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It’s Different for ‘Girls’ by Emily Nussbaum, New York Magazine
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Posts tagged film
“ The filmmaker can look beautiful in the manner of twenties movie star Clara Bow: She has a small chin, a bow mouth, and very large brown eyes flecked with gold. But just as often, she lets herself look like hell. Dunham films herself nude, with her skin breaking out, her belly in folds, chin doubled, or flat on her back with her feet in a gynecologist’s stirrups. These scenes shouldn’t shock, but they do, if only because in a culture soaked in Photoshop and Botox, few powerful women open themselves up so aggressively to the judgment of voyeurs. ”
Shared this on F’book, but it deserves to be spread around these parts too.
(Source: zooeydeschanel)
Did You Know (DYK): Miranda July is my muse. One day I want to be a writer/director/actor/artist like her, that or just have a good life.
Excerpt from Sweet Charity, 1969
Vittorio Vidal: Thank you very much for everything, and I’m sorry for the way things turned out.
Charity Hope Valentine: I sorted figured, you know.
Vittorio Vidal: Why do you say that?
Charity Hope Valentine: ‘Cause you’re you and I’m me.
Screen cap, Le Mépris. Appreciate the contrast between Bardot’s beauty and the crude English subtitle.
Andrea Arnold’s Fish Tank isn’t an easy one to watch, but very much worth it. The film and its main character Mia are all at once quiet and intense. Won the BAFTA this year, deservedly so. In other words, I suggest you see it.
Saw Tamra Davis’ documentary Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child last night. Left the screening thoughtful and inspired. He was a true genius the world lost too soon.
