oh to have a single jarmuschesque interaction in my sorry little life and pass away from awkwardness
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Z 1969
‘The military regime banned long hair, miniskirts, Sophocles, Tolstoy, Euripides, Russian-style toasts, strikes, Aristophanes, Ionesco, Sartre, Albee, Pinter, freedom of the press, sociology, Beckett, Dostoyevsky, modern music, pop music, new math and the letter Z, which means HE LIVES in ancient greek’
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The Goddess: How I Fell in Love 2004
disgusting floating escaping gritty childish hopeless senseless meaningless abysmal scary scary scary scary haunted self-absorbed innocuous accidental love
smiling when talking about something that will kill you
reading your own obituary
i don’t want to die because i’ve never loved anyone
i could float on my own expectations and my own self misery consisting of cherishing the perishing seconds of blissful ability to look at myself in the mirror
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The Ascent 1977
the unbroken half-smile of one and eyes full of tears of another linked by an invisible but scalding bridge that, like a raw nerve, devotes itself wholly to the generational succession of the grand knowing. the scalp frozen to a tree of one and the soft breath of another, saving a few hairs on his head, not yet knowing this hair will be fluttering in the wind remarkably soon, the savior being the one making the last push
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The Student 2016
this film is a cry for help in a country of the deaf. the only kind of coming of age we can afford here
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Mister Lonely 2007
well there goes my firm belief that my heart is definitely not a stupid fragile little thing that is very much breakable within a 112 minute period
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The Diamond Arm 1969
greatest comedy ever made. kino in its purest form. andrey mironov: the ultimate russian himbo chad sex symbol. ICONIC PERFECT BRILLIANT
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Everybody Dies But Me 2008
this is basically gummo x kids x meantime x lilya 4ever x elephant x thirteen. can’t believe i watched it when i was ~11. that’s childhood in russia for you