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Does it get more masterful than Spike Lee’s direction? Does it get more masterful than the voice of Sam Cooke? Does it get more masterful than the visage of young Denzel? Fuck. So good.
Dec 15, 2023
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With the trailer of the new Spike Lee joint being released, it reminds me THAT MALCOLM X is the greatest biopic of all time!!!!!
Denzel is playing three different iterations of man, and it never misses a beat. Everything is seamless, everything flows with such a fury and purity. Spike photographs Blackness so well, the skin glistens from the screen, and I also think it is not a politic movie, but rather a movie about American man and a movie about what it means to live a life in this truly inhumane country!!! It's weirdly so hilarious too, Malcolm is allowed to just be a human going through different moods
May 6, 2025
This is very much subject to change in the near future (I made a promise to myself to watch more than 150 films this year but I'm already on track for 365), but this is just where I'm at right now.
I've always loved Spike, Moonlight resonated with me as a queer person, and Bran Nue Dae is my out of left field pick that I adore from high school film class.
Jan 15, 2025
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Cults! Boats! And great acting!
Mar 23, 2024
Top Recs from @sam_mercauto27
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A joint and a coffee is conventionally accepted as a “hippy speedball;” but given that I’ve quit smoking (my formerly beloved cigarettes, in particular) for all intents and purposes over the last couple years…edibles are my preferred method of marijuana ingestion (if any). Regardless of how you do it…the up and down is beloved for a reason. Mix in a little spiritual jazz…Pharoah Sanders’ golden age is my favorite, personally…now you’re cooking, ladies and germs. Just don’t overdo it on dosage. Then you’ll be feeling way too spiritual and the lightness is tarnished.
Nov 22, 2023
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It’s been discussed here and there on this platform through different recommendations before, BUT I feel that there’s an almost holy level of beauty to Sunday slow-start rituals that needs to be emphasized. Maybe you sleep in a little longer than during a harried work week, maybe you randomly wake up early and quietly steep yourself in the sunlight as it starts to filter into your favorite room in your space, perhaps a physical edition of a Sunday newspaper or periodical to thoughtfully consider (or even to just sort of stare at), slow-sipping that delicious caffeinated beverage you start each and every day with, some warm and cozy jazz or folk accenting the proceedings in the background (centering you spiritually). Treat yourself. Life can rule if you let it.
Jan 21, 2024
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Such a haunting, devastatingly beautiful piece of acoustic brilliance from the late-great outlaw country singer-songwriter. People like him and Townes Van Zandt truly elevated the genre to a form of high art with their gorgeous, lived-in lyricism.
Dec 19, 2023