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reflections-in-a-critical-eye · 9 months

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Hello again M🕵🏻‍♀️,

I just read your answer to the 1950s film anon with the MUBI screenshots and got so very excited! 📽️😻🎞️

Your suggestions are in oh-so-excellent tastes! I had to come here to share my favs (okay some might be from the 60s…😳🫢)

🚬”Breathless” (Jean Seberg & Jan Paul Belmondo, need I say more?!)

🥲”Bonjour Tristesse” (again, Jean Seberg, and the novel by Françoise Sagan was an absolute banger too!)

📸 “Rear Window” (My fav Hitchcock. James Stewart is actually not annoying in this one.)

🌂”Mon Oncle” (Jacques Tati might be an acquired taste, esp. in America…but I love the minute details he obsess over in all his films that create the whole quirky-kitsh-odd, sometimes bizarre atmosphere)

💎”Breakfast at Tiffany’s” (🙄I know, cliche…but I just love Audrey Hepburn and George Peppard in this one, even with the despicable depiction of quasi Japonesque character Mr. Yunioshi played by Mickey Rooney. Funny how Peppard also went on to act in action films/shows later, just like Belmondo)

👑”Roman Holiday” (I’m partial to Gregory Peck in this one.)

⛵️”Plein Soleil” (Alain Delon is breathtaking in this one…)

Ohgosh~🫣there already are too many! Sorry! I’m just so excited for the transformation of your space where I can now find and talk about two of my odd varieties of obsessions (Bangtan & films)!

P.S. Much newer, but do you happen to like Wim Wenders films by any chance? What about Jim Jarmusch?

Your excitement is contagious, anon! This list takes me back to high school, each film has a different memory attached to it.

If you like Jean Seberg, I recommend listening to a series from the You Must Remember This podcast. Her career and life was discussed in detail in parallel with Jane Fonda. Look it up and you'll find it easily. The shooting for Bonjour Tristesse was a bit of a hell for Jean.

Your comment about James Stewart took me out because I understand the feeling. I'm not a fan, there's something about him that annoys me (maybe the way he talks?), but I can see that he was a good actor. I don't have anything serious to criticize.

Yes, Tati is an acquired taste. It never got to me to the point of wanting to watch a lot of his filmography, but he is one of a kind and an influence to those that came after him (Greta mentions him for the inspiration behind Barbie as well)

With Breakfast at Tiffany's, a cliche or not, does it matter? It's too iconic. Yes, it has a reputation and good material for specific tumblr/pinterest aesthetics, but for good reason. If we take all that aside, we're still left with something of value, given that it's also an adaption of a Capote novel.

There's so much to talk about Audrey Hepburn that it requires a separate post. I don't think Hollywood had another actress like her or even coming close to that kind of presence. She was a movie star in her own category. Anyway, I never became a fan of Gregory Peck (I didn't go and search his films) but damn the guy was hot. Can I have a Roman Holiday too? Just like that? 😄

Alain Delon in Plein Soleil is a sin. And a perfect summer film. With this guy, I have to manage to separate the actual person and his political beliefs from the star he was in the 60s. Same with Brigitte Bardot. Ignore and store that in the back of my head so I can enjoy the films.

As to your questions, I could never get into the Jarmusch vibe, although I did watch a few of his films. I don't have anything against him he's good and a true artist, but it doesn't match with my taste. With Wim Wenders, I know Wings of Desire, Paris, Texas, The American Friend, Pina. Again, it's the type of director that has his place in film history, but I never focused particularly on him.

#m thoughts #movie recs

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allthisheaven2 · 1 year

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top 5 fav films and books of all time 👀

also this one is really tough to answer i know but top 5 rory and jess moments

OH okayyy !!!!! ok these change literally all the time but for now:

fav films:

1. blue velvet

2. youve got mail & when harry met sally aka best of the nora ephron/meg ryan cinematic universe

3. kill bill vol 1

4. the french dispatch

5. city of bones film adaptation

fav books:

1. the secret history (the only constant i think)

2. bonjour tristesse (francoise sagan)

3. the mandarins (simone de beauvoir)

4. l’age d’or (diane mazloum) tied with ni toi ni moi (camille laurens)

5. currently a big fan of the sally rooney mundane esp conversations with friends

(honorable mention the princess diaries by meg cabot)

fav roryjess moments:

1. new york

2. teach me tonight “dont give me that whole misunderstood kurt cobainy thing” / “so courtney! what about you!!” like are u kidding me. marriage vows

3. why did you drop out of yale!!!!

4. 22.8 miles

5. unpopular opinion but their fight in the swan ep it hits in all the right places. esp when jess sees the portrait of rory. like its so symbolic so persuasion-core so well executed it leaves me nauseous in the best way. also they both look hot here so

#ask games #its 2023 where is the next donna tartt!!! im waiting!!!!!#lots of french bc im moving to france soon so ive been trying to familiarize myself a bit more with it!!!#the mandarins dragged i wont lie but overall i loved it. i love how she writes paris and intellectualism and the characters inner debacles #ab their relationships with one another and whether literature and honest writing is even important in a post war world #also im a Girl okay i see a guy with a bruised face and i go wah so #so for the swan black eye. yeah he looked Hot

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