Sure, I spent the '80s watching action movies that were mostly military revenge fantasies about the Middle East. But then I went to college and spent the '90s watching movies mostly about Tehran schoolgirls trying to accomplish various simple tasks. The Iranian New Wave would fix a lot of people.
Phantom Thread
The Master
Inherent Vice
Licorice Pizza
Punch Drunk Love
Screenshot from 1960s Japanese movie Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster. A serious-looking man in a suit is explaining his latest idea. Subtitle reads 'It may sound primitive and unscientific, but through the fairies, we could ask Mothra to help.'
The latest White House thinking on the Strait of Hormuz.
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the vice president is a klansman
I wrote my own Charlie Kirk obituary, and about valuing truth over manners: www.thenation.com/article/poli...
Bertrand Bonello
70: The eyes do not want to close at all times or perhaps one day Rome will allow itself to choose in turn
71: Two Lane Blacktop
72: The Heartbreak Kid
73: The Mother and the Whore
74: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
75: Welfare
76: Ici et Ailleurs
77: Suspiria
78: The Killer of Sheep
79: Apocalypse Now
Netanyahu has spent the better part of two decades trying to strong arm the United States into an unprovoked war against Iran and finally found a president stupid enough to do it for him. Unbelievable.
“What if we added a woman with a facelift to holocaust footage” is truly the Trump aesthetic.
no one is forcing them to gamble on crypto or sports betting. no one is forcing them to treat hard work and diligence like it's "for girls." no one is forcing them to retreat from any kind of connection with other people. take. responsibility. for. your. life.
my most conservative-coded trait these days is that i honestly think that the worst possible thing that can happen for young men is for the entire society to coddle them. what they need to hear is that they have one life to live and they have to take responsibility for it.
every person involved in this needs to be in prison
I am not the first to say it but I do sort of see where JD Vance's mom was coming from when she traded him for drugs
Robocop stays undefeated as the best movie about American capitalism
Drenching everything in truffle oil
This may sound primitive and unscientific, but through the fairies, we COULD ask Mothra for help
feels easier to earnest post on here but living through watching twin peaks the return live week to week was one of the most special moments of my life and i’m still incredibly sad david lynch is gone.
Drop your letterboxd account!!
Yet to be mentioned: "Curse of the Cat People" is excellent
Feel obligated to plug a recent favorite discovery, Maroun Bagdadi's "Whispers," which I believe i sought out after Richard Brody wrote a piece on it highlighting some of the obscurities burried on Netflix.