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PARIS IS BURNING (1990) dir. Jennie Livingston

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Rich people are naive. No resentments. No creases on them. It all gets ironed out. Money is an iron. Those creases all get smoothed out.

PARASITE (2019) dir. Bong Joon-ho

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The Lighthouse (2019) Dir: Robert Eggers

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Lady Gaga photographed by Sølve Sundsbø for Elle US Magazine (December 2019)

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BLADE RUNNER 2049 (2017) dir. Denis Villeneuve 

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Lady Gaga fotografiada por Inez & Vinoodh (2011).

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When you bring me out, can you introduce me as Joker? 

Joker (2019) dir. Todd Phillips 

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Voguing is the same thing as, like, taking two knives and cutting each other up, but through a dance form. Voguing came from shade, because it was a dance that two people did because they didn’t like each other. Instead of fighting, you would dance it out on the dance floor, and whoever did the better moves was throwing the best shade, basically.

The name was taken from the magazine “Vogue”, because some of the movements of the dance are also the same as the poses inside the magazine. The name is a statement in itself. I mean, you really wouldn’t go to a ball to do the “Mademoiselle”. No way.

Like break dancing, the dance takes from the hieroglyphics of Ancient Egypt. It also takes from some forms of gymnastics. They both strive for perfect lines in the body, awkward positions, but it goes one step further. 

It’s starting to make a name for itself, but I want it to be known worldwide, and I wanna be on top of it when it hits.

- Willi Ninja, Paris is Burning (1990) dir. Jennie Livingston

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“What, what, what, WHAT!?” the actress recalls thinking. “Because it comes out of f—king nowhere. I’m flabbergasted. Absolutely never saw that coming.” […] “I cried,” Clarke says. “And I went for a walk. I walked out of the house and took my keys and phone and walked back with blisters on my feet. I didn’t come back for five hours. I’m like, ‘How am I going to do this?’” […] “I genuinely did this, and it’s embarrassing and I’m going to admit it to you,” Clarke says. “I called my mom and—” Clarke shifts into a tearful voice to perform the conversation as she reenacts the call: “'I read the scripts and I don’t want to tell you what happens but can you just talk me off this ledge? It really messed me up.’ And then I asked my mom and brother really weird questions. They were like: ‘What are you asking us this for? What do you mean do I think Daenerys is a good person? Why are you asking us that question? Why do you care what people think of Daenerys? Are you okay?’ And I’m all: ‘I’m fine! … But is there anything Daenerys could do that would make you hate her?’” — Emilia Clarke, Entertainment Weekly

DAENERYS TARGARYEN DESERVED BETTER.

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Why is everyone so ready to think the worst is over?

Suspiria (2018) dir. Luca Guadagnino

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Amy Adams photographed by Boe Marion for So It Goes magazine, 2018

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MARINA photographed by Zoey Grossman, 2019

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I definitely wanted to do a movie that started with this sense of invasion — this sense of the fear of other, the fear of the stranger from outside, which I think is a common fear in society these days — and then sort of force the characters to realize the invaders have their faces.

I didn’t want to make just a home invasion, though I utilized that imagery. I wanted the sense of an adventure that was not necessarily a claustrophobic one — that’s a feeling that turns me off watching. I wanted to make this expansive, I wanted it to have themes of night and day.

— Jordan Peele breaks down the frightening first Us trailer

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Some wounds do not close. I have many such. One does walks around with them and sometimes one can feel them filling with blood.

The Favourite (2018) dir. Yorgos Lanthimos

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A Star Is Born (2018)

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Suspiria (2018) dir. Luca Guadagnino