elaina

elaina

trying very hard to have time for film

Favorite films

  • Before Sunrise
  • Almost Famous
  • Cabaret
  • Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)

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  • Licorice Pizza

  • Fresh

    ★★★★

  • Station Eleven

    ★★★★★

  • tick, tick...BOOM!

    ★★★★

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  • Licorice Pizza

    Licorice Pizza

    the way I know Licorice Pizza romanticizes a brazenly large age gap between an adult and a minor instead of portraying it with some solemn moral ambiguity is because if I had seen this film when I was still a teenager, it wouldn’t have made me question the relationships I was in - it would’ve made me feel better about them. 

    I was Gary. I was that charming funny thrilling too smart for her age child actor, and I knew…

  • Fresh

    Fresh

    ★★★★

    So this was not the correct choice in film to watch after getting home from a date with a really charming doctor lmao

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  • Words on Bathroom Walls

    Words on Bathroom Walls

    ★★★½

    this was a beautiful and sympathetic narrative of an illness that is too often demonized in popular media but the way NONE of you told me Rodrick from Diary of a Wimpy Kid is in this, shirtless and horny? war crimes

  • Stargirl

    Stargirl

    ★½

    Leo: I-

    Stargirl: 𝐼𝓃 𝒸𝒶𝓈𝑒 𝓎𝑜𝓊 𝒽𝒶𝓋𝑒𝓃’𝓉 𝓃𝑜𝓉𝒾𝒸𝑒𝒹, 𝐼'𝓂 𝓌𝑒𝒾𝓇𝒹. 𝐼’𝓂 𝒶 𝓌𝑒𝒾𝓇𝒹𝑜. 𝐼 𝒹𝑜𝓃'𝓉 𝒻𝒾𝓉 𝒾𝓃. 𝒜𝓃𝒹 𝐼 𝒹𝑜𝓃'𝓉 𝓌𝒶𝓃𝓉 𝓉𝑜 𝒻𝒾𝓉 𝒾𝓃. 𝐻𝒶𝓋𝑒 𝓎𝑜𝓊 𝑒𝓋𝑒𝓇 𝓈𝑒𝑒𝓃 𝓂𝑒 𝓌𝒾𝓉𝒽𝑜𝓊𝓉 𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓈 𝓈𝓉𝓊𝓅𝒾𝒹 𝓊𝓀𝓊𝓁𝑒𝓁𝑒? 𝒯𝒽𝒶𝓉'𝓈 𝓌𝑒𝒾𝓇𝒹.