“I have a purpose. If you think that it's some kind of blessing, it's not. It means I have an obligation to see a very specific thing through.”
It’s a blessing, a privilege, but mostly a curse, to dream big. And if you’re not well off, it’s both a hustle and humiliation ritual to keep that dream afloat. Especially when your dream is as lucrative/respectable as table tennis in America in the 1950s. An athlete, an artist, whatever it may…
Angelique: Do you believe in love?
Joe Gideon: I believe in saying, "I love you." It helps you concentrate.
Utterly insane. To make an entire auto-biographical film tearing yourself apart as an artist, your relationships, and as a person as a whole. And better yet, in the prime of your creative life.
All That Jazz is so self-aware, yet also revealing how shameless and egotistical figures like Joe Gideon are, and how it’s all bound to break a man.
“Do…
“Tuning a piano is about creating harmony out of chaos, and to do that you've got to be comfortable with imperfection.”
Another great sound-focused movie we don’t get enough of. Kind of like Baby Driver meets The Sound of Metal in the flashy sound-visual flares here and there amidst some fun crime montages, and the balance between one’s hearing issues and music. Most importantly being able to replicate that experience for the audience. Just a neat concept overall that’ll leave…
Dwight 'Ike' Eisenhower: Churchill thinks he's a genius.
Kay Summersby: Men are too fond of that word.
A war movie about meteorology… sounds like my Weather Channel-obsessed Dad’s wet dream.
Luckily a movie with Andrew Scott, Brendan Fraser, and Kerry Condon is mine too, so some good father-son bonding at the movies where one of us doesn’t get the short end of the stick quality-wise. And a good history lesson not to mention.
But this was honestly pretty riveting at…
me to my brother: look, it’s loggable *shows the film on my phone*
my cousin: i can’t with you guys and letterboxd
upon first listen, i was under the belief it was
"spongebob, big guy, pants so big," thinking not physically, but mentally at all the wisdom over the years he's gathered and held there, he's a sponge after all absorbing information constantly!
then, i gave it another go, and "SpongeBob, big guy, pants so thick" was what rang true to me. this could be applied to what i said with the first listen, but this particular line felt like ice spice…
