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"DOWN WITH LOVE cleverly uses exaggeration & artifice to rocket past pastiche and into a new space where it utilizes the genre’s shenanigans in order to comment on the genre itself." https://t.co/5q1YDQk7Mn
GREASE Is the Time, Is the Place, Is the Motion https://t.co/vxSf36fZ6T
Happy birthday to Pedro Almodóvar, whose brilliant LAW OF DESIRE “repurposes the classic melodrama to tell a series of suppressed narratives with the visual and sentimental poetry they merit.”
-@UrsulaMunozS13
Art by @haystackmanning
https://t.co/cfN81dJ8ob
"Taken as a body of work, the Before trilogy asks us to consider the tension between its fantasy & naturalism, and the extent of our own ability to exert similar control over a lonely world that ushers us through life without concern for whether we’ve found any meaning in it."
“Removed from the tangle of time travel, DONNIE DARKO is really just a *mood*. Tears for Fears and Sparkle Motion and bunny suits and Cherita in her earmuffs. Fragments that float like chum on seawater. Annihilating the agreeable as an act of creation.” https://t.co/kKxS5X1ph6
"A GHOST STORY is almost impossible to talk about without diminishing the experience. It does something to you that you don't quite have words for. In fact, words are almost beside the point—the film is so simple & sparse as to be nearly irreducible." https://t.co/nIW0SQerMa
"This is where humiliation lives: in the gap between the self we want to be and the self we actually are."
- Isabel Cole on EIGHTH GRADE https://t.co/jfjRN6x3Zb
New today on the site:
@Overstweet makes his BW/DR debut with a personal look at the death-sentence testimonies in BLADE RUNNER, WINGS OF DESIRE, and NOMADLAND
(art by @GMillsFineArt)
https://t.co/6VG7qZr6Qa
"In THE HUNGER...unlike Deneuve’s early films, she is not portrayed as exiled from reality—rather, the human world falters in her sight. To look at her is to be enchanted."
-@wolfandfox
🎨: @brianna_ashby
https://t.co/l6EEqTazbz
Before binging the @criterionchannl's BRAIN-MELTING 1980s Horror lineup in October, prep yourself with our deep-dive reads into some of the films!
First up:
@dodgyboffin on the undead Americana and myth of the West in NEAR DARK! 🎨 by @haystackmanning:
https://t.co/JVM1SKTkzi https://t.co/JdBjYU2ilh