a l'allure garconniere

m by fritz lang, 1931

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honeymoonred:

lecollecteur:

Lovers at the movies, c.1940, Weegee.

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I Will Forget This Day (Alina Rudnitskaya, 2011)

“This was absolutely wonderful. Groups of women of all different ages are waiting for have abortions, or trying to have abortions in Russia. Formally it was very interesting, having various shots of women waiting, hanging up their housecoats, being wheeled out. This repetitive, staccato quality of the editing but the silence and stillness of the image worked wonderfully together. The pacing and the historical context linked these two pretty neatly.”

(via batarde: TIFF Day 2 (or Wavelengths for those who don’t have the time) (I had this pun last year))

OOOOOOO i want to see this.

pcapopcultureaddict:

Movie Meme Day 2 - A Movie That is Underrated - Josie and the Pussycats

It’s the best comic book movie that you’ve never seen.  It is flawed, but some of the social commentary on marketing, celebrities and the ways that media manipulates the public and consumers is absolutely brilliant and eerily accurate.  You also notice clever little sight gags with each rewatching.  The music is fantastic, and the girls play the Pussycats to pure perfection.  It is really a clever film, but the people who saw it didn’t understand it, and the people who might have got it didn’t go and see it.  Why?  Because it was marketed to the wrong audience.  Oh the irony.

Close runner up - Speed Racer.  The critics hammered it, but its brilliant.

i wonder if i was the intended audience: i was 14 or 15, just getting into indie rock and feminism, and learning to play the guitar, on top of having grown up reading archie comics which sometimes included josie and the pusscats and/or sabrina the teenage witch. i haven’t seen it the movie again since i first saw it back in 2001, but listened to the soundtrack all the time (was it letters to cleo?) (and why do i feel like seaponies will relate to this?) and loved the boyband/pop culture satire aspect of it. i think this is around the time i was starting to differentiate kitsch/camp from just plain bad… but i was also still compulsively watching 1980s b-movies with my friend laurie because the rental place in our small town didn’t ever have new releases, so who knows, my perspective was probably skewed.

anyway. i remember having a really great conversation about the movie with my high school media studies teacher at the time, so i think even i “got” it at the time. also i think this is the first movie i saw rosario dawson in, and that probably started my crush.