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aw cute~ :) nyah~

the flames rose to her roman nose and her walkman started to melt (god i love that line)

bigmouth strikes again

i am now excited for this album that i didnt know existed til minutes ago

oh it's the 15th. damn. oh well. This song is awesome though wow

Persona is a pretty... heavy intro to Bergman. I would definitely recommend watching it again, but probably not until you've seen some of his other, more accessible, ones. My first reaction was a bit similar to yours, although probably not quite as extreme, but each time I've rewatched it (about 3 times now), I enjoy it more and more and now it's one of my favourites.

I'd recommend watching Smiles of a Summer Night, Wild Strawberries, The Seventh Seal and Cries and Whispers. Of those, I only really like the last one (and by 'like' I mean absolutely head-over-heels fucking love), but the others are a good overview if you want to 'get' what Bergman is doing. Persona is entirely its own thing unto itself, but you might get more out of it the next time you watch it once you have a bit more Bergman under your belt.

oh my god what day in march? my bday is in march i need to give people an idea what to get me

new Sufjan album?!

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Neutral Milk Hotel is coming to Boise this summer. Part of me says I should go, the other tells me not to. I've never gone to a show before BTW

Inherent Vice was a weird one. It was a 'secret' 'special' screening before it came out in the UK, and PTA even introduced it, and it was the most white-and-nerdy-and-male cinephile audience there was, and everyone was having a great time except me. I loved all the voiceover narration, which I gather was lifted straight from the book, and it looked pretty and Phoenix/Brolin were good, but the general sense of aimlessness that I was expecting just felt... not what I wanted. It made me very interested in the book itself, but I don't really want to see the film again.

And yeah, that's what being a responsible-as-fuck adult with disposable income can do to your time management: seeing lots of films! There's a film festival in London every October, and a lot of the ones on that list are from there, but I average about 60+ a year. I saw Under the Skin at that festival in 2013 and really liked it, and then saw it again with a live score a few months later. Interestingly, I think I preferred the recorded score, even though everyone else in the venue seemed to be eating up all of the whirring and violin craziness. But yeah. I liked it a lot.

I hadn't thought about the Dog Star Man parallels, but yes! Of course! And I think we liked ISABD for very similar reasons as, though I didn't cry, I did come out verrrrrrry emotionally drained afterwards. Like, super-drained. I can't really imagine seeing it as three separate short films, as it coheres together so beautifully.

My Malicks probably go: Days of Heaven > The Thin Red Line > Badlands >> The Tree of Life >>>>>>> To The Wonder. I've heard very varying things about Knight of Cups but I'll probably buy a ticket anyway. I would recommend seeing Thin Red Line in the best quality possible. The first time I saw it, it was late at night on TV. I liked it but wasn't blown away and thought it was too long. The second time I saw it on Blu-Ray in full HD and was just all woooooooooow. The battle scenes were immaculate, the cinematography was beautiful and it didn't feel too long this time. So yeah, however you watch it, just watch it in as high an image quality as possible.

I'm a big Joaquin Phoenix fan also. Even in films that I'm not massive fans of (Inherent Vice, The Master etc.) I tend to always really like his performances. We Own The Night and Her are my faves, and he is very good in The Immigrant (although it's definitely the Marion Cotillard show in that regard). If you like melodrama, I'd highly recommend Imitation of Life from 1955. It's probably the most purely emotional film I've ever seen: so expressive in its acting, its cinematography, its production design, everything. I'm not a crier, but that one is definitely the closest I've come to crying at a film, so that says a lot.

Also, you might want to check this out.

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Completely agree with you on the Grand Scheme Of Things (nice capitalisation, also!) It is ultimately useless to compare artistic media, as they're doing different things. The seemingly eternal debate of 'which is better: TV or film!!???!!???' that people enter into, for example, drives me up the wall like nothing else.

Glad you liked It's Such A Beautiful Day so much. I think Alex liked it for very different reasons than I did, but I found it such an emotional and heartbreaking experience; I needed a good hour or so to collect my thoughts after coming out of the screening! Presumably Alex recommended other Don Hertzfeldts to you? (Rejected being the example we bonded over before I finally got him to see ISABD!) The Tree of Life I'm much iffier on, but accept that a lot of people love the bejeezus out of it. My go-to Malicks are Days of Heaven and The Thin Red Line. They're so gosh-darn purty!

And since you've just started following me on Letterboxd, you can check out my top films of 2014 there! I sort by world premiere date because I'm an anal d-bag when it comes to things like that, but of the 'mainstream'-ish films that got released in the US last year, my favourite would be The Immigrant. A period melodrama set in 1920s New York, it has absolutely luscious cinematography, breathtaking performances from Marion Cotillard and Joaquin Phoenix, and so much melodramatic emotion it makes my head hurt. The very definition of simple story well told. My favourite film that I actually saw last year was The Tribe, a film about a school for deaf kids told entirely in Ukrainian un-subtitled sign language. It has these amazing long takes and, after the first 5 minutes when you're getting your bearings about how to 'watch' the film, it's just amazing to watch it unfold in front of you. It shouldn't work but it really really does! If and when it comes out in the US, you should definitely get your ass straight to it.

Oh yeah, I getcha. With music, especially, I find that I react to things a lot more emotionally than I do film/TV/books etc. So I can often have wildly differing reactions to things than I expect to going in.

That being said, I do love a fucking good harmony. And Fleet Foxes have those in spades!

Whereas I kinda love Fleet Foxes but found a few tracks on here a bit lacking in whatever energy that they normally bring. At least on a first go-round. I often find that my opinion changes dramatically upon further examination.

I understand what you mean re: something 'missing' on the album. I think I need to listen to it a few more times to fully form some thoughts on it.

I swear to god, I was reading one of your posts when the line in your signature came up on Spotify. Listening to the album now. Sounds good so far!