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Laramie thinks this is my favorite movie.

Throuple is a total delight from start to finish, gaily making fun of Brooklyn and its art and music scenes while also honoring them. What I found unexpected—that made me absolutely LOVE this movie—was how moving and touching the moments in the relationships were.

I keep coming back to this movie over and over again.

Watched on Saturday December 23, 2000.

a very special movie for me

Watched on Sunday March 12, 2006.

i bought this on dvd ama

Watched on Friday January 24, 2025.

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This beautiful movie spoke to me profoundly. I thought of all my friends who grew up along the Texas border. People I met in Houston or Austin while living there. About our movie Where in the Hell and how it deals with the USA/Canada border. Our friends in Vancouver and Seattle who straddle it. Of our co-producer Hector’s childhood in Nogales. Of my professor Dr. Charles Ramírez Berg’s upbringing in El Paso. Of all the people I have met in Los Angeles, Baja California Sur, San Diego, or San Antonio bisected by the USA/México border. Most of all, I continue to how lovingly depicted the sacred friendship at the center of Hummingbirds is.

I enjoyed this article about their “collaborative apprenticeship model of filmmaking.”

Watched on Friday February 7, 2025.

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Watched on Friday December 31, 2004.

Watched on Friday December 31, 1999.

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Watched on Monday December 9, 2024.

2024-12-28 first impressions: Great movie with outstanding performances from a stellar cast. Go see it in a theater today.

2024-12-31 further reflections: taking a star off for excessive smoking and the renaming of Suze Rotolo to Sylvie Russo. Brian Hiatt writes in Rolling Stone: “Mangold won’t say it directly, but Fanning says she was told it was Dylan himself who wanted the film to avoid using the real name of his first New York girlfriend, Suze Rotolo, who died in 2011.”

www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-features/timothee-chalamet-a-complete-unknown-bob-dylan-cover-story-interview-1235157596/

Lauren Puckett-Pope writes in Elle:

> Mangold provides reference to Rotolo’s work with the Civil Rights Movement and the Congress for Racial Equality, as well as her art studies in Italy, but they are used primarily as fodder for Dylan’s own growth and despair, not the illumination of Sylvie herself. We do not witness Sylvie’s life apart from Dylan, nor do we learn much of the “red diaper baby” childhood that inspired her trajectory. We don’t even learn of the illegal abortion Rotolo underwent after she’d discovered she was pregnant by Dylan. These are the sort of narrative choices I might normally chafe against, watching a woman’s story shrink under the sweep of male genius. But there’s an ironic redeeming quality to Sylvie’s minimization in this film: We, the audience, ultimately feel more aligned with her experience than we do Dylan’s.

www.elle.com/culture/movies-tv/a63265036/a-complete-unknown-sylvie-russo-suze-rotolo-true-story-explained/

That is an interesting take, but I still think Mangold should have refused to rename her since *it is her* they depict in the movie. If it came down to “rename her or no movie,” then fine, yes, I suppose I would have gone ahead and made the movie if I had to make that decision, but it tarnishes an otherwise great story irredeemably.

There is some needless repetition, and I wasn’t a fan of the epilogue (maybe if it had come sooner?), but overall very well written, directed, shot, and edited. Despite some manipulative chronology and narration, several beautifully tragicomic moments dripping with raw honesty and introspection make it worth watching.

Required viewing for USA citizens. 

Chris Jankowski on project REDMAP, a Republican undertaking to use gerrymandering as a national strategy, paraphrased here by Slay the Dragon co-director Chris Durrance:

[Chris Jankowski] took control of a large number of states and basically the lower house of Congress for the best part of ten years and did it in a marathon political sense for peanuts (for about $30 million).

Kieran Culkin does well, but this feels like Jesse Eisenberg reliving a memory and rewriting it. Not sure writing, directing and starring was a great choice. Culkin never quite fit the character of Benji for me, and I don’t think it was his performance as much as the script and Eisenberg’s direction not quite knowing what to do with Benji nor daring to turn the camera around on Eisenberg’s portrayal of David, so to speak.

I liked this but couldn’t fully get on board due to its ruthless attempt to redeem Dave Mathews Band.

Love this, especially the otherworldly botanical life. Manages to speak to our times without preaching.

Producing and editing this movie while Covid raged and the movie industry writhed was equally rewarding and difficult. As we edited, the personal moments Laramie Dennis wove into the script combined beautifully with arresting, resourceful cinematography by Marilyn Flores and Anna Eichenauer’s otherworldly music. Thrilled to bring it to St Louis International Film Festival and Melbourne Queer Film Festival. See you at SLIFF and MQFF 2024!

I worked on this and made a lot of new friends. I knew a bit about sticker culture when we started but learned exponentially more from the amazing community that came together to make and launch Sticker Movie.

PSYCHOMAGIC, A HEALING ART at the Egyptian Theatre, with filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky in conversation with Pascale Montandon-Jodorowsky and Tim Blum

Part of Alejandro Jodorowsky: An American Cinematheque Retrospective

“I am an earthling — after that I’m galactic and then I’m universal,” – Alejandro Jodorowsky

El Topo at Egyptian Theatre with an introduction by filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky

Part of Alejandro Jodorowsky: An American Cinematheque Retrospective

Holy Mountain at the Egyptian Theatre + Q&A with filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky

Part of Alejandro Jodorowsky: An American Cinematheque Retrospective

Movies by Famebot, the micro studio run by Laramie Dennis and me, Ricky de Laveaga.

• Where in the Hell

• Hollywood Capers
• I Haven't Got a Hat
• Pigs Is Pigs
• Fast and Furry-ous
• Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
• My Neighbor Totoro
• The Sky-Colored Seed
• Pom Poko
• Princess Mononoke
• Spirited Away

...plus 9 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.