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Lee Soo Hyuck as Park Joonggil (Tomorrow, 2022) - Devil Saint

K-DRAMA SECRET SANTA 2023 for @khaoray

happy holidays Vic, wishing you all the best for next year! 💜

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@asiandramanet january - february bingo: free choice

Lee Soo Hyuk as Park Joong Gil | Tomorrow (2022)

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What makes Poor Things so ultimately triumphant for me is the way that Bella Baxter is, despite it all, her own creation. She came into the world in an experiment that violated the autonomy of both Victoria before her and Bella herself, but she steps beyond the parameters of the experiment and into the world, to learn from it. The intentions of men may be to possess her or use her or take joy in despoiling her vulnerability, but their intentions do not determine her experiences. She decides. She explores. She looks at a world full of sorrow that could render her helpless and chooses instead to do what she can about it and then sleep easy at night. She listens to the call of her curiosity before all else, her happiness second, her compassion third. The family that she makes for herself in the end is unconventional, but it's ultimately hers and allows her to flourish as a doctor with an experimental nature and a heart of patinaed silver.

And I don't think it could be that particular kind of triumphant if the movie wasn't so fucked up.

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POOR THINGS 2023 — dir. Yorgos Lanthimos

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POOR THINGS (2023) dir. Yorgos Lanthimos

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"These two women, they’re trapped in this secret life. And being trapped in these apartments was such a great metaphor that we just mined the hell out of it. So we did all these overheads of them trapped in it, which is standard noir stuff – these overheads of “rats in a box.” People walking down a hallway? Let’s just shoot it from above so we can see the rats in the maze. They cannot break out of this thing. The wallpaper was made of squares within squares within squares. So you’re constantly – subliminally – reminded that these people are trapped in their lives."

— Bill Pope, Director of Photography

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Licorice Pizza (2021) | dir. Paul Thomas Anderson

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The Long Goodbye (1973)

A deeply cynical neo-noir shot on the less-documented streets of 1970s Los Angeles.

Director: Robert Altman

Cinematographer: Vilmos Zsigmond

Starring: Elliott Gould, Sterling Hayden, Nina Van Pallandt, Jim Bouton, Mark Rydell, and Arnold Schwarzenegger.

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THE LONG GOODBYE 1973, Dir. Robert Altman

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i'm your man

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Bound (1996)

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From The Criterion Collection's 4k Edition of Bound (1996) Featuring an Essay by McKenzie Wark

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Sony: AIBO Robot Dog in Smart Design Magazine By: Clive Grinyer (2001)

Hajime Sorayama designed one of the first models of AIBO robot dog 'ERS-110' back in 1999 for Sony.

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[ Cybergirl (2001-2002) Full Series ]

“Cybergirl is a blue superheroine Human Prototype 6000 living under the secret identity of ordinary teenage girl Ashley Campbell. In reality, she is a ‘Human Prototype 6000′ from a distant planet. Her powers include super-human strength, super-human speed, and the ability to interface directly with electronic devices and computers; she is also able to physically change her appearance between that of the blue-haired, ethereal-looking Cybergirl and the less conspicuous, mousy-haired Ashley, and can alter her clothing at will. Not only are her powers far and above that of earlier models, she has a much wider emotional scope than her predecessors. She ran away from her planet of origin in order to explore the beings she was modeled after, namely humans.”

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Gossip Girl + movie references in Blair's dreams Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961) My Fair Lady (1964) All About Eve (1950) Roman Holiday (1953) Wait Until Dark (1967) Charade (1963) Sabrina (1954)

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Audrey Hepburn and Cary Grant in CHARADE — dir. Stanley Donen, 1963

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Audrey Hepburn as Regina Lampert CHARADE (1963) dir. Stanley Donen