Oh my goodness, Love Lies Bleeding. Vile, bombastic, hot in the most desperate sweaty disgusting way, and with a heart as black as coal. Moral(?!) of the story: the 🐱 wants what it wants, and sometimes what it wants is a bodybuilding murderess.

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4/21/84: Theo Angelopoulos w/Voyage to Cythera
David Thomson: 'The beauty of the film has seldom been equaled'
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-GateCrashers: gatecrashers.fan/2023/06/05/voy…
-Christina Newland: bfi.org.uk/lists/10-great…
-Film Fest Gent: filmfestival.be/en/film/voyage…
-Bernstein/NYT: nytimes.com/1989/03/31/mov…

This, combined with Emma’s earlier dispatch on Jeremy Allen White, may be the opus on male sex symbols of our age x

“The pursuit of something bigger than yourself so often feels like banging your head against the wall. And when you bang your head against a wall, the wall always wins.”—from my favorite piece that Matt Singer / mattsinger.bsky.social has ever written

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Many things could be said about the flaws in my character but never can it be said I’m not a girl’s girl

Any journalist or researcher, but especially those who are freelance/don't have expensive institutional access, will tell you how invaluable archive.org is.

For Dazed Beauty I wrote a bit about Sydney Sweeney, the way we can’t help but to project meaning onto star
beauty, and how her new film Immaculate shows the producer-star is nothing if not self-aware:

dazeddigital.com/beauty/article…

Hell yeah. Love the Hollywood Crack-Up idea!!

Early days at Columbia: Gene photographed by A.L. ‘Whitey’ Schafer, 1939.

jaw on the floor…

Delighted to get a small mention in this great piece by steph green - now to actually get back to some screenings. Rest assured that work is currently underway! theguardian.com/film/2024/apr/…