guillermo del toro quest

🥀🖤 a sideblog that's just for film 🖤🥀 (for now)

[mediademon]

Patty McCormack as Rhoda Penmark in The Bad Seed (1956)

What will you give me for a basket of kisses?

[grapeearrings]

[memoriastoica]

Dusk in True Stories (1986)

[148km]

Hello, Dolly! (1969) dir Gene Kelly

[guillermodeltoroquest]

if you want a dance spectacle you can't go wrong with Gene Kelly

[rhodeys]

I don't have that many close female friendships, and book clubs are the worst. So I just thought this could be something fun to share.

OCEAN'S 8 (2018) dir. Gary Ross

[sophsun1]

The Birdcage (1996) dir. Mike Nichols

[summertimenoir]

Marilyn Monroe in Some Like it Hot (1959)

[carriefisher]

BAILEY’S 3K CELEBRATION —⏳+ christine for @six-demon-bag

“Either you’re dumber than you look, or you don’t know your friend very well. He had the same look in his eye that my brother always had. Probably the only thing my brother ever loved in his whole rotten life was that car. No shitter ever came between him and Christine, if they did… watch out! He had a five-year-old daughter choke to death in her… he wouldn’t get rid of her. He just rode around with the radio blaring, not a care in the world except for Christine." — Christine (1983) dir. John Carpenter

[wulfhalls]

“Would that it were so simple.”

Hail, Caesar! (2016) dir. Joel & Ethan Coen

[vampirecorleone]

"You spend your life getting shook you learn how to spot a shaker." | "Tonight we get to be our own gods." Bad Times at the Rl Royale (2018) dir. Drew Goddard

[dailyflicks]

WHIPLASH (2014) dir. Damien Chazelle

[rylandgraces]

Project Hail Mary (2026) dir. Phil Lord, Chris Miller Director's Commentary Notes

[blurays]

Phantom Thread 2017, dir. Paul Thomas Anderson

[guillermodeltoroquest]

rewatched la la land and had the exact same experience of going wow this isn't very good but the production aesthetics are great and the score is great and the performances generally work, it's truly the lyrics and writing where this falls flat

but extra frustrating now because it looks so much better than movie musicals i would consider to be based on stronger foundations

and it's like.... i watched The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, a musical about young lovers who are pulled apart by the circumstances of life and their dreams of the future, and i watched Forget Paris which is a romcom about love after marriage and the ways in which seperate careers can get in the way.... i do enjoy these concepts and la la land is like....

it's many crimes include writing issues but also the hilariously muddling element of it's protagonist's jazz opinions.

it's a little too cloying and shallow, on a writing level, and it's frustrating because it's so good on production levels otherwise, and the core concepts are good! but it mostly gestures at the ideas of it's struggling artist protagonists, while keeping them comfortably white and middle class and rocket them straight to success once they do their time in roles they resent. it's weirdly individualistic about their creative processes (despite the ranting about how jazz functions for example) and maybe it's just strange to me how both film and jazz are ultimately collaborative endeavours that this film takes this framing

also when i think about the idea of the love story, the events, i go wow yeah good story and then when i'm actually watching it i go oh right i like these actors individually but the chemistry and writing is not there for me in the actual film.........

[hi-heaux]

Hazel Motes x Geordie Greep anyone?

[prongcollar]

"Your patients need you."

[do-you-have-a-flag]

me watching the finale of the cook the thief his wife and her lover like