Marty Supreme was bombastic and entertaining, with an excellent performance by Chalamet, but fuck am I tired of films that can't conceive of women in narrative roles beyond "male protagonist's sexual conquest OR mother". Boring. Tired. Do better.
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December 30, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Marty Supreme was bombastic and entertaining, with an excellent performance by Chalamet, but fuck am I tired of films that can't conceive of women in narrative roles beyond "male protagonist's sexual conquest OR mother". Boring. Tired. Do better.
Heated Rivalry is the show I've been waiting for: an angsty but not tragic gay enemies-to-lovers romance, unapologetically sexual AND with an extended club scene set to t.A.T.u.'s problematic and iconic "All the Things She Said," a song that passed for queer rep if you were growing up in the aughts.
December 30, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Heated Rivalry is the show I've been waiting for: an angsty but not tragic gay enemies-to-lovers romance, unapologetically sexual AND with an extended club scene set to t.A.T.u.'s problematic and iconic "All the Things She Said," a song that passed for queer rep if you were growing up in the aughts.
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modesty laws prevented showing even one lousy frame of John Waters' PINK FLAMINGOS (1972) in the trailer, so the only footage in it is of people reacting to a screening they just came out of. every single type of extant queer person is contained in the specific sequences I have selected here
December 28, 2025 at 10:08 PM
modesty laws prevented showing even one lousy frame of John Waters' PINK FLAMINGOS (1972) in the trailer, so the only footage in it is of people reacting to a screening they just came out of. every single type of extant queer person is contained in the specific sequences I have selected here
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Even the counterfeit designer clothing that Lucky hawks in "Prince of Broadway" metaphorically represents this: the contrived image of wealth and abundance that these characters are trying to WILL into reality.
July 28, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Even the counterfeit designer clothing that Lucky hawks in "Prince of Broadway" metaphorically represents this: the contrived image of wealth and abundance that these characters are trying to WILL into reality.
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Alexandra's vocal performance in the bar in "Tangerine". Mikey's belief in his imminent big comeback in "Red Rocket". Jane buying two tickets to Paris in "Starlet".
July 28, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Alexandra's vocal performance in the bar in "Tangerine". Mikey's belief in his imminent big comeback in "Red Rocket". Jane buying two tickets to Paris in "Starlet".
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For many characters in Baker's films, the fantasy is an image in which they transcend the struggle of their lives, wherein poverty and social stigma have forced them to build visions of themselves beyond the demeaning and disrespectful gaze of society writ large.
July 28, 2025 at 4:22 PM
For many characters in Baker's films, the fantasy is an image in which they transcend the struggle of their lives, wherein poverty and social stigma have forced them to build visions of themselves beyond the demeaning and disrespectful gaze of society writ large.
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I've been thinking a lot about the final scene in Sean Baker's Anora, in the context of Baker's other films 🧵
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July 28, 2025 at 4:13 PM
I've been thinking a lot about the final scene in Sean Baker's Anora, in the context of Baker's other films 🧵
You just love to see it (real art made by real artists)
Our gorgeous #WakeUpDeadMan end credit portraits, painted from life by Isabella Watling. We’re still in theaters, see my pinned post for a theater finder!
December 8, 2025 at 2:25 PM
You just love to see it (real art made by real artists)
In any event, Pluribus is a fascinating and sharply written piece of TV. However, I've seen so many disingenuous posts suggesting that Carol's characterization is some kind of trick being played on the audience.
December 8, 2025 at 1:29 PM
In any event, Pluribus is a fascinating and sharply written piece of TV. However, I've seen so many disingenuous posts suggesting that Carol's characterization is some kind of trick being played on the audience.
Really enjoying Pluribus. After episode 6, the most pressing question is (spoilers)
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.....how many of the 12 have elected to be subsumed? I'm betting not Laxmi, but certainly Sisa?
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.....how many of the 12 have elected to be subsumed? I'm betting not Laxmi, but certainly Sisa?
December 8, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Really enjoying Pluribus. After episode 6, the most pressing question is (spoilers)
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.....how many of the 12 have elected to be subsumed? I'm betting not Laxmi, but certainly Sisa?
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.....how many of the 12 have elected to be subsumed? I'm betting not Laxmi, but certainly Sisa?
"Let them e̶a̶t̶ c̶a̶k̶e̶ starve."
November 4, 2025 at 7:09 PM
"Let them e̶a̶t̶ c̶a̶k̶e̶ starve."
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INLAND EMPIRE, David Lynch (2006)
November 4, 2025 at 6:46 PM
INLAND EMPIRE, David Lynch (2006)
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As Black Swan celebrates its fifteenth anniversary with an IMAX re-release, Mia Lee Vicino dances through the Letterboxd community’s obsession with the Oscar-winning psychological horror—from monstrous feminine urges to the iconic lipsticked mirror. boxd.it/2GQ
August 22, 2025 at 3:23 PM
As Black Swan celebrates its fifteenth anniversary with an IMAX re-release, Mia Lee Vicino dances through the Letterboxd community’s obsession with the Oscar-winning psychological horror—from monstrous feminine urges to the iconic lipsticked mirror. boxd.it/2GQ
Black Swan isn't just a doppelganger story about duality or a loss-of-innocence bildungsroman. It's about the impossibility of "good" womanhood, the dialectical imperative to be everything at once even - especially - the things that contradict.
August 24, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Black Swan isn't just a doppelganger story about duality or a loss-of-innocence bildungsroman. It's about the impossibility of "good" womanhood, the dialectical imperative to be everything at once even - especially - the things that contradict.
I am large I contain multitudes
being a cinephile means giving 5 stars to Solaris and also Alvin and the Chipmunks 💫
August 24, 2025 at 5:18 PM
I am large I contain multitudes
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That both POSSESSION and THE DEVILS will be on Criterion next month feels like some sort of cosmic alignment. If you haven’t seen either, get on it before they return to the streaming netherworld.
Announcing our September 2025 Criterion Channel lineup! ✨ This month's programming celebrates the centenary of the great American filmmaker Robert Altman, the career of Oscar-winning actor Jodie Foster, and much more.
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August 19, 2025 at 6:45 PM
That both POSSESSION and THE DEVILS will be on Criterion next month feels like some sort of cosmic alignment. If you haven’t seen either, get on it before they return to the streaming netherworld.
I loved the format of this trailer. Oddly, we saw it right before 'Weapons' which uses the same conceit as a narrative structure. While this trailer builds tension, mystery and a sense of POV with the character split, in 'Weapons' it's mostly just a device to slowly parcel out information.
Watch the teaser trailer for Osgood Perkins’ Keeper, starring Tatiana Maslany and Rossif Sutherland 🎥
In theaters November 14 via NEON.
In theaters November 14 via NEON.
August 19, 2025 at 3:54 PM
I loved the format of this trailer. Oddly, we saw it right before 'Weapons' which uses the same conceit as a narrative structure. While this trailer builds tension, mystery and a sense of POV with the character split, in 'Weapons' it's mostly just a device to slowly parcel out information.
Speak No Evil (2022)
August 19, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Speak No Evil (2022)
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Please give what you can to help Sama'a and her family survive the ongoing genocide in Gaza. They need every advantage we can give them
July 28, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Please give what you can to help Sama'a and her family survive the ongoing genocide in Gaza. They need every advantage we can give them
I've been thinking a lot about the final scene in Sean Baker's Anora, in the context of Baker's other films 🧵
a woman wearing headphones sits in front of a window
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July 28, 2025 at 4:13 PM
I've been thinking a lot about the final scene in Sean Baker's Anora, in the context of Baker's other films 🧵
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Una mujer fantástica (2017, Sebastián Lelio / Chile)
January 4, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Una mujer fantástica (2017, Sebastián Lelio / Chile)
The end of Eddington just doesn't sit right with me. Disability as karmic horror is tired.
July 25, 2025 at 7:53 PM
The end of Eddington just doesn't sit right with me. Disability as karmic horror is tired.