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@fifsbo gay as in homosexually charged or as in “me at the [——] store”

i switched to the adult version of my allergy medication, the number of gay thoughts increased from 2 a month to more than 3 daily

@BugmanMD Yeah this one is pretty much as perfect as they get.

now revisiting ESTHER KAHN

@poshspicelatte Genuinely hate him and morality doesn’t even have to factor in it. I Feel So Free.

@BugmanMD I don’t think I’ve gone through any attempt with this one without being annoyed for the vast majority of the runtime. I just don’t think it’s good, but then again INLAND EMPIRE and TP:TR are the only ones I find so remarkable.

whew I have such a hard time w/ everything after Laura Harring opens the blue box in MULHOLLAND DRIVE (the final dinner scene being particularly difficult.) And it all leads to a typical final banging together of some of the film's elements before that goofy old couple finale.

@poshspicelatte She’s annoying and her schtick is definitely a performance but she truly is gorgeous and her sabrina carpenter impression is so so funny

@staminanX__ *red text*: this is stunning and you’re so talented, cool and pretty

no makeup and shitty lighting but i can’t believe it’s finally real, i want to cry :’)

@fifsbo Just realized a dyslexic guy wouldn’t spell “don’t mind if i do” correctly. Whatever

@fifsbo *dyslexic guy voice* “deck the halls”? Don’t mind if i do 😏

christmas gift idea: a thing or two

@BugmanMD Chinese Bookie is one of the better ones tbh; the worst offenders are the gena rowlands ones with the comically large actorly nonsense. Method acting is unforgivable in my book.

@lnfiniteCapsize I’m giving his work another shot, but I gotta agree with DS.

Which version of The Killing of a Chinese Bookie is better?

@fifsbo Happy birthday!

my birthday is in exactly one year from today

@BugmanMD This might be the one for me…

And Life Goes On ✅ the last time I saw this was twenty years ago on a bootleg DVD from my college library...

Kiarostami revisits otw 😏

@BugmanMD It isn’t good

still need to see MALMKROG

@BugmanMD Happy Birthday Lee!!! Hope you have a great one

@BugmanMD Just checked my LB and apparently I had the same reaction to RIDE THE HIGH COUNTRY as I did MD but I had somehow forgotten the former existed. I only saw the first of THE WESTERNER eps and remember really liking it but wasn't in the right headspace. I should give it another go.

@lnfiniteCapsize RIDE THE HIGH COUNTRY remains my favorite of the features--it's a little more stately, there's something there that grounds SP's tendencies. I gotta say though, his episodes of THE WESTERNER are really, really special...

Is Robin Wood correct about The Ballad of Cable Hogue being major Sam? 🤔

August: 1. EQUINOX (Rudolph) 2. FIVE SHAOLIN MASTERS (Cheh) 3. APACHE DRUMS (Fregonese) 4. GROWN-UPS (Leigh) 5. DESPERATELY SEEKING SUSAN (Seidelman) 6. ONE WAY PASSAGE (Garnett) 7. THREE AGES (Keaton, Cline)

July Favorites: 1. POLICE OFFICER (Uchida) 2. HARD LABOUR (Leigh) 3. COME AND GET IT (Hawks, Wyler) 4. THE PALEFACE (Keaton, Cline) 5. CARNAL KNOWLEDGE (Nichols) 6. LES RENDEZ-VOUS D’ANNA (Akerman)

HARD LABOUR: So fascinated by Leigh’s framing here. The textural grittiness always at odds with the exaggerated/stylized performances. I can’t help but wonder whether he’s shooting *against* the performance style. Either way, the effect is pretty potent.

June Favorites: 1. TANGE SAZEN AND THE POT WORTH A MILLION RYO (Yamanaka). 2. THE LOVE NEST (Keaton, Cline). 3. THE SCARECROW (Keaton, Cline). 4. AUTOEROTIC (Swanberg). 5. JUDEX (Feuillade). 6. ASTEROID CITY (Anderson). 7. THE GOAT (Keaton, St. Clair).