Craziest thing about La Bola Negra is usually after a screening half the venue leave because they have other screenings or stuffs to do but this time the entire theater was packed for the 20 min standing ovation. No one left their seat. Madness
this maddening bit of discourse makes a lot more sense in a context where, to a lot of the people doing it, "sesame oil, chili oil, sesame seeds, rice vinegar" are strange and exotic, but salt/pepper/butter/olive oil is basic normal and just sort of appears in your fridge
ICE murdered Renée Good in broad daylight. Less than 3 weeks later, they killed Alex Pretti, shooting him 10 times. Every day, we watch as people are ripped from their cars, their homes, their lives.
We can't allow ourselves to look away from this cruelty. Abolish ICE.
I want to thank our courageous friends in Minnesota who — in below freezing temperatures — are standing up to ICE. The American people want democracy and justice, not authoritarianism. When we stand together we win.
Esa escena en sentimental value cuando una hermana le pregunta a otra cómo pudo formar una familia después de la infancia que tuvieron y la otra le dice "no tuvimos la misma infancia, yo te tuve a vos, me sentí a salvo" es lo más hermoso que nos dejó el cine del 2025.
"When he was young, Hou Hsiao-hsien went to a dance hall with Edward Yang. Yang stared at one girl and said, 'Look at that girl, the miracle of a girl becoming a woman.' Yang spoke with both admiration and amazement, but [for] Hou... 'No matter how I looked, I couldn't see it.'"
there is a part in Marty Supreme where he tells someone very close to him directly that she is essentially an NPC while he is burdened by a higher purpose and it was such a raw look into the psyche of so many men in their 20s that it made me wince
Very curious to me that every AI actor is a young woman and no one ever bothers to make anything else. I wonder why our society is so obsessed with imagining and controlling young women, while also stealing their labor and returning those roles to men
funny how when i rate something lower than my friends on letterboxd, i’m exhibiting a rare, higher level discernment, and when i rate something higher, i’m demonstrating a more textured, holistic appreciation than most;