form

regardless, i will never forget the methlike high of watching little women 2019 in the theater and realizing that they were actually giving the "amy in europe" part of the story substantial screentime rather than just shunting it to the side. Amy MARCH💜

it's so funny thinking about how when i was 11 or w/e getting on the internet for the first time i looked it up and was stunned to find that people really hated amy. 2019 film fixed her reputation but kinda overcorrected and now people misunderstand her in a different way

like i'm not REALLY an akgae because i pretty much like all the characters, it's one of my favorite books of all time, of the sisters i'm the most like jo, etc, but in the end the amy march stannie always comes out. that's just how i engage w the text. through an amy march lens

i can never talk about little women seriously because i'm an amy march akgae and i have been for like 15 years so that colors every single opinion i have about it

it's pure greed that he got to have two earth-shattering yaois and be the best baseball player in the world

the most insane part of the story is when ippei was directly confronted about this by the team in english and shohei was IN THE ROOM but he couldn't understand so ippei lied about what was going on IN JAPANESE because the english speakers couldn't understand that. bonkers. where's the biopic

and then you became the best player in the world and the whole time your interpreter was with you and was the one person you could always rely on and then one day you found out that he was stealing millions from you to fuel his gambling addiction and also he had lied about his college degree

the shohei and ippei story will forever be famous to me like imagine if your star was on the rise so you joined a foreign team and you didn't understand the language but you had your interpreter who was your best friend and also your conduit for experiencing the world and vice versa

it might have been a bit cloying if it only showed hirayama as contented with his life of helping others without seeking recognition, but the fact that his loneliness and desire to be important to someone live alongside his kindness/selflessness makes it very good

now i'm thinking again about perfect days... a great film that made me glad to be a human being whose life intersects with the lives of other human beings. and also reckons with the contradiction of the desire to be selfless/good vs the desire to be loved/needed which feels inherently selfish

yes so true re: the rice cooker scene's placement in the film! it shapes your understanding of the character but it's also just one part of her. and yeah, a documentary starts being subjective the second you decide on the subject(s) and therefore decide this story is worth telling LOL

Bright (Take 22) Original Cast of Stereophonic, Will Brill, Juliana Canfield, Eli Gelb, Tom Pecinka, Sarah Pidgeon, Chris Stack · Stereophonic (Original Cast Recording) · Song · 2024

i really really wish stereophonic had a proshot purely because i want to relive the high of the act 1 closer again and in fact i think everyone deserves to experience it open.spotify.com/track/6BT6Hh...

and i can't help but contrast this with, like, the rice cooker scene in all we imagine as light... in that moment we totally understand this woman's loneliness and longing. would it have been too hard to include even one moment like that for ani? this is why sean baker is a fake fake documentarian

literally like i know you don't look at interviews but i'm addicted to it so something mikey always says is that ani only lets her facade crack in private moments, but the only one she ever points to is... the ending. that's like the only even semi-private moment we get with her

see what happens when you ACTUALLY shoot a "docu-style" film which is interested in understanding the characters and unearthing the heart of them... almost like the camera's decision to show or not show something is inherently judgmental... fake documentarians when a real documentarian comes at them

so glad you posted about it and reminded me to buy a ticket since it ends its theatrical run here today!! truly a film bursting at the seams with loneliness/love/life, i can only see myself liking it more and more as time goes on

The Homeless Wanderer Emahoy Tsege Mariam Gebru · Spielt Eigen Kompositionen · Song · 1963

i can't even say "i'm going to kill myself" which is my default response to experiencing really good art because it was good in an incredibly life-affirming way. i'm going to LIVE open.spotify.com/track/5P8Unn...

i didn't cry during (came close once or twice) but afterwards, now that i'm mulling it over, so much about it is making me want to cry. which again is just like perfect days! love a film that seeps into you slowly and makes you feel deeply melancholy in a way that also makes you glad to be alive