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'Mozart in Love' and 'The Vanity Tables of Douglas Sirk' are particular favorites.
Dec 19, 2023
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My love for this man’s filmmaking is so profound it could bring me to tears.
Garlic Is As Good As Ten Mothers (1980) gave me more validation than I knew a film could. So much so I made my family sit down and watch it recently. My brother promptly ordered me the books mentioned in the doc. Feeling seen is never overrated.
Special mention to Innocents Abroad (1991) and Always for Pleasure (1978).
Jan 30, 2024
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if you’re interested in film theory ~*academically*~ this is the place to start. makes everything else make more sense later bc everyone in the field has read metz.
some other personal favorites: from caligari to hitler - siegfried kracauer, the classical hollywood cinema - david bordwell/janet staiger/kristen thompson, heavenly bodies: film stars and society - richard dyer (all of these are sort of historical-theoretical but that was my focus in college lol)
Mar 6, 2024
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I‘m always intrigued by his takes/insight, even when I disagree. + he has fantastic interviews with the likes of Herzog and Von Trier.
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When I was 13 the only things that I can remember being particularly fond of were baseball and the Lonely Island - watching the Royal Tenenbaums on TV one night was (at risk of seeming trite) 'life changing' for even just the fact that my adolescent baseball career was on the decline and I needed something new to invest my time in. The montage of Gene Hackman playing with his Adidas tracksuited grandsons set to 'Me & Julio Down By the Schoolyard' indoctrinated me into a life of whimsy, for better or worse.
Jan 5, 2024
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Leaves you feeling a bit sillier about your laments.
Dec 20, 2023
"One of the most common and saddest spectacles is that of a person of really fine sensibility and acute psychological perception trying to write fiction by these qualities alone. This type of writer will put down one intensely emotional or keenly perceptive sentence after the other, and the result will be complete dullness. The facts is that the materials of the fiction writer are the humblest. Fiction is about everything human and we are made out of dust, and if you scorn getting yourself dusty, then you shouldn't try to write fiction. It's not a grand enough job for you."
Jan 13, 2024