Rafaela Bassili

writer

[Rafaela Bassili @sallyjaygorce]

The Love Story finale is a showcase for every questionable narrative instinct put to use throughout the season. More thoughts here:

[Vulture @vulture]

Carolyn and John’s doomed flight to Martha’s Vineyard was set up as the grand finale from the very first minute of the show, so what explanation is there to drag this ending out for nearly 30 minutes after the plane hits a storm? https://t.co/Kj8NtSnf8O

[Notebook @mubinotebook]

"Though it has the force and scope of myth, it’s impossible to extract from it any neat lessons, or to answer with any confidence a simple question: What is Wuthering Heights about? Where Hollywood is concerned, Wuthering Heights is about love..."

Rafaela Bassili (@sallyjaygorce) writes on adaptations of Emily Brontë’s 1847 novel, from William Wyler's WUTHERING HEIGHTS to Emerald Fennell's "WUTHERING HEIGHTS": https://t.co/h28m6c1kG5

[Rafaela Bassili @sallyjaygorce]

@responsiblerob Love you😭🩷

[Rafaela Bassili @sallyjaygorce]

@ocalebelopes opa, obrigada pela leitura! :)

[Notebook @mubinotebook]

"The visual language of horror films is everywhere in The Secret Agent, and this, too, is an anthropophagic move: [Kleber] Mendonça Filho transposes the tropes of the American genre film to a place that operates, day in and day out, according to the logic of horror..."

Revisit Rafaela Bassili (@sallyjaygorce) on THE SECRET AGENT: https://t.co/wMA8NyZ23M

[MUBI @mubi]

Recently on @mubinotebook:⁠
🔹 @danielkasman surveys @berlinale filmmakers on key moments from their new films
🔹 @adriancurry shares personal reflections on the posters of Béla Tarr; Katherine Franco (@kaththegr8) on Francisco Lezama, Martín Rejtman, and El Pampero Cine; Elissa Suh (@oddbarnacles) writes on feral eating in feminist cinema; @mattlloydturner traces a history of the cutscene; Rafaela Bassili (@sallyjaygorce) dives into adaptations of Emily Brontë’s WUTHERING HEIGHTS
🔹 Elena Lazic (@elazic) sits down with Simón Mesa Soto to discuss A POET; Adam Nayman (@brofromanother) talks with NIRVANNA THE BAND THE SHOW THE MOVIE director Matt Johnson; @mattlloydturner speaks with director Ross McElwee about his latest documentary REMAKE

(Pictured film: Martin Scorsese’s THE WOLF OF WALL STREET)

[Notebook @mubinotebook]

"The quotes around the title remind the viewer that the filmmaker is putting herself at a remove from her own material. Even the sex... absent of any darkness or longing, is vanilla."

Rafaela Bassili (@sallyjaygorce) on Emerald Fennell's WUTHERING HEIGHTS.https://t.co/IdPis3dG9w

[Rafaela Bassili @sallyjaygorce]

Read here! https://t.co/fQkZ9zo0PP

[Rafaela Bassili @sallyjaygorce]

Now up on @mubinotebook, my long-brewing consideration of Wuthering Heights across the centuries & Emerald Fennell’s, uh, thing… 🥀

[Rafaela Bassili @sallyjaygorce]

I wrote about Suburban Fury, a strange, compelling documentary about Sara Jane Moore, who attempted to kill Gerald Ford in 1975. Over at @DefectorMedia: https://t.co/lm3AVl2kKk

[The Atlantic @TheAtlantic]

Ironically, in attempting to argue for Jane Birkin as a secret visionary, a new biography neglects what about her life was most interesting, writes @sallyjaygorce: https://t.co/wOYNvulFt4

[Rafaela Bassili @sallyjaygorce]

For @TheAtlantic, I reviewed the new Jane Birkin biography. She was an extraordinary woman who lived a varied, intense, messy life; the book can't always make sense of it. https://t.co/J1ELpy0vjP

[The Atlantic @TheAtlantic]

In arguing for Jane Birkin as a secret visionary, a new biography ironically neglects the most interesting thing about her life, @sallyjaygorce writes: https://t.co/QI0TT0odJF

[Rafaela Bassili @sallyjaygorce]

@juribeirodelima Hahahahah amei

[Rafaela Bassili @sallyjaygorce]

@kmendoncafilho Obrigada, Kleber! Eu adorei o filme :) abraço!

[Notebook @mubinotebook]

"It was damned if you do, damned if you don’t; or, as we’d say in Brazil, If you run, the beast will catch you; if you stay, the beast will eat you."⁠
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Rafaela Bassili (@sallyjaygorce) writes on the absurdity and horror peculiar to Brazil captured in Kleber Mendonça Filho’s paranoid thriller THE SECRET AGENT: https://t.co/wMA8NyZzTk

[Kleber Mendonça Filho @kmendoncafilho]

Que país é esse?

[Rafaela Bassili @sallyjaygorce]

The Secret Agent opens today! When I watched it at @TheNYFF I thought it was suco de Brasil: KMF squeezed the juice out of the country and made a paranoid thriller of the essence. On @mubinotebook, my tour thru Brazilian history, culture, film, etc: https://t.co/sseafWAL8h

[Notebook @mubinotebook]

"Working in Germany in the 1980s and early ’90s, during the golden age of romantic comedies in Hollywood, [Pia] Frankenberg saw that the absurdity of the genre rested in the devil’s bargain it offered women: your freedom for security. [...] The pressure women feel to weigh that bargain plagues every one of Frankenberg’s female protagonists."

Rafaela Bassili (@sallyjaygorce) on German filmmaker Pia Frankenberg: https://t.co/iwHvGYvACV

[Notebook @mubinotebook]

"Either you sacrifice security for love, or you sacrifice love for security."

With a retrospective now underway at @ICALondon, Rafaela Bassili (@sallyjaygorce) revisits the 1980s and ’90s anti-rom-coms of underseen German auteur Pia Frankenberg.
https://t.co/ICHK3URrA5