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I fell in love this weekend!

With this film 🎬 “A Rainy Day in New York”

With Woody Allen’s 21st Century films, you should already know you’re not getting a tectonic shift in cinema. You’re getting Woody’s take on current cultural shifts, packaged inside his brand of filmmaking. But some films stand a part from others when the chemistry of the actors shines, the dialogue dazzles, and the overall mise en scene delights. A Rainy Day in New York has all these in spades. From the main character’s naming choice (Gatsby Welles, a pun on Jay Gatsby and Orson Welles), to the disgruntled film director named playfully after Roman Polanski, to the sultry soundtrack, all the New York City on location shooting, and just a lovely stroll with these conflicted characters riffing on themes of love, attraction, affairs, ambition, NY socialites, art over commerce, longing, and self-discovery.

#woody allen #selena gomez #timothée chamalet #elle fanning #liev schreiber #romantic film #New York film #chet baker #frank sinatra #cole porter #Youtube

So do we think Ophelia was pregnant or not?

She uses the herb rue (an abortifacient), and shakespeare includes puns like “conceive” “pregnant”

#hamlet #shakespeare #ophelia

From Shakespeare to Tennyson, if you don’t know what a word means, it’s prob a species of bird.

#poetry #shakespeare #alfred tennyson #victorian #renassaince #elizabethan #samuel taylor coleridge #william blake #percy shelley #lord byron #ben jonson

When two people who clung to self-reliance discover a love that feels obsessive, their emotional journies are as epic as the desert in total. The thrill. The fear. The sacrifices.

#the english patient #90s films #ralph fiennes #kristin scott thomas #academy awards #epic film #love story #romantic film

Drink me up with your eyes,

And I will pledge with mine;

Or leave a kiss in the cup,

And I’ll not look for wine.

My thirst for you rises from my soul,

The drink must be divine;

Even if I could sip ambrosia with the Gods,

I would not leave your side.

I sent you flowers recently,

Not to honor you,

But to give them hope for living,

And not withering.

But you only breathed on them,

And sent them back to me.

As they grow and blossom and bloom,

They don’t smell like flowers,

But only of you.

#ben jonson #poetry #translation

Asks the question Sylvia Plath once asked: was my lover real or simply imagined?

#hungary #budapest #lincoln center #virtual cinema #lili horvat #natasa stork #viktor bodo #film noir #psychological #sylvia plath

How criminally underrated is Reality Bites?!?!

One of my favorite films!

What most critics miss is that JUST LIKE the affected spoiled-emotionally troubled Gen Xers, the film TRIES to be iconoclastic, brash and poignant while saturating itself in neatly resolved relationship tropes.

The 90s pre- and actual teens found emotional cover in assuming, fatuously, their dysfunction was just as rooted in socio-political culture as the 70s teens, all while the “give your kids everything” parenting model added to the pointed confusion and guilt trip.

This movie totally gets the wayward MTV-cum-Larry Clark generation that treated their need for their pain to be taken seriously alongside their expectations of happy endings as cake they could have AND eat too.

#ethan hawke #winona ryder #reality bites #90s films #generation x #lisa loeb

What does Titanic and The Iliad have in common?

Both audiences knew the ending. Pre-destination was understood. The allure was discovering more about the heroes and villains, what their hopes and plans were, how they reacted to preset circumstances, and the catharsis of being reminded that some things are out of our control.

#titanic #the iliad #brad pitt #leonardo dicaprio #homeric epic #literature

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#the english patient #kristen scott thomas #romance #books to film #Youtube

King Henry IV: “For all my reign hath been but as a scene”

Basically, my reign has been like a play.

Interesting use of self-consciousness by Shakespeare. A character in a play calls attention to the topic of plays as a metaphor for his life. Tropes of postmodernity seem to have been prevalent in Shakespeare.

#shakespeare #henry iv #prince hal #postmodern #critical analysis #falstaff #theatre

Ever wonder about the ending of My Own Private Idaho? The movie famously includes Henry IV intertextuality, and lots of asides about roads. The ending includes the observation that “this road” looks like a messed up smiley face. During the time of Shakespeare a “road” was a whore. The characters of Idaho are of course male prostitutes, and when Scott says this road looks like a fucked up smiley face, I now can interpret that to mean his experiences as a whore. Took me 23 years to make the connection now that I’m reading Henry IV part 2.