Double dipping recs for this question, double dipping Noah Baumbach recs but I think this is required viewing for people in their 20s who live in a city and need to change their perspective on what their life was supposed to be.
Oct 18, 2024
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* Tiny Furniture (2010), dir. Lena Dunham — Girls before Girls!!!
“After graduating from film school, Aura (Lena Dunham) returns to New York to live with her photographer mother, Siri (Laurie Simmons), and her sister, Nadine (Grace Dunham), who has just finished high school. Aura is directionless and wonders where to go next in her career and her life. She takes a job in a restaurant and tries unsuccessfully to develop relationships with men, including Keith (David Call), a chef where she works, and cult Internet star Jed (Alex Karpovsky).”
* Young Adult (2011), dir. Diablo Cody — one of my favorites…
“Mavis Gary (Charlize Theron) is a successful writer of teen literature who returns to her hometown with a dual mission: to relive her glory days and steal away her now-married high-school sweetheart (Patrick Wilson). However, her mission does not go exactly to plan, and she finds her homecoming more problematic than she expected. Instead, Mavis forms an unusual bond with a former classmate (Patton Oswalt), who has also found it difficult to move past high school.”
* Frances Ha (2012), dir. Noah Baumbach — the dinner party scene especially is so real
“A story that follows a New York woman, who doesn't really have an apartment. She apprentices for a dance company although she's not really a dancer, and throws herself headlong into her dreams.”
Oct 7, 2024
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i come back and watch this film at least once a year… i love to use Frances Ha to introduce my friends and family to “arthouse” films. it’s witty, relatable, and leaves a lot of room for personal introspection as we age and how life gets in the way of our closest relationships. also who doesn’t love greta gerwig literally just being her charming self on screen!
Sep 16, 2024
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I think this is a good cross section of my favourite films— Frances Ha and Worst Person are really incisive portraits of being in your twenties; Where The Wild Things Are is one of my favourite movies about childhood— like many Miyazaki films, it features children but isn’t a children’s movie; and Kramer Vs. Kramer is such a perfect showcase for Dustin Hoffman and Meryl Streep— all excellent feel something movies.
Apr 18, 2024
Top Recs from @buck_mcgraw
Come hang with some PI.FYI folks at Franklin Park in Crown Heights in Brooklyn on 7/19 @ 6:30. riotgrrrl and slowdazzle will be there too! Link is the Partiful invited!
Jun 22, 2024
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Its a web app that people submit 1 song per week and then everyone gets to vote on the all the different songs but their own. After all the rounds have been completed, the person with the most votes wins! Its a fun way to share music with people and get competitive. Been using this app with other online communities and friends for a few months and have really been enjoying it.
NOTE: I created a PI.FYI League where the first submission is this friday. I limited it to 25 people for now not sure if I should open that up to more but it would be pretty overwhelming to have more than 25 songs to listen and vote on. The join link is attached to this rec!
Jun 10, 2024
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riotgrrrl and I are planning on going to Jonathan Richman at the bell house 3/10 if anyone else is interested, drinks beforehand at Halyards. Hope people can make it out!
Feb 29, 2024