Paraphærnalia

Paraphærnalia

Not rating—just improvriting.
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Favorite films

  • Dry Ground Burning
  • Chicken Poets
  • News from Ideological Antiquity - Marx/Eisenstein/The Capital

Recent activity

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  • On the Road

  • Holy Cow

  • I'm No Longer Here

  • Insiang

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Holy Cow
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Absolutely adorable. This just catapulted Louise Courvoisier high up my (yet to be written^^) directors-to-keep-two-eyes-on list.

"Totone!" ( . Y . )

Sometimes life should really be just like cinema, sprinkled throughout with plenty of carefree moments like this

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A Private Life

Murder mysteries: still not my type of entertainment.
I did like the pick of a therapist as 'lead investigator' though. Having been in therapy for a good couple years myself, I can only imagine how tremendously mentally exhausting it must be sometimes to endure the whole thing sitting on the other side of the room/the screen. And how invested in their patients' lives one can eventually end up getting, whether you want it or not.

Also, I found it genuinely…

The Watermelon Woman
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Another one for the favorites. Cheryl Dunye crafts a bold, beautiful, and wonderfully fun story about, well, the vital importance of telling one’s own story. It’s a courageous and tender enterprise, building a delicate bridge between overt criticism and subtle parody, which makes the film so special. For more than one reason, it called to mind another great work of art: Audre Lorde’s fantastic biomythography, Zami: A New Spelling of My Name.

I try to avoid ending reviews with ‘I…

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