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1953

★ Watched 27 May 2025

That this felt like a public information film is no doubt proof that Ed Wood is an utterly terrible writer in narrative cinema and also that transness could not be approached in the 50s without it becoming some educational exercise in reinforcing normativity. Educational if only to view the ideological work at play in medicalising and psychoanalytically reducing transness. Pretty shit film. Also a bit of a violation that this was a collab with pride soc...

1967

★★★½ Watched 19 May 2025

Highly Freudian. Supplemented appropriately by the most suffocating bourgeois home decor yet encountered.

Also: Marcel, take me.

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1997

★★★★★ Liked Watched 14 May 2025

I attempted writing a novella in my early teens (of questionable, indeed poor, quality) in which the conclusion entailed a single, lonely suicide. It was on a bench, that universal figure of contemplation and solitude, but I say attempted because I never finished it. It seems that some things fade. Some fascinations strain your eyes, obsessions if we permit ourselves, make the mark on your left arm numb. Others smell like rain by a pool, or the custard tart that…

1988

★★★ Watched 29 Mar 2025

Pompous Interview Checklist (note: I do love most of these people nevertheless - David Tibet, John Balance, Sleazy 🫶):

- average people are idiots ✅️
- civilisation is collapsing ✅️
- popular music is bullshit ✅️
- references to surrealism and the unconscious (incorrectly labelled as the subconscious smh) ✅️
- vague and insubstantial allusions to the establishment without reference to any concrete political theory ✅️
- "we don't claim to be doing anything unique or groundbreaking (but we sort…

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