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Continues to be fucking insane. Burt Lancaster domineers over his sister in a borderline (or perhaps just subtextually) incestuous manner all while displacing his frustration with her independence on to his pet dog, Tony Curtis. Complete with a swanky jazz score and exquisite black-and-white cinematography.

Waves crashing, blink-and-you-miss-it, stop-motion, downward spiral, stilted distortion, curve of spine, etc etc

Brilliant use of blank screen, openings through which the thread of meaning is stitched. Oscillates between valences that highlight gendered stances and movements, ways of existing in (public) space.

Yesterday I had a final exam tomorrow I have to attend a wedding but TODAY is my 22nd birthday so I am treating myself to an avant-garde short film from 1946. As you do. Also I think Maya Deren may have been the best filmmaker at capturing the human body in motion, her sense of timing and angles is impeccable

Nothing says more about me than the fact I was watching this at 7:00 in the morning for no particular reason at all

This movie is so dumb god bless <3

Developing this theory of Inland Empire as being like a piece of paper thats been folded up many times, had a hole poked through it, and then unfolded, revealing the holes as being scattered, though not indiscriminately, across the page.

Absence as presence, the impermanence of every moment, the faults of memory, the limitations of film, time marching on.....

Best gimmick movie of all time methinks

You know how people say certain actors can't be cast in period pieces because they look too modern? Well, aesthetically, I think this movie has 2000s face. Anyways. Somehow I managed to be simultaneously riveted and begging for this to finally be over; was feeling stressed at the right parts but also it just doesn't know where or how to end.

They really put something in this when Judas starts singing I don't know how to love him after dropping to his knees, sun glinting in his eyes, overcome with guilt at surrendering Jesus because I lose my mind every time

Must a movie have perfect politics r.e. what constitues "gayness" or "straightness" (or being a man or a woman for that matter) or how you should treat horrible republican senators, is it not enough that Robin Williams has a great mustache and Elaine May wrote the script and Gene Hackman is there? Shoutout to the raccoons currently living in the attic that were chittering a background soundtrack throughout the whole movie.

"Stagnancy could kill you, but so will your best friend or / At least he used to be. Your only friend, / Your killer, I think thats what they call a soulmate or / Something like that"

Not going regale you with the whole thing but the second time I watched this I spent basically the entire runtime composing a poem based on it which is probably exactly the film viewing activity one would expect of me. I probably tend to pay attention to Peter Falk more in this considering my childhood obsession with Columbo, but god is Cassavetes good in this. A harried, frenetic performance. A man made manic through the specter of death. This movie kind of rules

Historical event as blindingly uninterpretable movements lost in the fissures of time, only to be played and replayed in deteriorating reconstructions, copies of copies, source decay.

Like an increasingly paranoid delusion that just never stops. Nothing encapsulates the sheer ridiculousness of this more than Garrison's wife and kids patiently awaiting his arrival at Easter dinner meanwhile he is too busy homophobically accusing someone of being apart of a vast network of conspirators to assassinate Kennedy

The fact I just had to live-tweet watching this for a class is kind of diabolical. Harrowing

Life-changing media for gay freshmen in high school into musical theater. Like I literally leaving a Friday night football game early so I could catch this airing on PBS. Anyways. Marvin's square-end tie haunts me to this day

I love Orson Welles and I love Shakespeare so of course I enjoyed this at least a little bit. And I mean, who could complain about breathtaking inky-black shadows, Welles' wild-eyed stare at uncomfortably close angles, fog rolling over nightmarishly shallow landscapes? Obviously still limited by the circumstances of its production, but still kind of great. Will forever be thinking about Welles reciting tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow over shots of black-and-white clouds slowly morphing......

Oh you KNOW I was waiting for that titular needle drop

You can tell I'm getting my shit together and regaining my joie de vivre in that I am watching a random ass movie in the middle of the day on a Monday. As you do

Watched on Sunday April 6, 2025.

Watched on Saturday April 5, 2025.

"Alexis didn't you watch this fairly recently?" Such is the nature of cinema studies. I even got an email for anothed screening of this while I was actively watching it

Kind of beautifully mesmerizing? Loved this

Watched on Tuesday April 1, 2025.

Rewatched under near* perfect viewing conditions AKA forcing my friend to watch it with no context nor even vague knowledge of Vertigo. About halfway through she goes: "is this a perv film?"
*could've been better if there weren't the technical trials and tribulations I went through. Also I'm exahusted from waking up really early to take care of my sister with a stomach bug. Also also as I was setting up the movie I had to get maintenance because water was coming through my ceiling. But other than that

(Guy who is always thinking about Michelangelo Antonioni's The enger): picking up some The enger vibes from this. Also ot goes without saying but holy shit did this look good (the shots through the windsheild of lights going over Anna Karina's face...... woag)

Every time I watch a Godard movie I'm like wow I really have to get more into this guy and then I keep not doing that. ANYWAYS. This really feels like my kind of film

This was LIFE CHANGING for me and my sister as a kid like what do you MEAN Tinker Bell has a twin, I'M a twin. Also all those people who like forbidden fairy romance or whatever the kids are into on tiktok these days need to understand they will NEVER be better than this movie.

🎶SPRING AND SUMMER LOVE AND LAUGHTER WE'LL LIVE HAPPILY EVER AFTER!!!!!!🎶

Of course a guy who couldn't get it up would show a girl a gun in the most phallic of manners. ANYWAYS. I expected this to be better considering its reputation, but still pretty good (I am obligated to say: especially the editing which I am paying attention to for a presentation).

Chose to watch this with my family, once it ended my mom was like "thats it? Thats the ending? and my dad who was only briefly awake in the middle declared this "lame" meanwhile I was too busy being blinded by the powers of bisexuality every time Bogart & Bacall were on screen

Really fucking good like the aesthetics of the mundane vs the concept of holding a history-defining international trial, the long yet engrossing monologues, the fantastic film-within-a-film sequence, come on

Agnes Varda could make anything beautiful and interesting like this is basically a tourism ment and I was SEATED

The funniest part of this movie (it is not a funny movie) is that his girlfriend knows nothing about him yet down at the wire tapper convention everybody's loke HEY HARRY CAUL. The other funniest thing about this (again, not funny) movie is that I couldn't stop thinking about Peter Falk's pronunciation of "Francis Ford Coppola" on one of my favorite episodes of Columbo. Anyways great movie to be watching the night I have an audio project due

Sorry I'm not saying anything smart right now but when I was googling around this film I learned that the lead actress in this teaches an acting workshop in the theater department at the school where my friend studies acting/theater??????????? Anyways yeah this was still good

Not going to say much I didn'talready say when I watched this two months ago, the way Welles shoots light and shadow and the interior of that absolutely outrageous mansion is just breathtaking, Agnes Moorhead fucking kills it in her penultimate scene, etc etc. Also, someone needs to go back in time and save the Georgie Minafer gets his comeuppance FOR REAL cut.

"Why?" "It just did"

Liked this a lot more than I liking it the first time. Godard's slow, methodical, sweeping tracking shots or long, drawn-out, monologues contrast with horrific, violent imagery and subject matter in an almost beautiful way. Forgot how good the music was in this

We love someone who learns and grows!!!!! A self improvement queen!!!!

Fantastic movie loved watching this again amongst other people this time and not to harp on about the hot lawyer but the maybe the best part of rewatching this is that when Sandra says she doesn't know what animal to picture Vincent as my sister and I simultaneously leaned over to each other and whispered "mouse"

A little rough around the edges (to be expected considering the various circumstances of its production) but this encapsulates difference, contradiction, change, etc via the immacutely edited blend of loosely-plotted fiction and documentary digressions

Man I do not give a fuck about the plot being confusing is it not enough to watch Humphrey Bogart go through trials and tribulations? And Lauren Bacall is there? And they're both hot? Shoutout to when he gets knocked out, handcuffed, and tied up but as soon as he wakes up he gets her to light a cigarette and periodically put it in his mouth, that was kind of hilariously great

I LOVED disney fairies as a kid but hadn't seen this in approximately 8 million years and the ending almost made me cry for no reason!!!!! Also the top review for this calls Tinkerbell a woman in stem but I deeply understand her troubles as a humanities major just swap out her talent of tinkering with, say, loterature and film analysis, and "going to the mainland" with "getting a job that pays" and an accurate metaphor emerges.

One of the prettiest films I've seen probably ever and also it makes me want to lie face down on the ground (this is a compliment). Only thing that doesn't hit as hard as I want it to is the very end thought that might be due to my inclinations to ambiguity and/or tragedy. Personally I think Jane Wyman should be allowed to kill everybody who is mean to her in this movie including her lame ass crybaby adult kids. Was vaguely familiar with Rock Hudson via my moms love of Doris Day rom-coms and also her recent penchant for watching McMillan & Wife but its nice to properly see him in something especially because now I too am in love with him (I jest)

This movie is insane. Thank you Lily for sitting through Das Ding with me I forgive you for falling asleep the first time 🫡

Al Pacino wears some seriously heinous 70s fashion in this but somehow makes it work? Lots of reviews here trying to figure out when he looks hottest but its very obviously the first scene when he's wounded from being shot in the face though I will say I appreciated hoop earring + facial hair + little ponytail + deep v neck

There are many shots through doorways in this which sometimes give the impression of looking in on something too intimate, but I think more importantly, literalizes liminality, being between two places. Or, of course, invokes the feeling of being trapped

The best part of this movie was learning that the gravitron carnival ride existed in 1959

I love when a movie is from 1975 and has an unconventionally attractive lead and makes you feel bleakly horrible at the futility of things

Edit: also YES I did recognize Susan Clark from being on an episode of Columbo my 70s-character-actor-on-Columbo knowledge remains unmatched

One thing I love about this movie (there are many) especially as an entry into the Star Trek franchise is how many really good newly introduced side characters there are like. Saavik? David? Carol Marcus? All slaying. Yippee!!!

Every film under one hour I've given 4.5-5 stars (excluding Christmas cartoons lol), arranged chronologically

• Ballet Mécanique
• The Life and Death of 9413, A Hollywood Extra
• Un Chien Andalou
• Meshes of the Afternoon
• A Study in Choreography for Camera
• Ritual in Transfigured Time
• Puce Moment
• The Wonder Ring
• Cowboy and "Indian" Film
• Scorpio Rising

...plus 14 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Every movie I own on dvd/bluray. Really random selection as its a mix of random stuff I've found cheap at library sales and things I've more consciously bought. Excludes tv shows/miniseries, the vast array of kids movies from my childhood that I don't really watch anymore, dvds I technically have access to but consider my parents', and many Christmas movies that again are more my family's as a whole

• Aguirre, the Wrath of God
• Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
• All That Jazz
• Amadeus
• American Gigolo
• L'Avventura
• Barry Lyndon
• The Beaches of Agnès
• The Big Sleep
• Body Double

...plus 102 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Favorite movies, comfort movies, movies that simply have a "me" vibe, you get the gist. Some are good, some are bad, some I like more than others. What does and doesn't make the list is basically arbitrary and I'm trying not to stress about it. Arranged chronologically. Enjoy.

• Battleship Potemkin
• Design for Living
• The Thin Man
• Holiday
• The Philadelphia Story
• Citizen Kane
• Shadow of a Doubt
• The Big Sleep
• Rope
• Singin' in the Rain

...plus 65 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Non-extensive because truly the list would be endless and impossible to

• Knives Out

  x2

• The enger

  Technically he fell alseep when the dvd menu was up but before the movie had started however I'm counting it

• Dial M for Murder
• Singin' in the Rain
• The Maltese Falcon
• The Wizard of Oz

  Before the color portion even started

• The Princess Bride
• The Shining
• Mikey and Nicky

  Woke up near the end just to say that Cassavetes is a better director than actor

• The Birdcage

Expect this to get filled out soon because I've tasked myself with his filmography this year.....

1. Citizen Kane
2. F for Fake
3. The Magnificent Ambersons
4. Macbeth
5. The Lady from Shanghai

TLDR: top 15 feature-length movies directed by women, loosely ranked
Longer rant: I get really upset seeing gender essentialist lists that imply that women only like one kind of movie or that a movie can even be a "girl" movie, especially when these lists include little to no films actually directed by women. Women can and do make, watch, and enjoy a vast array of films, including those that are complicated, serious, and challenging, though this is not to say that genres typically associated with women (melodrama, rom-com, etc) are to be demeaned or taken less seriously. To combat the ever-rising tide of the aforementioned kind of list, here are some of my favorite feature-length movies directed by women. May be updated in the future either to expand or replace films on the list. Arranged by my ratings which are subject to change

• Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
• Mikey and Nicky
• A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night
• Vagabond
• Je Tu Il Elle
• Something Different
• The Gleaners and I
• News from Home
• La Pointe Courte
• Anatomy of a Fall

...plus 5 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Pierrot le Fou
• Vivre Sa Vie
• Weekend
• Band of Outsiders
• King Lear
• Breathless

1. Princess Mononoke
2. The Boy and the Heron
3. Kiki's Delivery Service
4. Howl's Moving Castle
5. Spirited Away

(Feature-length only)

1. Vagabond
2. The Gleaners and I
3. La Pointe Courte
4. Le Bonheur
5. Cléo from 5 to 7

Do you all still like me even though I hate Dressed to Kill

1. Phantom of the Paradise
2. Blow Out
3. Carrie
4. Body Double
5. Sisters
6. Dressed to Kill

Arranged in order of when I watched them

• Je Tu Il Elle
• Sweet Smell of Success
• Design for Living
• Possession
• Holiday
• Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
• Vagabond
• I Saw the TV Glow
• All That Jazz
• The Gleaners and I

...plus 5 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

I'm a certified expert (got a good grade in my Hitchcock class)

1. Rear Window
2. Shadow of a Doubt
3. Rope
4. Notorious
5. Strangers on a Train
6. Vertigo
7. North by Northwest
8. Rebecca
9. The Birds
10. Psycho

...plus 4 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

If I had a nickel

• Strange Days
• Doctor Who

In order of when I watched them

• Mikey and Nicky
• Singin' in the Rain
• The Silence of the Lambs
• Dog Day Afternoon
• A Woman Under the Influence
• The Wolf House
• The enger
• Rear Window
• Skinamarink
• It's a Wonderful Life

If I could put Deep Space Nine's The Emissary here I would

• Je T'Aime, Je T'Aime
• Solaris

No I will not be explaining

• The enger
• Gattaca

David Lynch feature-length films ranked, though I like all of them

1. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
2. Inland Empire
3. Eraserhead
4. Blue Velvet
5. Mulholland Drive
6. The Elephant Man
7. The Straight Story
8. Lost Highway
9. Wild at Heart
10. Dune

Ordered loosely from favorite to least favorite

• Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
• Casino Royale
• Inland Empire
• Eraserhead
• Blue Velvet
• Skyfall
• A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night
• The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
• Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon
• Saw

*Guys being dudes homoerotic tragedy cinematic universe

• Mikey and Nicky
• Midnight Cowboy
• Withnail & I

What it says in the tin: my favorite movies that I first watched as a child.

• The Aristocats
• Cinderella
• The Sound of Music
• Mary Poppins
• Barbie and the Diamond Castle
• Barbie Presents: Thumbelina
• Secret of the Wings
• The Princess Bride
• Cinderella
• Now You See Me

...plus 1 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Objectively Skyfall is better but Casino Royale is my best friend so

1. Casino Royale
2. Skyfall
3. Quantum of Solace
4. No Time to Die
5. Spectre

These are not movies that portray or imply bisexuality these are just my bisexual opinions

• Jurassic Park
• Gattaca
• Pacific Rim
• Blue Velvet
• Casino Royale

• Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
• The Prestige

1. Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
2. Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
3. Star Trek: First
4. Star Trek V: The Final Frontier
5. Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
6. Star Trek Beyond
7. Star Trek: Insurrection
8. Star Trek III: The Search for Spock
9. Star Trek
10. Star Trek: The Motion Picture

...plus 3 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
2. Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
3. Star Trek V: The Final Frontier
4. Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
5. Star Trek III: The Search for Spock
6. Star Trek: The Motion Picture

1. Star Trek Beyond
2. Star Trek
3. Star Trek Into Darkness

1. Star Trek: First
2. Star Trek: Insurrection
3. Star Trek: Nemesis
4. Star Trek: Generations