Letterboxd - dianamulanzhu

Nosferatu, 2024 - ★★★★½

Thu, 2 Jan 2025 11:40:47 +1300

I suffer from psychogenic seizures and Lily Rose Depps performance was so horrifying and too close to home that I almost walked out multiple times. But I’m glad I stayed. Breathtakingly gorgeous, and a film deeply interested in the enthralling fascination, fear, disgust and compulsive obsession men have with trying and failing to control and understand young women’s sexuality, pleasure and power.

]]>

Black Christmas, 1974 - ★★★★★ (contains spoilers)

Thu, 2 Jan 2025 11:35:31 +1300

This review may contain spoilers.

Made in 1974, Black Christmas must have been on the cutting edge of the second wave women’s liberation movement at the time with the obvious feminist themes in the abortion plot. Yet, watching this film during the reproductive justice dystopia of 2024, I was still violently shook by the films clever subversion of Hallmark Christmas family ideals.

Black Christmas exposes the sheer rot of the worst despicable horrors possible lurking in the domestic familial confines. Beyond the obscene sexual harassment and violence the young women suffer at the hands of the killer, the abject and bizarre details in the film gesture to the wider existential stakes a woman faces when deciding whether or not to get an abortion. the jumbled and oblique references to child sexual abuse, incest, and perverse re-enacting of family roles in the phone calls are frightening to the women listening on the line for obvious disturbing reasons diegetically. But I also think these lurid tableaus performed by the killer via the technology of cables and machines winding from home to home stand in for an unspoken and unspeakable dread that women grapple with when being coerced into motherhood by partners, family or the state.

I think the choice to set this film at a college sorority house full of young women on the cusp of embarking into adult life, fateful lifelong decisions ahead of them, makes this critique clear. My favorite sequence was the parallel edit between the red nosed open mouth singing of child carolers and the stabbing of Margot Kidder with the glittering glass unicorn.

The characters are vividly written and performed and there’s also an incredible sense of dark humor that underscores the grisly tension. One of the best horror movies I’ve seen in a while. This one will stay with me.

]]>

Doctor Who: Joy to the World, 2024 - ★★

Thu, 2 Jan 2025 11:06:55 +1300

Watched on Thursday December 26, 2024.

]]>

The Wizard of Oz, 1939 - ★★★★

Thu, 2 Jan 2025 11:06:07 +1300

Watched on Thursday December 26, 2024.

]]>

Rope, 1948 - ★★★★½

Thu, 2 Jan 2025 11:04:38 +1300

Watched on Saturday December 21, 2024.

]]>

Kraven the Hunter, 2024 - ★★★

Thu, 2 Jan 2025 11:03:45 +1300

Watched on Friday December 13, 2024.

]]>

Trenque Lauquen, 2022 - ★★★★

Mon, 9 Dec 2024 20:18:04 +1300

Watched on Sunday December 8, 2024.

]]>

What about China?, 2020 - ★★★★½

Sun, 8 Dec 2024 06:14:37 +1300

Watched on Friday December 6, 2024.

]]>

Twilight: Los Angeles, 2000 - ★★★½

Fri, 6 Dec 2024 05:55:59 +1300

Watched on Tuesday November 26, 2024.

]]>

Anora, 2024 - ★★★★½

Fri, 6 Dec 2024 05:53:52 +1300

Watched on Sunday November 24, 2024.

]]>

Mamma Roma, 1962 - ★★★★

Fri, 6 Dec 2024 05:53:18 +1300

Watched on Tuesday December 3, 2024.

]]>

Diary of a Pregnant Woman, 1958 - ★★★★½

Fri, 6 Dec 2024 05:52:47 +1300

Watched on Tuesday November 26, 2024.

]]>

The Cranes Are Flying, 1957 - ★★★★½

Fri, 6 Dec 2024 05:51:43 +1300

Watched on Thursday November 21, 2024.

]]>

All This Wasted Space, 2023 - ★★★★

Mon, 18 Nov 2024 18:54:27 +1300

Watched on Monday November 18, 2024.

]]>

Aggregat, 2024 - ★★★★

Mon, 18 Nov 2024 18:54:06 +1300

Watched on Monday November 18, 2024.

]]>

Institution, 2024 - ★★★★

Mon, 18 Nov 2024 18:45:36 +1300

Watched on Monday November 18, 2024.

]]>

Uncle Bardo, 2024 - ★★★★

Mon, 18 Nov 2024 18:45:20 +1300

Watched on Monday November 18, 2024.

]]>

The Last of the Sea Women, 2024 - ★★★★

Sat, 16 Nov 2024 14:23:27 +1300

Watched on Friday November 15, 2024.

]]>

Possibly in Michigan, 1983 - ★★★★½

Sat, 16 Nov 2024 14:22:53 +1300

Watched on Thursday November 14, 2024.

]]>

Cairo Station, 1958 - ★★★

Sat, 16 Nov 2024 14:21:53 +1300

Watched on Tuesday November 12, 2024.

]]>

Rome, Open City, 1945 - ★★★★★

Sat, 16 Nov 2024 14:21:17 +1300

Watched on Tuesday November 5, 2024.

]]>

Parasite, 2019 - ★★★★½

Sat, 16 Nov 2024 14:20:53 +1300

Watched on Monday November 4, 2024.

]]>

The Housemaid, 1960 - ★★★★

Tue, 5 Nov 2024 03:56:54 +1300

Watched on Friday November 1, 2024.

]]>

The Silent Holy Stones, 2005 - ★★½

Sat, 2 Nov 2024 13:13:34 +1300

Watched on Tuesday October 29, 2024.

]]>

Voices of Orchid Island, 1993 - ★★★½

Sat, 2 Nov 2024 13:13:11 +1300

Watched on Sunday October 27, 2024.

]]>

Reassemblage: From the Firelight to the Screen, 1983 - ★★★★★

Sat, 2 Nov 2024 13:12:48 +1300

Watched on Monday October 28, 2024.

]]>

Moi, un Noir, 1959 - ★★★★

Sat, 2 Nov 2024 13:11:55 +1300

Watched on Monday October 28, 2024.

]]>

Africa on the Seine, 1955 - ★★★★

Sat, 2 Nov 2024 13:11:41 +1300

Watched on Monday October 28, 2024.

]]>

Crows and Sparrows, 1949 - ★★★½

Sun, 27 Oct 2024 02:50:13 +1300

Watched on Thursday October 24, 2024.

]]>

Münchhausen, 1943 - ★★★

Sun, 27 Oct 2024 02:49:52 +1300

Watched on Friday October 25, 2024.

]]>

A Question of Silence, 1982 - ★★★★½

Sun, 27 Oct 2024 02:49:12 +1300

Watched on Monday October 21, 2024.

]]>

Green Room, 2015 - ★★★★

Sun, 27 Oct 2024 02:48:25 +1300

Watched on Monday October 21, 2024.

]]>

Abandoned Adopted Here, 2015 - ★★★

Mon, 21 Oct 2024 12:04:11 +1300

Watched on Saturday October 19, 2024.

]]>

Born, Unborn and Born Again, 2020 - ★★★★

Mon, 21 Oct 2024 12:03:48 +1300

Watched on Saturday October 19, 2024.

]]>

Bigger Is Better, 2021 - ★★★½

Mon, 21 Oct 2024 12:03:24 +1300

Watched on Saturday October 19, 2024.

]]>

An Anshan Story, 2021 - ★★★½

Mon, 21 Oct 2024 12:02:50 +1300

Watched on Saturday October 19, 2024.

]]>

Grand Illusion, 1937 - ★★★★½

Wed, 16 Oct 2024 07:04:22 +1300

Watched on Friday October 11, 2024.

]]>

M. Butterfly, 1993 - ★★★½

Wed, 16 Oct 2024 07:03:17 +1300

Watched on Tuesday October 15, 2024.

]]>

Challengers, 2024 - ★★★★

Wed, 16 Oct 2024 07:02:53 +1300

Watched on Saturday October 12, 2024.

]]>

Notting Hill, 1999 - ★★★★

Wed, 16 Oct 2024 07:02:32 +1300

Watched on Saturday October 12, 2024.

]]>

Anyone But You, 2023 - ★★★

Wed, 16 Oct 2024 07:02:16 +1300

Watched on Saturday October 12, 2024.

]]>

The Couple in the Cage, 1993 - ★★★★½

Tue, 8 Oct 2024 03:55:42 +1300

Watched on Friday October 4, 2024.

]]>

Everything in Between, 2000 - ★★★★½

Tue, 8 Oct 2024 03:55:19 +1300

Watched on Sunday October 6, 2024.

]]>

Piccadilly, 1929 - ★★½

Tue, 8 Oct 2024 03:54:56 +1300

Watched on Sunday October 6, 2024.

]]>

Mädchen in Uniform, 1931 - ★★★★

Sat, 5 Oct 2024 03:31:10 +1300

Watched on Thursday October 3, 2024.

]]>

The Substance, 2024 - ★★★★½

Fri, 4 Oct 2024 08:01:42 +1300

Watched on Wednesday October 2, 2024.

]]>

Man with a Movie Camera, 1929 - ★★★★½

Thu, 3 Oct 2024 04:46:50 +1300

Watched on Wednesday September 25, 2024.

]]>

The Lost Thing, 2010 - ★★★

Thu, 3 Oct 2024 04:45:54 +1300

Watched on Tuesday October 1, 2024.

]]>

Annah the Javanese Girl, 2020 - ★★★★½

Thu, 3 Oct 2024 04:45:40 +1300

Watched on Tuesday October 1, 2024.

]]>

Morocco, 1930 - ★★★½

Wed, 2 Oct 2024 17:03:36 +1300

Watched on Tuesday October 1, 2024.

]]>

With Fitzmartin's

Tue, 16 Jan 2024 11:23:54 +1300

Emma.

Rebecca

Psycho

Shirley

Inglourious Basterds

Tampopo

...plus 24 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

]]>

Watch w R

Sun, 7 May 2023 06:38:32 +1200

Past Lives

Infinity Pool

The Beguiled

Emma.

Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles

Mona Lisa Smile

Shirley

The Virgin Suicides

Burning

Girl with a Pearl Earring

...plus 54 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

]]>