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if you’re not reciting the “you are but you’re bisexual” part w adrien brody everytime you rewatch this film what ARE you doing

ok so i need to watch this another time but drunk

Watched on Monday April 28, 2025.

Watched on Monday April 28, 2025.

Watched on Friday April 25, 2025.

Watched on Friday April 25, 2025.

Watched on Friday April 25, 2025.

truly a film that deserves much more recognition on the international stage than it currently has. it’s technically a kunqu opera, which is one of the oldest forms of chinese dramas and there’s something hypnotic about the pacing and the lyricism. the story revolves around a girl, du liniang, who literally dreams of love and then falls into this slow descent into death and rebirth, all because of a connection she made in a dream. and yet it’s all wrapped in this delicate, painterly aesthetic of the soft silks, flowing sleeves, moonlight, garden pavilions... it’s basically a live-action poem. and so really the problem is, people outside of china rarely get exposed to the delicacy of this restrained form of expression that i would say is quite unique to asian cinema. i mean especially in its full, uncut 20-hour version (yes, it’s actually 20 hours but don’t worry, there are abridged ones like this film), idk how else to put it but this narrative is hust yearning in it it’s purest form. there’s so much global attention on western classics like hamlet or romeo and juliet, (rightfully so) but peony pavilion deserves to be part of that same conversation that bings up wong kar wai on a daily. the play doesn’t give you that instant gratification we’ve gotten used to in modern romance stories. it shows love as something fleeting and delicate, something that exists more in the spaces between action than in the action itself. and even with intimate scene, peony pavilion still captures that. it slows you down and forces you to sit with all those moments we usually rush past.i mean the films got it all, it’s got the tragedy, the beauty, the big existential questions. (just with more elegance and less yelling.) it's not just theater or cinema, it’s a depiction (often not shown) of what i would say the majority of this population on earth acts like when we’re in love. not all of us were cut out for dramatic love confessions under the pouring rain or ionate kisses in front of an entire crowd. love and longing in itself is a very tender and held back emotion. it’s hesitant. it exists in silences, in glances, in the brush of a sleeve or a half-finished line of poetry. du liniang doesn’t scream her love, she dreams it, aches for it, and then literally dies for it without ever fully experiencing it in the real world. and that restraint is makes it feel more powerful. because again love is not this all-consuming fire (that is more closer to limerence and ion) but a quiet longing that lives under your skin. it’s the kind of thing that lingers in your mind like a dream you almost forgot, but can’t stop thinking about.

so yeah. if you ever get the chance to watch the full play or make your friends watch this film, even just a scene or two, do it. it’s a great reminder of love in its truest form.

my history teacher is such a g for recommending this

Watched on Friday April 18, 2025.

Watched on Friday April 18, 2025.

Watched on Friday April 18, 2025.

Watched on Friday April 18, 2025.

pei pei i feel you girl

Watched on Friday April 18, 2025.

wtf

i have come to realize that a film w nicole kidman casted as one of the leads is like an episode of Jeopardy. there's only two possibilities: either the best thing you've even watched or a piece of shit

Watched on Thursday April 3, 2025.

lust to caution ratio literally being 10000:0

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forgot how much i loved this

these divas

my glorious king … can you come back… rewatching isn’t enough anymore … one more film … one more … nobody out there doing debussy soundtracks like you are …

i love you ralph finneas

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Toxic Romance Never Looked So Good: Phantom Thread as a Study of Control and Sexuality

Paul Thomas Anderson’s Phantom Thread isn’t your average “boy meets girl” story. It’s more like “boy meets girl, boy obsessively designs girl’s life like one of his dresses, girl poisons boy with mushrooms, and somehow, they both like it.” If that sounds insane, that’s because it is — in the best, most delicately embroidered way possible.

At first glance, everything about the film screams restraint. It’s buttoned up, perfectly hemmed. The opening scenes glide through the House of Woodcock like we’re entering a sanctum — or a trap. Anderson’s cinematography doesn’t just capture space; it measures it. The camera’s gentle tracking shots and soft natural light evoke a romantic old-world charm, but it’s a misdirection. He lulls us into thinking this is a cozy period piece about fashion when really, it’s a high-stakes power play dressed in mohair.

Let’s talk about that breakfast scene — Reynolds’ first encounter with Alma.

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girl me too reynolds me too cuz everybody fr need to stfu at breakfast … breakfast is alone time

the fact that there isn’t a single sex scene in this film boggles my mind

i just love how the cinematography and colors of this film is so fucking joe wright coded but the dialogue itself feels like something written by sam taylor johnson

paul thomas anderson you fucking genius

don’t pmo

the REAL question/personality diagnosis is who would you date … mickey 18 or 17 …

WHY DIDNT ANYONE TELL ME THAT THERED BE A MOODY FRUITY BRUNETTE W A LETHAL FACE CARD IN THIS

i walked into the theater expecting anything but mark ruffalo being such a good trump impersonator i love this

oh my days can’t believe i put off watching this for so long. fucking finally.

rewatched this cuz of the poster i saw at the kubrick café ystd

lawd.

i will ALWAYS give an episodic structured film w pretty ass colors, out of pocket plot lines and absurd acting a five star FUCK YEAH

the only bob dylan biopic that i’ll be watching

i miss the version of me that watched this movie when it came out

what kind of dog shit is this

rewatching this instead of revising for my chem final xx

this caused and cured my depression at the same time

this gave me back my will to live

i don’t care this shit was so fucking funny

IM NOT CRYING YOURE CRYING

ding ding ‘tis i again i’m back for the seventh time

😖

i’m not crying YOURE crying

Offing myself yippee

such a good fucjing soundtrack

just every film that i can enjoying at an EXCEPTIONAL level cuz i have a fish brain and im too lazy to make specific lists based off of genres and niche topics like i do w my playlists (maybe one day). i most likely have missed out a shit ton of other films - and if you don’t like them it’s ok to js it you have mid taste

• Queer
• Millennium Mambo
• The Grand Budapest Hotel
• Pulp Fiction
• The 400 Blows
• Conclave
• Phantom Thread
• Atonement
• Memories of Murder
• Lust, Caution

...plus 46 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Cha Cha Real Smooth
• Chef
• Fantastic Mr. Fox
• Little Miss Sunshine
• My Life as a Zucchini
• The Edge of Seventeen
• Dead Poets Society
• Still Alice
• Life of Pi
• Good Will Hunting

...plus 174 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• The History of Sound
• Renoir
• The Phoenician Scheme
• Nouvelle Vague
• Sentimental Value
• Alpha
• Eddington
• Highest 2 Lowest
• Sirât
• The Little Sister

...plus 2 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Leave One Day
• The Phoenician Scheme
• Eddington
• Alpha
• Young Mothers
• Renoir
• The History of Sound
• The Little Sister
• Sirât
• Nouvelle Vague

...plus 43 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Psycho
• 2001: A Space Odyssey
• Schindler's List
• GoodFellas
• 12 Angry Men
• Back to the Future
• Lawrence of Arabia
• The Virgin Suicides
• Come and See
• The Prince of Egypt

...plus 789 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

me when im actually happy aft watching a film and not contemplating death or crying over it

• Ocean's Eight
• The Birdcage
• Crazy Rich Asians
• Bottoms
• The Devil Wears Prada
• How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
• Mulan
• Grown Ups
• The Princess and the Frog
• A Charlie Brown Christmas

...plus 9 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

i’m about to kms (positive)

• Perfect Blue
• Eyes Wide Shut
• I Saw the TV Glow
• A Clockwork Orange
• The Zone of Interest
• The Shining
• Mulholland Drive
• Dreams
• Gone Girl
• The French Connection

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