Body Double, Brian De Palma, 1984

the love was there. it didn't change anything. it didn't save anyone.

manon, ballerina, antoine de saint-exupéry / twin size mattress, the front bottoms / overpass graffiti, ed sheeran / the calendar, panic! at the disco / waiting for this story to end before i begin another, jan heller lev / olivia de recat (x) / @ojibwa (x) / as it was, harry styles [music video (2022) dir. tanu muino] / kate mcgahan / sign of the times, harry styles / the life aquatic with steve zissou (2004) dir. wes anderson / fourth of july, fall out boy / the 1, taylor swift / i'm thinking of ending things, jain reid / keep driving, harry styles / rien ne va plus, margarita karapanou / caption: @jediheretic (x)

the banshees of inisherin (2022)

what are some movies you know too much about?

writer and director paul thomas anderson specifically wrote the part of frank tj mackey in MAGNOLIA (1999) for tom cruise after tom loved PTA’s 1997 film BOOGIE NIGHTS so much he called him to congratulate him on it (which PTA has said was like getting a call from the president of the united states of movies) and invited him to visit the set of EYES WIDE SHUT in england. there they struck up a friendship and PTA promised to write tom a part in his next film. six months later tom was still shooting EWS but PTA sent him the script for MAGNOLIA and the part of mackey, a manic motivational speaker and misogynistic pick up artist with a deep well of childhood trauma and daddy issues. the role of tom’s estranged father, earl partridge played by jason robards in his final film, is a mix of both PTA’s father and tom’s — both had lost their fathers at a young age to cancer (PTA in 1997 when he was 26 and tom in 1983 when he was 21) and both of whom had complicated relationships with their fathers. like earl, PTA’s father was a television producer and the voice of the abc network for decades who put his work first. like earl, tom’ss father was an abusive alcoholic who abandoned tom (and his sisters) when he was 12 and whom he saw once in the intervening years before his death upon which he allowed his children to visit him one last time. the scene in MAGNOLIA where frank confronts earl as he dies is supposed to end with frank telling earl that he won’t cry for him but PTA didn’t feel like that was enough so he asked tom to tap into his feelings over losing his father, first to abandonment and then to death, for the next take. frank’s breakdown where he sobs and rages at earl “don't go away, you fucking asshole, don't go away” over and over was improvised by tom and was so raw and moving that philip seymour hoffman, who plays earl’s nurse, said that when you see him in the background of that scene his tears are real and an actual emotional response to tom’s performance.

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SUBLIME CINEMA #614 - THE DARJEELING LIMITED

I like this movie less overall than other Wes Anderson films, but I keep coming back to it for various reasons. It is drenched in an intangible nostalgia - the music, the locales, the colors, the friendships in a far away place - that is immensely attractive to me. It’s a feast for the senses, and if i feel lonely on a trip somewhere far away, this film has often been a companion. 

While it is a fantasy vision of India, it contains images that are wonderful, and are really incomparable to any other film (though Anderson was obviously inspired by Bollywood, Ray and Merchant / Ivory, even pilfering from the scores from some of those films to populate his own soundtrack). 

Sometimes at playtime, I look up to the sky, and if I can see the sun then, I think about the fact that we can both see the sun. So, even though we're not actually in the same place, and we're not actually together, we kind of are in a way, you know? Like we're both underneath the same sky, so we're kind of together. AFTERSUN (2022) dir. Charlotte Wells

Aftersun (Charlotte Wells, 2022)      

Aftersun (2022) dir. Charlotte Wells

“Sometimes at playtime, I look up at the sky and if I can see the Sun then... I think that the fact that we can both see the Sun, so even though we're not actually in the same place and we're not actually together... we kind of are in a way, you know? Like we're both underneath the same sky, so... kind of together.”

Bones & All (2022)

dir. Luca Guadagnino

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coincidences are a proof of God’s existence.

Tatuagem (2013) dir. Hilton Lacerda

Pearl (2022) dir. Ti West

Bitch!

Who Wants to Play Bodies Bodies Bodies: A Note from Halina Reijn — 08.12.2022

tatuagem (2013) dir. hilton lacerda