jeanette winterson / camille on her deathbed, claude monet / the fabelmans / bojack horseman / lulu wang / the two fridas, frida kahlo / how to train your dragon, #1 / fun home / untitled, félix gonzález-torres / cabaret / little women / the sick child, edvard munch / jason schwartzman / "supercut," lorde
The kind of films I don't think of often, and yet ...
The kind of films I don't think of often. I might have seen some of them more than once but none are my all time favorite films. Nevertheless, the feelings they brought to my senses remain intact. There is something about each and every that brings me a wave of reminiscence and warmheartedness.
My mind has never gotten over the B&W frames of Cold War or Gueros, my heart never carried on the same after the journeys of familial warmth in The Farewell or Little Miss Sunshine. I have never stopped listening to California' Dreaming ever since the cleaning scene from Chungking Express. The absurdity of The Lobster still hunts me years after my last watch. And how could anyone come back the same after the sea scenes in each of The Hands of God and Moonlight?
Whale Rider (2002), dir. Niki Caro // Crying In H Mart (2021), Michelle Zauner // Daughters of the Dust (1991), dir. Julie Dash // Muttererde (2018), dir. Jessica Lauren Elizabeth Taylor // The Burial of Kojo (2018), dir. Blitz Bazawule // Crying In H Mart (2021), Michelle Zauner // The Farewell (2019), dir. Lulu Wang // Black Indian (2019), Shonda Buchanan // Bandits (1997), dir. Katja von Garnier
Crazy Rich Asians and the Farewell are on opposite sides of the same question of Western vs Eastern values of individuality and family and both of them make me cry
1. Writer in the dark by Lorde // 2&3. Gia 1998 // 4&5. Lady Bird 2017 // 6. @honeytuesday // 7. When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities, Chen Chen // 8. Past and Present no.2 by Augustus Leopold Egg 1858 // 9. On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, Ocean Vuong // 10. White Oleander, Janet Fitch // 11. Euphoria S02 E05 // 12. Buffet Etiquette, Hieu Minh Nguyen // 13. source // 14&15. White Oleander 2002 // 16. The Farewell 2019 // 17. Discovering The Inner Mother, Bethany Webster // 18. Patricide, Dave Harris // 19. A Hopeless Dawn by Frank Bramley // 20. Family Portrait by Pink // 21. Class of 2013 by Mitski // 22. Mother and Child 2 by Nguyen Thanh Binh // 23. Sharp Objects, Gillian Flynn // 24. @maiabaia // 25. Maid 2021 // 26. source
Call me by your name / Beetlejuice / The Discreet Charm of Bourgeoisie / Spirited Away / The Farewell / Shoplifters / Before Midnight / The Godfather 2 / Little Miss Sunshine / Piku
moonlight (2016) dir. barry jenkins // the farewell (2019) dir. lulu wang // everything everywhere all at once (2022) dir. daniel kwan, daniel scheinert // aftersun (2022) dir. charlotte walls
“You know, one of the few good memories of my childhood were those summers at Nai Nais's. They had that garden, Ye Ye and I would catch dragonflies. And then we just moved to the States. Everything was different. Everyone was gone. And it was just the three of us.”