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Pillow Talk is a late 1950s sassy sex comedy where Hollywood’s most handsome Scorpio, Rock Hudson, scams and seduces the incredibly delightful Doris Day into falling for his romantic schemes. Their flirtatious banter is so effortless and a lot of fun to watch!
Despite the film’s dated sexual politics, I love the CinemaScope split screens highlighting the pair’s phone calls (the bathtub scene where they unknowingly play footsies is too funny), Day’s covetable mid-century New York apartment (pink countertops in…
Midnight, a late 1930s Cinderella story, is a million times more charming than the last Mitchell Leisen screwball comedy I watched — in no part thanks to the romantic chemistry between the always adorable Claudette Colbert (I’m obsessed with her cheekbones!) and the downright dashing Don Ameche (Glen Powell, is that you?)… I was instantly smitten with those two playful scammers!
I’m so tempted to pre-order the Criterion Blu-ray just so I can gawk at Colbert’s balloon sleeves on her beautiful dress and Ameche’s formfitting black turtleneck until I grow sick of them, which I doubt will ever, ever happen.
I like my screwball comedies sprinkled with sexual innuendo, and this wasn’t really doing it for me. There’s way too much shouting and tiresome slapstick antics (I had a migraine while watching it last week). Sorry, not sorry!
I still love you, Jean Arthur! Please don’t hate me, cgavin… 🥲
Exotica is quite possibly the most empathetic film about transactional/therapeutic relationships and trauma.
With every re-watch, I appreciate Atom Egoyan’s psychoanalytic storytelling structure and the deliberately slow reveal akin to a striptease. His nuanced depiction of desperate, codependent people processing painful emotions through repetition compulsion or rituals in the hopes of reconciling with their past and finally *living* in the present is heart-rending and relatable.
I feel for these individuals craving intimate connections, but they’re unable to cope with the…
The Adjuster is one of the most uncomfortable films I’ve sat through, and I say this as a compliment… It’s so cryptic and so Canadian (harrowing and horny). I’m certainly into it!
Also, ~perverted Pisces~ Elias Koteas can sweet-talk anyone with that soft-spoken voice of his! *Swoon*
~Pisces icons~ John Cale and Lou Reed eulogize Andy Warhol in an intimate performance of their album, “Songs for Drella.”
The interactions between the two men on stage (they hadn't played together for nearly 20 years) and Ed Lachman’s melancholic blue lighting during “Slip Away (A Warning)” and “A Dream” melted my heart!
Coincidentally, I watched this on Reed’s birthday, even though I have a big crush on Cale. Can you believe they were born exactly a week apart?! That explains A LOT.
House of Tolerance is sublime filmmaking by Bertrand Bonello — it truly feels like you’re peering into the lives of the ladies in a Henri de Toulouse-Latrec painting.
Although I wish I could articulate my thoughts about the film more thoroughly (I have a lot of them!), there are several moments embedded in my mind forever: sad swaying to the song “Nights in White Satin,” wilted white rose petals slowly falling to the floor, and ‘The Woman Who Laughs’ crying thick white tears of cum.
P.S. I’m not sure how many ~gut punch endings~ I can endure after this one…
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Miss Osbourne is a 19th-century chamber drama/gothic horror/Euro-sleaze retelling of Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic story featuring Walerian Borowczyk’s signature flair for capturing ~beauty and brutality~ through a soft-focus camera lens.
While Freudian psychology and Transcendental medicine permeate the film’s disorienting, dreamlike atmosphere as Bernard Parmegiani’s score drones on, what I enjoyed most was its inclusion of Marina Pierro as Dr. Henry Jekyll’s fiancé, Fanny Osbourne.
In a climactic scene, she subverts all Victorian-era…
I *live* for melodramatic morality tales that criticize Catholicism and contain a lavish early 20th-century costume/set design with lush European landscapes!
He’s the only ~perverted Dutchman~ who made me weep after watching a turbulent, tender, and tragic love story unfold while still unabashedly showing plenty of blood, cum, feces, sweat, tears, and vomit on-screen!
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