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—Christy Desmet, ‘The Canonization of Laura Palmer’, from Full of Secrets: Critical Approaches to Twin Peaks. 

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i ❤️ my phone so i made it a bedroom to go to sleep in when i want to reduce my screen time

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At this point i only need 1 more photo! DM, reply, reblog or send to my inbox if interested!

hi strangers!

I am making a short film about being a sad trans teenager on the internet.

I need photos of gay people and their friends to be featured in one scene!

If anyone has any pictures they'd be willing to send me I would greatly appreciate it!

I will put you in the credits (under your name or username or alias or whatever you want).

The film will be posted to Youtube so make sure you/everyone in the photo is ok with that.

I'll obviously send you the link to the film when its complete.

thank you so much!!

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hi strangers!

I am making a short film about being a sad trans teenager on the internet.

I need photos of gay people and their friends to be featured in one scene!

If anyone has any pictures they'd be willing to send me I would greatly appreciate it!

I will put you in the credits (under your name or username or alias or whatever you want).

The film will be posted to Youtube so make sure you/everyone in the photo is ok with that.

I'll obviously send you the link to the film when its complete.

thank you so much!!

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eight, resentment

are these laurels to be proud of?

let me tell you how much ive come to hate you sice i began to live

hate, hate

I miss the world before AI image generation

Secondly, I also miss the world where AI image generation was just incoherent blobs and obvious fakes

Thirdly, I miss when I had a spark in my eye

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a few great films that are free on the internet archive

in decent quality too!

here is the archive collection of these films so you can favorite on there/save if desired.

links below

black girl (1966) dir. ousmane sembene

the battle of algiers (1966) dir. gillo pontecorvo

paris, texas (1984) dir. wim wenders

desert hearts (1985) dir. donna deitch

harold and maude (1973) dir. hal ashby

los olvidados (1952) dir. luis bunuel

walkabout (1971) dir. nicolas roag

rope (1948) dir alfred hitchcock

freaks (1932) dir. tod browning

frankenstein (1931) dir. james whale

sunset boulevard (1950) dir billy wilder

fantastic planet (1973) dir. rené laloux

jeanne dielman (1975) dir. chantal akerman

the color of pomegranates (1969) dir. sergei parajanov

all about eve (1950) dir. joseph l. mankiewicz

gilda (1946) dir. charles vidor

the night of the hunter (1950) dir. charles laughton

the invisible man (1931) dir. james whale

COLLECTION of georges méliès shorts

rebecca (1940) dir. alfred hitchcock

brief encounter (1946) dir. david lean

to be or not to be (1942) dir. ernst lubitsch

a place in the sun (1951) dir george stevens

eyes without a face (1960) dir. georges franju

double indeminity (1944) dir. billy wilder

wild strawberries (1957) dir. ingmar bergman

shame (1968) dir. ingmar bergman

through a glass darkly (1961) dir. ingmar bergman

persona (1961) dir. ingmar bergman

winter light (1963) dir. ingmar bergman

the ascent (1977) dir. larisa shepitko

the devil, probably (1977) dir. robert bresson

cleo from 5 to 7 (1962) dir. agnes varda

alien (1979) dir. ridley scott + its sequels

after hours (1985) dir. martin scorsese

halloween (1978) dir. john carpenter

the watermelon woman (1996) dir. cheryl dune

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editing pink flamingos

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Dear video essay creators. A video analysis is when you analyze a piece of media. No no look at me. A summary, no matter how thorough, is not an analysis. An analysis requires you to draw conclusions about the media such as authorial intent, real-world parallels, discussion about themes/worldbuilding/character motivation, and so much more. You have to stop summarizing something and saying that’s analysis. The Gaylors are doing more critical analysis than you. Is that who you want to lose to? The gaylors?

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One of the most fascinating people I ever met was someone who was in a screenwriting class with me. He was the only one in the class who got into writing in order to work in that most vibrant and story-centric of genres, pornography

He got up in front of class and confessed to his every psychosexual hangup. See, he became "fascinated" with porn ever since he stayed home from school one day when he was younger and saw the horny part of Cinemax. But according to him, "I could never get involved in it myself due to the performer's filthy natures". He wanted to be a writer because he hated everyone involved in porn and thought they were filthy, degenerate sluts, but by god he wanted to be the one telling them what filth to do

What was his dream project? Well, he wanted to make the first million dollar action porno. It would be an action piece starring a secret agent who was half Italian, half French, half Greek, all action, all sex. It would be like a James Bond movie but you actually get to see them bone. It was a million dollar movie that would absolutely take a lot more than one million to make

He described the central setpiece of his film: the hero is fighting a man on a train when - oh no! - the train derails! Just before entering the tunnel! And it explodes early! Luckily, the hero escapes. It's not the hero's fault that the train derailed and exploded before it entered the tunnel.

Sadly, I think he dropped the class. So now we'll never get to see more of his slut-shaming million dollar psychosexual confession

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when you grew up as a lonely uncool girl it will never stop haunting you by the way. you will meet a cool person at a bar or the train station or at a friend's party and you can wear your most stylish outfit and striking eye makeup and you will swear that they can see through all of the facade and see the lonely terribly insecure teenage girl who desperately wants to connect and you will swear that they know that there is like an insurmountable gap between you. this will happen forever

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Here are curated letterboxd film lists that are relevant to my interests and maybe other's

Industrial Films For Industrial People

Queering Giallo

The Degenerates: Horror Movies by Gay Directors

Movies on rarefilmm.com + rarefilmm.com

Pornography, erotism and experimentation

Gay Adult Films and Videos on Letterboxd

PURE SLEAZE: The Dirty, The Sweaty, and The Nasty

clownin’ around (circus/clown/carnival/amusement park)

Puppet Movies (That Aren’t The Muppets)

High concept 90s esoterica

Cybertronic Movies: Techsploitation Cinema

latexxx (latex/leather/rubber)

Sex Horror for Perverts

Horror Comedy, Horror Parody, Horror Pastiche

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On porn sites searching up “character study” “ambiguity” “single take”

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I still need to know what happened here. what was the intent. what was the endgame. why did he lean in like that. WHY DID THEY BOTH LEAN IN LIKE THAT. there's something so deeply sinister about them oh my god get your fucking brokeback mountain ass on and leave me alone

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cinephile? yeah i'd fuck a movie

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Chappell Roan from 2022 lostlandcollections.