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tangerine 🍊
A great Sean Baker movie that takes place on Christmas Eve in LA. All shot on an iPhone 5S and really shows what you can achieve with limited resources. Highly recommend all Sean Baker movies but this is a good place to start.
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@tinwaa
Apr 18, 2024
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@grr
always hard to rec this to friends who loved The Florida Project but “didn’t like the ending”. Seemingly the last movie Baker made that doesn’t feel burdened by financing in a sense, still love Florida and Red Rocket!
Apr 21, 2024
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@tinwaa
grr yeah I feel like this is the perfect sweet spot between his early work and his later projects. Also highly recommend Take Out which Baker co-directs too. Really excited for what he does next
Apr 21, 2024
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@grr
tinwaa Coincidentally ran into some people who worked on post-Sound for Anora at Sundance this year! Super sweet funny people who really hyped up the movie!
Apr 21, 2024
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@aliceb
I watched it for the movie poster, i knew nothing about the plot, and wow. One of my favourite for sure, also for the techincal aspect.
Apr 19, 2024
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@lyssgia
watched on a whim when i was 15, then watched like 3 more times that year. Probably directly responsible for the whole going to film school thing. fire pick
Apr 18, 2024
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@tinwaa
lyssgia yeah I was originally only family with Baker because of The Florida Project but came across this on Mubi while trying to find somewhere to stream FP. Since then got really into his other work. He kind of reminds me a bit of Ken Loach in the focus of his films just in the US context rather than the British. Looking forward to his new movie coming out in the summer.
Apr 18, 2024
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@lyssgia
tinwaa you should check out wasp - andrea arnold and kelly reinhard pre-portlandification (sea of grass is great) both sort sean baker adjacent!
Apr 19, 2024
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@tinwaa
lyssgia heard so much about Andrea Arnold but never dove in! Maybe I’ll start with Wasp. Thanks for the rec!
Apr 19, 2024

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