[catvcr]

Takeshi Kitano portraits by Kazumi Kurigami

[thisautistic]

[ilyasmole]

"I like the animal thing when you're acting, to use a bit of animal stuff."

[gael-garcia]

Lady Snowblood (1973, Toshiya Fujita)

[petiteclover]

JEFF BUCKLEY photographed by Ken Hinchey in Philadelphia, 1994.

[lionfloss]

'Under Monet's Pond' by Eiko Jones

[hayaomiyazaki]

Konbini • Luca Guadagnino est dans le Video Club

[transperceneige]

John Singer Sargent expo @ Musée d'Orsay, Paris, 2025

[sisterreisaid]

"If rest becomes a form of recovery from work, as is the case today, it loses its specific ontological value. It no longer represents an independent, higher form of existence and degenerates into a derivative of work. Today's compulsion of production perpetuates work and thus eliminates that sacred silence. Life becomes entirely profane, desecrated."

—Han Byung-Chul, The Disappearance of Rituals

[they-bite]

part of the fun of the original alien is the horror of the nostromo itself imo. it’s a cell of corporate greed ferrying narrowly-trained workers across barren space. it’s huge and yet claustrophobic, cockpits crammed with machinery giving way to yawning berths dripping chains and water. the supercomputer is named mother in a stroke of human anthropomorphization, but instead of providing comfort or protection, it’s only a courier between its creator and its wailing brood. ripley yells “mother! mother!” at a matronly-voiced computer that speaks calmly over her helplessness. the ship is full of endless details and patterns and unlabeled buttons and dials the audience can’t entirely make sense of; to do anything on the ship is a rigorous, technical process, and we must depend on the characters to know it. the internal mechanics of the ship are so alien that a literal alien can hide among the bits and bobs and not be noticed. it’s great.

[redstonedust]

the worst part about grief is that it feels like the world should be horrendously earth shatteringly changed, and to an extent it IS but its also the same. to everyone else it's just another tuesday. the world moves on. you have to go grocery shopping.

[polar01dz]

Gregg Araki

TV quotes

[splatteronmywalls]

[celluloidrainbow]

THE LIVING END (1992) dir. Gregg Araki Luke is a restless and reckless drifter and Jon is a relatively timid and pessimistic film critic. Both are gay and HIV positive. After an unconventional meeting, and after Luke kills a homophobic police officer, they go on a road trip with the motto "Fuck everything." (link in title)

[pierppasolini]

TSAI MING-LIANG

Vive L’Amour (1994) The River (1997) What Time Is It There? (2001) I Don’t Want to Sleep Alone (2006) Days (2020)

[ahneunjin]

GOODBYE, DRAGON INN 不散 (2003) dir. Tsai Ming-Liang

[pierppasolini]

The Wayward Cloud (2005) // dir. Tsai Ming-liang