Please Don't Destroy: The Treasure of Foggy Mountain (2023) dir. Paul Briganti
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→ Interview: Sophie Reid on ‘Brokeback Mountain’ and ‘Lone Wolf’
“Mike Faist and Lucas Hedges are both incredible in the sense that they’re very receptive actors—they feed off of each other. They’re keen improvisers. For me, I was being very receptive to what they were doing all the time. Simply by observing them, that affected how we all sang and how we all performed the material that supported what they were doing.”
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a few hours ago i finished aftersun (2022) and it’s going right in the section of movies that have emotionally wrecked me.
within about a year’s timeframe i have watched the lost daughter (2021), synecdoche new york (2008), everything everywhere all at once (2022), private life (2018), mass (2021), the florida project (2017), manchester by the sea (2016), the fallout (2021), the tale (2018), a mouthful of air (2021), and now aftersun (2022). these characters that live in these films remind me of the beauty of life and how it’s tucked into a bed of pain. i have thought about all of them for hours. i’ve cried over them. i’ve spoken to my therapist about some of them. even though some of them brought a pit into my heart i still love them. i love film. it’s beautiful. i love how emotionally powerful it is. i love the perspectives it can give on every aspect of the human experience. how you can watch something you’ve never experienced and yet it feel so familiar to you. or how you can watch something you have experienced and feel so seen and heard in a way you never thought was possible. art is beautiful. i never want humans to stop creating. film is something i need in my life and i don’t care how dramatic that sounds. the ability to express emotion in a creative setting is necessary for everyone whether you’re the creator or are a viewer. i don’t know what else to say except that life is so fucking difficult and there’s so many moments that are hard to grasp and understand, and it’s tough but knowing that i’m still here means there’s so much beauty and happiness and laughter and joy that will fill my days. just keep going, keep creating, and keep consuming any sort of art. it’s necessary for the soul.
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You Can’t Just Die:
“I don’t like the fact that, nowadays, it feels like it’s not permissible to leave something unresolved, I mean, what the fuck is closure? Some people never get that. Some people live with their trauma for years. I don’t like this lie that everybody gets over things that easily. Some people can’t get over something major that’s happened to them at all; why can’t they have a movie too? Why can’t there be one film about somebody who doesn’t magically bounce back?”
-Kenneth Lonergan
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Manchester by the Sea, MA USA
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