Eloise Ross

valentine's day isn't just for couples, it's also a day to celebrate love. for instance, i would love it if housing prices came down.

Oh nooooo

"Basically 90 min to tell a synopsis that could've been two sentences."

Someone on letterboxd liked a review of mine, so i read theirs for the same film. I've screenshotted one of their comments because it's one of the worst opinions you can have and i need to share my rage. Why even watch movies?!

I'm in a laundromat in Berlin and a young British lad is on the phone, presumably to a parent, asking if he can put his blacks in with his navies and whites because the internet confused him. Bless.

A photo of a white cup with a film camera decoration and the label "Cinema Cafe", on a table with a vase behind it.

Themed glühwein in Berlin

A photo of the Berlinale print program in my lap, which im reading while having a glass of red wine in a dimly lot bar.

Movies....commence!

A ★★★★½ review of Henry Fonda for President (2024) I love the idea of Henry Fonda being so convinced by a play’s realism that left the theatre and, in his words, “scowled at cops.” Taking its lead from an episode of Maude, a sitcom starring Bea Arthur...

I wrote a short response here. It's very good! letterboxd.com/cinemelo/fil...

I did actually watch this last night in my hostel room and it's fantastic! Can recommend for any and all interested in film/history/politics/America. Never a bad time listening to Henry Fonda talk for three hours.

Happy to inspire 🙏

A screenshot of my phone showing Kylie's album Light Years that I'm currently streaming from Tidal.

You might not know this, but if you ever need a mood lift you can just listen to "Your Disco Needs You" by Kylie Minogue

You are allowed to murder someone for that.

Gah, I finally have a chance to see my much-wanted HENRY FONDA FOR PRESIDENT - thank you Le Cinéma Club for streaming it - but I am hostel-living and working on a study tour in Germany for the next two weeks and so worry that I might miss my window!

Rich this is so lovely, thank you!

Haha I'll email you!

Life update... I bought a cinema this weekend!

This is a great question. I think for me it is about teaching them to handle experiences of boredom, frustration, and confusion. Sitting with uncertainty, finding your way through an opaque image, letting go of your need to be better than the film, etc., are all skills that can be taught.

A screenshot of John Wayne, back to the camera, leaning against a rock in the foreground and pointing a gun at a man in the distance, in the film THE RANGE FEUD (1931)

I have to say that despite everything going on in the world and the chaos in my life, I am very soothed by this image from a 1931 film of John Wayne's extremely nice ... *ahem* rear

me watching fascism thrive, considering my options

Yesterday, I saw a photo of Scott Morrison - a photo I've seen many times before - and, the current PM's weak leadership and sycophancy making me feel such profound disappointment and similar anger, for a brief moment I mistook him for Anthony Albanese.

On this January 26, Australia deserves a real leader, not a craven vassal As the international rules-based order becomes a thing of the past, Anthony Albanese keeps Australia locked into a world where we pretend it still exists.

"Albanese is thus yesterday’s man, clinging to the verities of a post-war world that has vanished, stubbornly keeping Australia locked into an increasingly unsustainable fantasy of rules-based orders..." My so-called country's government is utterly sickening at the moment.

Days of Complicity • EQUATOR A legal scholar’s diary of Trump’s return to power

Essential reading to make sense of some of the horror. "People like Stephen Miller and Kristi Noem are deeply un-American ... in the sense that they despise what the country actually is – how it has been demographically, culturally and politically transformed by the twentieth century."

Waiting for something and this is my life right now.

Fun film, worth a watch!

I agree!

For a study tour, but yep we do the festival towards the end

This is a nicely timed reminder because I am flying to Germany in less than two weeks!

When your birthday present lands 💁🏼‍♀️

A photo of a car dashboard that has a handwritten note on it that says: Hey! NICE BUTT

Post a car picture you took

A photo of a felted hand puppet crafted like Ned Kelly, with black "armour" everywhere but its eyes

Australian mythmaking gets crafty... I was tempted by this very cute Ned Kelly hand puppet at a market stall, but as a cultural critic I resisted