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Crisping Lover
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cine sister/film feminista

(non-serious film-art appreciation account)
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Bonnie and Clyde, 1967 Artur Penn

"If you're still in need of something to read, here's the story of Bonnie and Clyde..."

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Still image. Old dara driving on road obscured by grass. Still image. Faye Dunaway's mouth. Still image. Faye Dunaway being shot in a car. Still image. Warren Beatty holds Faye Dunaway sobbing in cornfield.
February 15, 2026 at 11:15 PM
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Queen and Slim, 2019 Melina Matsoukas

"Thank you for the journey, no matter how it ends."

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Still image. Flat bed truck in a petrol station. Still image. Jodie Smith-Turner sits on a car bonnet looking down at Daniel Kaluuya. Still image. Daniel Kaluuya drives and Sophie Smith Turner loks back. Still image. Daniel Kaluuya carries Sophie Turner on a runway.
February 15, 2026 at 10:58 PM
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Easy Rider, 1969 Dennis Hopper

"You know Billy, we blew it!"

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Still image. Esso petrol station. Still image. Dennis Hopper and Jack Nicolson talk intimately. Still image. Peter Fonda. Still image. Karen Black in fishnets in a New Orleans graveyard (i think) and Dennis Hopper.
December 22, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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River of Grass, 1994 Kelly Reichardt

"Lee and I had crossed that straight line my Dad called the law."

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Still image. Palm trees lining a road against a blue sky. Still image. Lisa Donaldson admires Larry Fessendons' hand under a red light at a bar. Still image. Cloae of Larry Fessendon with a 'Mom' tattoo on his arm. Still image. Lisa Donalsson holds out her arms against the sky as she balances on a kerb by the roadside in the Florida Everglades.
December 22, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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True Stories, 1986 David Byrne

"Some people say 'Freeways are the Cathedrals of our time'. Not me."

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Film poster. David Byrne in a large hat reads a newspaper displaying the films title. Still image David Byrne stood in front of a building in a black suit and hat looking into the camera. Still image. David Bryne behind the wheel of a large automobile (a Chrysler LeBaron Convertible apparently). Still image. David Byrne in a field in sunglasses without a hat.
December 11, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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Wise Blood, 1979 John Huston

"...the Church of Christ Without Christ. Where the blind can't see, the lame don't walk, and the dead stay that way."

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Film poster. Bright yellow background with an image of Brad Dourif in his large hat with the other main characters posing on its brim. Still image. Brad Dourif looks thoughtful in the night in front of a building with the red neon words 'Jesus Cares' on top. Still image. Brad Dourif stans on an old car (a 1954 Ford Crestline Victoria according apparently) preaching to a small crowd of people. Still image. A man in a gorilla suit.
December 11, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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Night of the Hunter, 1955 Charles Laughton

"Lord said the little children. The wind blows, and the rains are cold. Yet they abide."

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Theatrical release poster. Shelley winters kneeks in a pink nightgown clinging to a clothed Robert Mitchum. Still image. Robert Mitchum sings a cheerful song driving a car. Still image. Sally Jane Bruce and Billy Chapin look through a cellar window. Still image. Lillian Gish on a porch swing with a shotgun.
December 10, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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Wild at Heart, 1990 David Lynch

"Don't turn away from love, Sailor. Don't turn away from love. Don't turn away from love."

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Spanish film poster. Laura Dern throwing back her hair, Nicolas Cage, a car, a spectacular sky. Still image. The most sinister grinning William Defoe and Isabella Rossellini in a cadillac (?) In the desert. Still image. Laura Dern and Nicolas Cage in a 1957-58 Plymouth Fury at night. Still image. Sheryl Lee in a big pink fairy outfit in a big pink fairy bubble in the sky.
December 10, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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Interview with the Vampire, 1994 Neil Jordan

"The statue seemed to move, but didn't. The world had changed, yet stayed the same. I was a newborn vampire weeping at the beauty of the night."

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Film poster. A very pale Tom Cruise with red lips enjoying himself with Helen McCrory. Still image. Exterior of a very big old house lit by candlelight. Still image. Brad Pitt in a swamp. Still image. Close up of Kristen Dunst looking angelic.
December 8, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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Angel Heart, 1987 Alan Parker

"However cleverly you sneak up on a mirror, your reflection always looks you straight in the eye."

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Film poster. Mickey Rourke's reflection in a cracked mirror, black background, red and white text. Still image. Mickey Rourke walks along period 1950s New Orleans street. Still image. Mickey Rourke in a shadowy hall way exiting an old elevator. Still image from deleted scene. Mickey Rourke holds a bloody razor with the word TELCOA written on the wall behind him.
December 8, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans

"You think fish have dreams?"

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Film poster. Nicolas Cage naps out with a lizard skeleton on his face. Still image. A big white house with a porch and trees with Spanish moss hanging down. Still image. Eva Mendes sitting on steps in the shade. Still image. Nicolas Cage takes a moment out of important police work to commune with an invisible iguana.
December 5, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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King Creole, 1958 Michael Curtiz

"There's a man in New Orleans who plays rock and roll
He's a guitar man with a great big soul..."

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Film poster/newspaper advert. Elvis Presley and Carolyn Jones look sultry in a bar with the tagline 'A Story Pulsing With The Heartbeat Of Today's Youth'. Still image. Kitty White on cart with horse in the French Quater of New Orleans. Still image. Elvis Presley in a nightclub in white jacket and black bow tie giving someone a very hard stare. Still image Walter Matthau and Carolyn Jones enjoying the performance on stage.
December 5, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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Elvis, 2022 Baz Luhrmann

"...I've been lost. And when you're lost, people take advantage."

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Film poster. Austin Butler on stage in pink suit connects with his audience. Still image. Graceland Interior. Olivia DeJonge and Austin Butler feel the space between them. Still image. Close up of Black and white Floersheim patent leather shoes; pink trouser legs and mic stand. Still image. Elvis sign at Las Vegas Hilton.
December 1, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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Priscilla, 2023 Sofia Coppola

"Cilla, this is never gonna work if you don't share my interests and philosophies."

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Lobby card. Elvis and Priscilla about to kiss on wedding day in front of a big white curtain. Still image. Graceland exterior. Still image. Cailee Spaeny applies black liquid eyeliner. Still image. Elvis sign at the Las Vegas Hilton.
December 1, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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Stoker, 2013 Park Chan-wook

"My ears hear what others cannot hear; small faraway things people cannot normally see are visible to me..."

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Film title. The word 'Stoker' written in black ink with a fountain pen on cartridge paper. Still image. Mia Wasikowska sits in the branch of a tree looking into a white box wearing a white summer dress. Still image. Mia Wasikowska lies in the middle of a white bed in a white dress surrounded by shoes in various sizes in white shoe boxes placed in a horseshoe around her. Still image. Mia Wasikowska in a blouse, skirt and heels walks across a road away from a police car at a hazy distance.
November 30, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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Sex, Lies, and Videotape, 1989 Steven Soderbergh

"This isn't supposed to happen. I've spent nine years structuring my life so this didn't happen."

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Film poster. Andie MacDowells face and lots of hands. Green background. Still image. Rays' Bait Shop. Still image. The Bayou. Still image. James Spader, his armpit and lots of checked cushions.
November 30, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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The Beguiled, 1971 Don Seigel

"The Corporal seems to be having an affect on all of us."

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Lobby Card. Pamelyn Ferdin shows Clint Eastwood through some woods. Lobby card. Clint Eastwood clings to an iron gate and looks up. He is in pretty bad shape. Lobby card. Geraldine Page provides some comfort. Lobby card. Mae Mercer concentrates on shaving Clint Eastwood in a kitchen.
November 29, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, 1958 Richard Brooks

"What is the victory of a cat on a hot tin roof?"
"Just stayin' on it I guess, long as she can."

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Bright yellow film poster with red text. Elizabeth Taylor lies on an ornate brass bed in a pink dress surveying the empty space next to her. Lobby card. Elizabeth Taylor on that bed again looking sultry in a white dress. Lobby card. Elizabeth Taylor clings to a brass bed head in mild desperation. Lobby card. Elizabeth Taylor lies on a bed in a yellow dress and clings to Paul Newman in mild desperation.
November 29, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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A Streetcar Named Desire, 1951 Elia Kazan

"Wasn't it all okay till she showed here? And wasn't we happy together? Wasn't it all OK? Till she showed here. Hoity-toity, describin' me like an ape."

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Spanish film poster. Illustration of Marlon Brando, a staircase and a series of different facial expressions made by Vivien Leigh. Still image. Vivien Leigh clutches a dress coyly while Marlon Brando's physical presence looms. Still image. Tensions rise at Elysian Fields between irs inhabitants. Still image. Marlon Brando kneels at the bottom of a wrought iron staircase as Kim Hunter descends to comfort him.
November 28, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte, 1964 Robert Aldrich

"Often at night, she sits up dressed as if she were still young and expectin' a beau."

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Film poster. Lurid green noir type illustration of Bette Davis, Oliva de Havilland, Agnes Moorhead and Joseph cotton. Still image. Exterior of large Southern mansion with colonnades. Still image. Ariel image of grand curved staircase with Bette Davis and Agnes Moorhead at bottom. Still image. Bette Davis flaps out her arms next to a large stuffed bird.
November 27, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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The Haunting, 1963 Robert Wise

"It's was an evil house from the beginning, a house that was born bad."

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Film poster. Black and white painting of a creepy old house. Still image. Julie Harris looks intense standing under a gateway in a tweed jacket where the words 'Hill House' are carved into some masonry. Still image. The gang (Claire Bloom, Julie Harris, Richard Johnson and Russ Tamblyn) go up an ornate wooden staircase. Still image. The gang take time to appreciate a statue of St Francis in the conservatory.
November 27, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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Rebecca, 1940 Alfred Hitchcock

"Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again..."

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Criterion cover. Judith Anderson/Mrs Danvers opens some curtains. Still image. Manderley. Still image. Joan Fontaine walks past a very large window. Still image. Judith Fontaine looks up while a lot of flames occur behind her.
November 26, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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Saltburn, 2023 Emerald Fennell

"Lots of people get lost in Saltburn."

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Film poster. Barry Keoghan smokes a cigarette in the sky above a folly by a lake. Still image. Barry Keoghan stands against a metal railing in a maroon silk bathrobe above a cluttered lawn. Still image. Barry Keoghan looks around in a white library with a rose window at one end. Still image. Barry Keoghan and reflection at an opulent dining table.
November 26, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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Barton Fink, 1991 Joel & Ethan Coen

"You think you know pain? You think I made your life Hell? Look around this dump. You're just a tourist with a typewriter, I LIVE here...and you come into my home, and you complain that I'm making too much noise!"

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Criterion cover. John Turturro looks nervously into a corridor. Still image. A corner of some wallpaper peels away from a wall. Still image John Turturro listens against a hotel room wall. Still image. John Goodman stands in a hotel corridor next to the elevator where flames are appearing.
November 24, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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Mother!, 2017 Darren Aronofsky

"I want to make a paradise."

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Promo image. Jennifer Lawrence wearing a white dress and minimal make-up holds her heart in her hands surrounded by floral wallpaper. Still image. Jennifer Lawrence in t-shirt and cargo pants stands on the porch of a large white house. Still image. Jennifer Lawrence touches a plastered wall with her eyes closed. Still image. An illuminated light bulb with blood on it in front of a red brick wall.
November 24, 2025 at 6:54 PM