Great movie about class and workplace/sexual politics - though it is a little dated at this point - and at a tight 96 minutes with great performances it‘s an interesting watch with plenty to talk about!
The sheer relatability of this movie 20+ years later is a testament to its wit and charm, as well as to the stubbornness and rigidity of the post-grad corporate experience. CLOCKWATCHERS is reassuring, semi-romanticizing the 9-5 drudgery, while illustrating just how arbitrary the office setting truly is. Relatable! Parker Posey again proves to be the most darling of 90s indie darlings, and I feel a kinship to all of the main characters based on their chunky mary janes alone. Cheers to female friendship, may it exist as fashionably and as rebelliously as capitalism allows!
“Everything is temporary. Everything begins and ends and begins again.” dir. Jill Sprecher Starring Toni Colette, Lisa Kudrow, Parker Posey, and Alanna Ubach. Stellar performance by the late great Stanley DeSantis: queer icon and goated character actor.
Free on Tubi until the end of the month.
A bare indie film from 1998 starring young Toni Colette and a restrained, but peRfEcT Parker Posey - about four girls temping in an office, who find their budding dynamic disrupted by the appearance of an anonymous office thief !
Anyway, I weirdly love it. It’s stranger than it should be allowed to be - and funnier - a good comfort watch.
None of us really spend our time in bland corporate office environments anymore, so it's funny and a bit deranged to remember back to when 9-5 was the premiere terror of all creative independent minds.
A website with a collection of screengrabs from nearly every movie you could think of, and you can sort by film title, director, cinematographer, year, genre, country, etc. Great for visual references for lookbooks, or just to discover a new film you might be interested in seeing! I've attached one of my favorite stills, a great moment from Chungking Express (Dir. Wong Kar-Wai, 1994).
At my local indie cinema for a projection of the new Nosferatu, infinitely grateful I have a place like this I can go to see new stuff and incredible programming!
Just going out and picking up any kind of used physical media (books, CDs, DVDs, cassette tapes) makes the archivist in me happy, like I’m preserving somebody else’s story/ enjoyment of something My personal favorite thing is VHS tapes, I’ve got a decent collection (all thrifted) and they’re usually the cheapest things offered