Pillion was so good! A sweet, devastating, unapologetically erotic gem with stellar turns by Melling and Skarsgรฅrd - and, I'd hazard, a film with potential wide appeal and resonance despite its niche subcultural focus.
Sometimes I give my house plants a little static shock by mistake and I wonder if they hate me for it :(
If only more films had the audacity of this one to take big weird narrative risks which here pay off tremendously. Ian Kelson is the most genuinely wonderful character, Chi Lewis-Parry infuses Samson's few lines with incredible pathos, and Jack O'Connell is again absolutely horrible (complimentary).
tbt when i read that post to actual damon albarn www.vulture.com/2021/11/damo...
Your show is premised on the existence and (especially within certain industries) enforcement of unrealistic and narrow standards of beauty, not subjective beauty. Casting someone who already meets those standards imo should mean that Rebecca Hall emerges from the cocoon as still-Rebecca-Hall. Idk.
The show opens trying to make us believe that Rebecca Hall has deep-seated body insecurities because she underwent breast augmentation which, I guess, sure, we all have body insecurities... but c'mon.
...in episode 3, comically has this happen to the already unmistakably gorgeous Rebecca Hall. So you have Rebecca Hall, a beautiful person, enter the gooey cocoon and then emerge as another, totally different beautiful person. It's so absurd.
Against my better judgement I began watching Ryan Murphy's 'The Beauty', premised on the existence of some sort of It Follows-esque Scifi STI that, after a period of contorted and uncontrollable interpretive dance, causes you to enter a gooey cocoon and emerge thereafter "beautiful" (and gooey). But
Pour one out
I think this film would have been better received had Fennell simply presented it as an original work, rather than an adaptation. It's more inspired by than based on its source material, and its deviations, especially in regards to race, are damning.
Criticisms of Emerald Fennell's Wuthering Heights are so valid, and yet I still enjoyed it. I wish Fennell pushed the film's conflation of sex and death even further, building on an opening that suggested the indistinguishability of concupiscent and death throes.
DANCE, GIRL, DANCE
MAGGIE'S PLAN
PSA: Some incredible #DirectedByWomen films are leaving the Criterion Channel on 2/28. Catch 'em while you can!
AMERICAN PSYCHO
DANCE, GIRL, DANCE
EVE'S BAYOU
JUST ANOTHER GIRL ON THE IRT
LOST IN TRANSLATION
MAGGIE'S PLAN
MON PรRE, LE DIABLE (Our Father, the Devil)
A NEW LEAF
SLEEPLESS IN SEATTLE
Every day is a good day to watch Amรฉlie
Cinema Paradiso (1988) ๐ซ
Watched Heretic last night expecting some aggressively middlebrow horror - it surpassed my expectations. Very solid, maybe even mildly cerebral, a very fun performance by Hugh Grant. I like him so much more as an evil cryptid, much more in line with 'The Undoing', than I ever did as a romantic lead.
If @criterion.bsky.social released a Park Chan-Wook collection a la the very big and expensive Wes Anderson one, I would purchase it so, so quickly. C'mon, guys, please?
Industry is a show, in case you forgot, that is fundamentally about addiction.
who the fuck WANTS their posts to go viral, have you ever had that actually happen? it's like getting a winning pull on a slot machine if wasps started pouring out the bottom instead of quarters
The Lost Daughter is criminally under-seen.
Absolutely NO ONE is doing it like Park Chan-Wook. No Other Choice WHIPS.
Train to Busan (2016)
dir. Yeon Sang-ho
๐'๐ญ๐ญ ๐ต๐ข๐ฌ๐ฆ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ฎ ๐ฏ๐ฐ ๐ฎ๐ข๐ต๐ต๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ข๐ต.
#filmsky #moviesky
Watch the trailer for Sirฤt, Spainโs official selection for the 98th Academy Awards ๐ช๐ธ
In NY and LA theaters February 6 via NEON
I'm sincerely NEVER going to get over the canceled YoI movie.
But, as we see in the most recent episode of Pluribus, a radical do-no-harm philosophy can also come all the way back around to self destruction.
Mya Taylor in Sean Baker's "Tangerine", 2015
For many characters in Baker's films, the fantasy is an image in which they transcend the struggle of their lives, wherein poverty and social stigma have forced them to build visions of themselves beyond the demeaning and disrespectful gaze of society writ large.
Heated Rivalry is the show I've been waiting for: an angsty but not tragic gay enemies-to-lovers romance, unapologetically sexual AND with an extended club scene set to t.A.T.u.'s problematic and iconic "All the Things She Said," a song that passed for queer rep if you were growing up in the aughts.
I don't know the first thing about this guy but the improvised vampire line was genuinely the best part of Marty Supreme for me.
Post a famous bathroom scene.
I have Thoughts about the end of the first season of Pluribus w/r/t how I felt about the show's trajectory midseason but I am still *digesting*
