#Barbet Schroeder

[sundaynightfilms]

Six in Paris, 1965

[undergroundrockpress]

Klaus Grünberg & Mimsy Farmer More (Barbet Schroeder), 1969.

[melis-writes]

EDWARD FURLONG as JACOB RYAN | BEFORE AND AFTER (1996) | dir. Barbet Schroeder.

[kiki-de-la-petite-flaque]

Mickey Rourke, Faye Dunaway, director Barbet Schroeder, and Charles Bukowski

[camyfilms]

THE DARJEELING LIMITED 2007

I love the way this country smells. I'll never forget it. It's kind of spicy.

[davidhudson]

Happy 82nd, Barbet Schroeder.

[shihlun]

Jean-Daniel Pollet

- Méditerranée

1963

[angelstills]

Single White Female (1992)

[anamon-book]

判決前夜 Cinema square Magazine No.131 シネマスクエアとうきゅう 監督：バーベット・シュローダー／出演：メリル・ストリープ、リーアム・ニーソン、エドワード・ファーロング ほか

[90smovies]

[sundaynightfilms]

Six in Paris, 1965

[undergroundrockpress]

Mimsy Farmer (More - 1969)

[melis-writes]

EDWARD FURLONG as JACOB RYAN | BEFORE AND AFTER (1996) | dir. Barbet Schroeder.

[film-o-teka]

More, 1969

[moratoirenoir]

[sloshed-cinema]

Single White Female (1992)

Roommates, amirite?  Reeling from the discovery of her fiancé-to-be’s infidelity and equally terrified of living alone, Allison Jones makes the choice to sublet.  It’s an under-the-table affair, just an agreement between two people.  The off-the-record nature of this arrangement makes for some nerves as the two women try to dodge prying neighbors.  But before too long, the other aspect of this secret agreement becomes the bigger risk.  Hedra Carlson doesn’t exist on the lease agreement, but that’s not the only way she’s a phantom.  Insinuating herself into Allie and Sam’s relationship, she plays the clingy roommate while speedrunning the sociopathic playbook.  Need to throw down an anchor?  Get a puppy without the other roommate’s consent.  Upset that said puppy isn’t giving you the attention you want from it, further enflaming feelings of rejection from those around?  Kill it.  At every turn, Hedy weaves a web around those in her circle, though she’s not as charming as she seems to think she is, or wants to be.  Jennifer Jason Leigh plays the role with understated, flattened affect, a fury simmering behind her eyes even as she preys on the sympathy of Allie.  There’s a further wrinkle to Hedy’s psychosis, lingering grief over her deceased twin finding a new vessel in her jealousy about Allie’s perceived success.  Hedy makes herself over to look like this woman she views as glamorous and better, both playing on her own Freudian desires and crafting the perfect crime through her double life taking on Allie’s identity.  Perhaps most chilling about this is just how far Hedy is able to go, making bolder and bolder moves all while Allie convinces herself that it would be wrong to turn her away.

THE RULES

PICK ONE

Select either ALLIE or HEDRA and sip when their name is mentioned.

SIP

A phone rings.

Someone names a kind of room.

Graham is GAAAAAYYYY

Some defect in the apartment building.

BIG DRINK

A classic movie is on television.

Buddy is a good boye.

Allison oversleeps.