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Kat The Film Lady

@katwatchesfilms.bsky.social

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The greatest person you'll never meet Film, Music and Pop Culture. Not a critic, just an enthusiast. Also autistic. Terfs NOT welcome. Same handle on most socials. My profile on Letterboxd https://boxd.it/3OSu3

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Kat The Film Lady @katwatchesfilms.bsky.social · 2m

Don't recommend enrolling in French veterinary school.

Kat The Film Lady @katwatchesfilms.bsky.social · 1h

Tonight's film

Kat The Film Lady @katwatchesfilms.bsky.social · 4m

Almost spewed several times

Kat The Film Lady @katwatchesfilms.bsky.social · 1h

Tonight's film

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Kat The Film Lady @katwatchesfilms.bsky.social · 1h

😌 you are extremely influential

Kat The Film Lady @katwatchesfilms.bsky.social · 1h

Another interesting fact about this film is that Tarsem Singh's favourite TV show was Twin Peaks so there are several artistic hat tips to the show throughout the film
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Kat The Film Lady @katwatchesfilms.bsky.social · 1h

Tarsem Singh was also influenced by music videos directed by Mark Romanek including Closer, The Perfect Drug, and Bedtime Story
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Stills from The Perfect Drug music video

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Kat The Film Lady @katwatchesfilms.bsky.social · 1h

In one scene, Peter Novak finds himself next to three women with mouths open to the sky. This is based on an Odd Nerdrum painting called Dawn.
Nerdrum's work is pretty fkn wild tbh.
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Scene from The Cell and Odd Nerdrum painting side by side

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Kat The Film Lady @katwatchesfilms.bsky.social · 1h

The scene in which Carl is cleaning one of his victims strongly resembles the music video for Losing My Religion (also directed by Tarsem Singh)
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Carl is cleaning one of his victims and music video for Losing My Religion side by side

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Kat The Film Lady @katwatchesfilms.bsky.social · 1h

The scene where a horse is segmented into pieces was inspired by a Damien Hirst art installation called 'Some Comfort Gained from the Acceptance of The Inherent Lies in Everything'
It's pretty fkd up
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Segmented horse scene from the Cell and the Damien Hirst art installation side by side

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Kat The Film Lady @katwatchesfilms.bsky.social · 1h

Catherine chases Carl through a tunnel/hall made of stone - this scene is based on a H.R Giger painting called 'Schacht'
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Kat The Film Lady @katwatchesfilms.bsky.social · 1h

The red suits used in the lab were originally from a film Eiko Ishioka had previously worked on Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)
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Two characters in The Cell wearing red full body suits, suspended in the air

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Kat The Film Lady @katwatchesfilms.bsky.social · 1h

One of the first things I noticed was the film Catherine Deane falls asleep watching is René Laloux's Fantastic Planet.
The choice of scene from Fantastic Planet foreshadows Catherine's later enslavement
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Still from Fantastic Planet. A human baby wearing a collar

Fantastic Planet
Fantastic Planet O
La Planète sauvage
DIRECTED BY René Laloux
1973.72 mins
TRAILER
A SUBLIME TRIP TO A FINE NEW WORLD
On the planet Ygam, the Draags, extremely echnologically and spiritually advanced blue humanoids, consider the tiny Oms, human beings descendants of Terra's inhabitants, as ignorant animals. Those who live in slavery are treated as simple pets and used to entertain Draag children; those who live hidden in the hostile wilderness of the planet are periodically hunted and ruthlessly slaughtered as if they were vermin.

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Kat The Film Lady @katwatchesfilms.bsky.social · 1h

I see we're talking about The Cell tonight 👀

Here's my fave bits about its artistic influences...

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Kat The Film Lady @katwatchesfilms.bsky.social · 2h

@chairmanmomo.bsky.social likes it too (I think)

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Kat The Film Lady @katwatchesfilms.bsky.social · 2h

I do. It's a great film 😌

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Kat The Film Lady @katwatchesfilms.bsky.social · 22h

A House of Dynamite. Looks very interesting.

I can't recommend anyone give their time or money to films with Leto in them.

Kat The Film Lady @katwatchesfilms.bsky.social · 23h

Tonight's film

Kat The Film Lady @katwatchesfilms.bsky.social · 1d

Doing pretty well for 8 days into the month

Spooktober watchlist 2025 boxd.it/OR4Wg

Screenshot of Kat's Spooktober watchlist linked in skeet

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Kat The Film Lady @katwatchesfilms.bsky.social · 1d

I have now!

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coldspiral.bsky.social @coldspiral.bsky.social · 1d

I adore this song!
Have you watched Andrew Bird & Matt Berninger playing it?
youtu.be/bznV1DqUG6o

Andrew Bird: Live From The Great Room - Perfect Day (ft. Matt Berninger)

YouTube video by Andrew Bird

youtu.be

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Kat The Film Lady @katwatchesfilms.bsky.social · 1d

Gentle morning bop

Lou Reed - Perfect Days
Screenshot from Spotify

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Kat The Film Lady @katwatchesfilms.bsky.social · 1d

Well done!
My eyes would simply fall out of my skull if I read this much

Kat The Film Lady @katwatchesfilms.bsky.social · 1d

You create an account for him and start logging every film he watches until he is old enough to log them himself
😌
Could do a review for each one. Like "got home from hospital and he was unsettled for ages so we watched <insert movie> together."

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Kat The Film Lady @katwatchesfilms.bsky.social · 2d

🤌

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Kat The Film Lady @katwatchesfilms.bsky.social · 2d

Was watching lectures for uni and Midsommar was mentioned. So now I'm thinking back to this discussion...

open.spotify.com/episode/4gdi...

Film in Forty - Midsommar

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