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This is my favorite song on the soundtrack but thereâs a lot of good stuff on there. Another highlight is Chiyokoâs theme. I am also putting recs inside recs and have to recommend if you like this OST you have to check out Susumu Hirasawaâs album âTechnique of Reliefâ which is the English translation of the title. You should actually just listen to all of his music. He was also in this amazing synth rock band in the late 70s/early 80s called P-Model. I should have just recommended Susumu Hirasawa in general but I am going to just let this all stay.
Oct 15, 2024
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i don't live in england and i never have. but when i go to visit family i will find an excuse to be at an everyman it is maybe the fanciest cinema i've ever been to and the experience i had when i saw all of us strangers there fundamentally changed me
the only thing i don't rate is the 30 minutes of adverts
Dec 23, 2024
I haven't been in NYC for that long but I've found that the well for film in NYC is pretty deep and you can really find anything you are looking for on a given night. Obscure, Foreign, Indie, Cult Classic, whatever.
Screen Slate is a good resource to find whats playing where all around the city.
I would also suggest following a lot of the theaters on ig and they will have posts about showings that might pique your interest.
Spectacle and Film Noir are pretty cool screening rooms in BK that are pretty low key and DIY if you are looking for an interesting night out.
Finally, getting a membership to metrograph, ifc or film forum is a good option if you go to one of them and like it. Reduced prices go along way if you are going to a theater pretty frequently.
Apr 22, 2024
Great movie to kick off the new year, on at 9 PM on the 31st at the Studio Galande cinema in the 5th arrondissement, lots of fun and probably very nice people to meet. Come dressed up for extra fun.
As a bonus, I believe it's the only theatre in the world that's been showing the movie weekly with actors since it first came out in 1975, so that's pretty cool !
Dec 27, 2024
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I donât like to read and I accept that. But if you have ADHD or think you could have it, I prescribe this to you!!! My therapist put me on to this book a few years ago during lockdown. My procrastination & inability to motivate myself to finish the simplest tasks had become debilitating. I felt petrified in life, depressed, stuck in a sludge, and all that jazz. (lockdown probably had a wittle bit to do with it). Knowing that I am unable to finish every book, my therapist recommended the audiobook version of âAHDH 2.0â. The authors are both doctors who also have ADHD and they really understand their demo. Itâs an extremely quick, easy listen, and left me feeling scarily encouraged and hopeful. Put it on in the background while youâre drafting an apology email for missing a deadline and simultaneously masturbating at your standing desk that was supposed to change everything!
Oct 15, 2024
A lot of people know Satoshi Kon from his anime films âPerfect Blueâ, âPaprikaâ and perhaps his TV Series âParanoia Agentâ that got an american run on Adult Swim ( Itâs one of my favorite TV shows of all time & I also recommend it, but I donât know if itâs legal to recommend something like this within the Perfectly Imperfect Newsletter). I am a huge fan of his work, a lot of which is pretty dark, scary, challenging and so on. But if I had to pick my favorite of his, it would have to be his second movie âMillennium Actressâ which feels like his sweetest and most heartfelt work. Itâs a super surreal, dreamy, gorgeous movie. Especially insane how small the budget was for an anime feature, and his last movie to use actual cel animation before going digital. It also has my favorite original soundtrack from any movie, composed by Susumu Hirasawa, who went on to do the music for Paprika and Paranoia Agent. Susumu Hirasawa is famously known for doing the theme & other music for the anime BERSERK, but is an electronic music pioneer in his own right. The soundtrack he made for Millenium Actress is so unique, beautiful, and inspired. Itâs this combination of his singing which is what I would poorly describe as gorgeous yodeling teetering into operatic howls which he digitally manipulates, pitch shifts, layers, and samples, over these electronic dance tracks which then veer into reverb-y orchestral plucking and religious choir chanting. Itâs very emotional & atmospheric and I am doing a horrible job describing it so I will just make one of the songs my next recommendation and hopefully it can be hyperlinked. The final thing Iâll say about this movie is that I showed it to a friend a few years ago and he said that âthis is not a feminist film and Iâd say it would actually pass a reverse bechdel test whatever that isâ and I completely agree. But sometimes itâs really beautiful when a woman has no other meaning in life than to find her crush! đ
Oct 15, 2024
I wouldnât say Iâm a like a mega fan of Madonna, but I am a fan in the sense her music was so ubiquitous during my youth a lot of her songs are ingrained in there. I did realize the other day I can remember the lyrics to more Madonna songs from start to finish than I can from bands I claim are my favorite bands. Iâm fake and you can come kill me in my house for that. But there is this video of her performing Ray of Light on Oprah in 1998 that is soooooo funny and truly incredible. It just is such an odd combination of things. I remember as a kid Oprah airing around 4pm when I was getting off the school bus. Iâm sure Oprah was probably filmed at like noon. Madonna comes on stage wearing a pretty normal outfit. Itâs like a black blouse with leggings and wedges? No crazy hair or makeup. I think this is shocking to me because the bubble has burst with every top 40 musician dressing all crazy now in a way thatâs oversaturated and makes dressing crazy completely normal. To see Madonna in what appears to be head-to-toe Ann Taylor Loft parent-teacher conference wear is so jarring. She literally looks like she should work in a candle store and she just walks right on stage and starts belting this 6 minute long song dancing like sheâs on meth and it shreds. An audience of women wearing primary colors and plain pastel business casual blouses are on their feet jumping and clapping the whole time. And Oprah is flatlining, her eyes rolled up in her head. At one point she starts dancing with the microphone up to her mouth as if sheâs about to sing, but never does? Cock tease! The energy is so trance-like it really feels like theyâre all about to summon something. Itâs actually shocking that Bahamut does not appear by the end of it and pull her down into the hellmouth in a burst of flames leaving behind only the foam that was spewing from all her orafices. It genuinely is such an incredible performance from Madonna, made all the weirder that itâs on day time TV and probably was taped in the late morning or early afternoon. And i feel I must mention that sheâs either 39 or 40 years old at the time and just adds to how incredible she is. Unfortunately, I look at the current day Madonna and feel a bit sad, probably in a patronizing way that you can come kill me in my house for, but this video truly reminds me that Madonna is the real deal and made me feel a lot more respect for her despite the fact I never want to meet her because she seems lizard brain mode full time. Respectfully!
Oct 15, 2024