Exotica

1994

★★★★★ Watched

tells us that humans (men?) build patterns to return to that one ephemeral 'true' moment. if you are a woman your image (mirror, veil) will repeat itself as mask under a violence that feeds on itself and slips past you. the schoolgirl, the mother. even though egoyan crafts a film of profound distance and individualization, of projection and disconnect it ends on a note of tenderness. a touch inside the simulation.

mia kirshner u are everything. jenny's backstory for the Actually Good L-Word that only exists in my mind.

I'm like a bird

Memoria

2021

★★★★½ Watched

Apichatpong loml

Long Day's Journey into Night

2018

★★★★½ Watched

The difference between a movie and memory is that movies are always false. In a movie one scene follows after another. But memories mix truth and lies. They appear and vanish before our eyes.

This, similarly to Kaili Blues, captures the opacity of memory and dream, diffracted through the cinematic in unique poetic gestures. The multiple objects and subjects which appear and disappear to appear again in a different place don't have fixed meaning. The apple, the lost lover, the…

Hotel

2004

★★★★ Watched

Der Wald steht schwarz und schweiget.


realistic: liminal, remote hotel haunted by feral old lady ghost

unrealistic: Dorfdisco in rural Austria playing techno

Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte

1964

★★★★½ Watched

Bette Davis...*chef's kiss*

Reality Fragment 160921

2017

★★★★★ Watched

Breathtakingly beautiful.

The Tree House

2019

★★★★ Watched

What makes a house a house? What makes a home a home? How does memory shape the places we inhabit/ed?

The Carp and the Seagull

2012

★★★★ Watched

Very interesting approach, loved the spatial dyanmics.

Destroy, She Said

1969

★★★★★ Watched

"She looks at the void." - "Yes, but well. She looks at the void well."

Limbo. Intimate strangers, alienated knowledge, violent absence. Eternity. Arborescence. Timelessness. Merging, blurred boundaries of hazily circumscribed subjects. Languid terror.

No Hard Feelings

2020

★★★★★ Watched

Fucking perfect. Amazing performances, beautiful images, stunning cinematography, radiant, raw, funny, melancholic and fucking hot.

Purple Sea

2020

Watched

Deeply somatically uncomfortable, experiential and politically important film which would have maybe worked out better in an art exhibition context than a cinematic one.

Ida

2013

★★★★½ Watched

A socio-political roovie with a nun as its central character? Dare I say my jam?