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Film at Lincoln Center is currently doing an full retrospective of the iconic Brit filmmaker, Mike Leigh. I got into him doing lockdown when my best friend gave me a list of his films to start off with. Last week I saw Secrets and Lies which won the Palme D’Or in 1996. Afterwards Leigh came out for a Q & A which i couldn’t stay for but I highly recommend, especially on the big screen.
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I'm blown away by how natural and relevant they feel. Especially in his early work, (who's afraid of Virginia Woolf, carnal knowledge, the graduate) he explores the human condition through subtle intimacies and conversations that reveal incredible depths of his characters.
Dec 11, 2023
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Went thru an Ang Lee kick a few years back and found his early movies about taiwanese-American immigrant/blended families reconciling their 2 cultures soooo so heartwarming. Brokeback and The Ice Storm (!!!) two of the most memorable and stylistically sophisticated movies I’ve ever seen. Dude has major heart and a very sweet sense of humor and always picks the sexiest people for main roles.
Antonioni…where do I start.. watch anything that has Monica vitti in it and Blow Up. if you’re not trying to pick apart how his surrealism maps onto Italian history and politics then just come for the sexy people , eerie music, and ridiculous cinematography
Feb 15, 2024
Arrival, The Shape of Water, Call Me By Your Name, Shirley. This man just loves to be in my favourite films.
Nov 8, 2024
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If I’m ever at all anxious, I put YouTube on my TV and watch an amazingly comforting series called Intimate Portraits, which focuses on one woman in Hollywood per episode. The subjects are usually from the Golden Age of Hollywood up until about the 80’s or 90’s. The usually English female narrators talk so slowly and precisely about Bacall’s depression or Garland’s divorces, it weirdly makes me feel so relaxed and distracted. My favorite episode is on Lauren Bacall, and once you watch one, you can’t stop!
Jun 9, 2022
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Since teenagehood I always used my iPhone’s alarms, those horrible sounds to abruptly wake me from sleep and comfort. Now I use a radio alarm clock I got from Sharper Image that slowly gets louder over the course of 2 minutes to whatever station I desire! This makes waking up easier, and slower, less abrupt. You also can get lost in the radio, weekends are for the classical station and weekdays are for NPR. I wake up at 7 or 7:30am and lay in bed for a bit listening to the news and stories, not immediately looking at my phone, which now charges out of reach from my bed, which I also recommend! You can get them at Best Buy for like $20.
Jun 9, 2022
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I read most of Hustvedt’s work when I was in Berlin and Paris in 2019. She writes so beautifully about neurology and illness, neurotypical anomalies, but in a greatly poetic yet digestible way. I suggest one starts with Living, Thinking, Looking (2012).
Jun 9, 2022