i like gothic romances, dark academia, and her (2013).
i don't like lost in translation (2003).
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Manchester by the Sea 2016
kenneth lonergan knows how to capture grief (and emotion) so well it's like he reached inside of my brain and processed my feelings for me and then put them in a movie. patrick's irrational yet totally rational breakdown over the freezer renders lonergan a master observer of humans, or at least me, because i know that feeling so well yet it's one that is so difficult to articulate. he is also able to make me feel so much about situations…
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The Pleasure of Being Robbed 2008
josh safdie,,,,,,,i know this is probably the last thing u want but please be the lead in a romantic comedy next
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After Hours 1985
i've been meaning to watch after hours for a very long time now since good time is one of my favourite movies, but i think that after hours lacks what makes good time so special to me.
the safdie brothers have said that they created a 3-month–by–3-month timeline of every single thing that happened in connie's life leading up to the moment he appears on screen in the film, and the work they put into creating connie's character was obvious…
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Uncut Gems 2019
i think the reason why i love the safdies so much is because they treat each subject they capture on film with such tenderness. an uncut gem is an incredibly romantic notion—it's flawed, but there's beauty below the rough surface and it takes work to see it. you have to trust that it is there without seeing all of it naked. that's the way the safdies write their characters—lenny, harley, connie, and now howard. they treat their very flawed characters as heroes if only for two hours forcing us to look, really look, through the loupe at the gem.
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Scott Pilgrim vs. the World 2010
me in 2010: why is it weird that he's dating a high schooler?
me in 2019: scott pilgrim belongs in JAIL
