joyce

Favorite films

  • Tout Va Bien
  • Nowhere
  • Three Bewildered People in the Night
  • PlayTime

All
  • Party Girl

    ★★★½

  • The Devil Wears Prada

    ★★½

  • Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning

    ★★★

  • Sinners

    ★★★★

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Party Girl

1995

★★★½ Watched

i appreciate this as a movie that happens to you. but halfway through i realized i dont know anything about the characters or what they’re supposed to be doing. it’s like a straight araki film

The Devil Wears Prada

2006

★★½ Watched

tw: divaphobia, motherphobia

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I Saw the TV Glow

2024

★★★★ Liked Rewatched

A while ago, and still now, I am afraid of writing. Especially short form writing, because I think my style and interests lend themselves best to nuance, re-treading, etc.

In response, Emily mentioned that nuance is not what an essay is supposed to do — an essay is like a shotgun, it’s crude, it blows the door off its subject, nuance and thinking come later.

That’s how I feel about this film, whose subtext is so textual that it’s hard…

Love Lies Bleeding

2024

★★ Watched

Me: “Dude… I think this movie might suck.”

Elias: “Aughhh… but she was sucking her toes!”

The camera regards every woman outside of the main couple with such contempt it’s actually upsetting. Lazy writing, gags in lieu of deepening stakes or emotion.