#American Cinema

[neonoires]

Timothée Chalamet in Rolling Stone December 2024 photographed by Aidan Zamiri

[honeygleam]

cheryl dunye and guinevere turner as cheryl and diana in the watermelon woman (1996) dir. cheryl dunye

[filmaticbby]

Bones and All (2022) dir. Luca Guadagnino

[sometimesigif]

Paul Bettany as Geoffrey Chaucer A Knight's Tale (2001) dir. Brian Helgeland

[phantomladyoverparis]

Mechanics of Love (1955), dir. Willard Maas & Ben Moore

[habitual-sadness]

世の中は―地獄の上の―花見かな In this world―We walk on the roof of hell―Gazing at flowers ―Kobayashi Issa

Mothlight, Stan Brakhage, 1962

[exhaustedeyess]

[firelise]

Alfre Woodard on Crooklyn (1994) for R29:

“To my knowledge, we hadn’t seen a Black family that was just presented as we are in life, as human beings,” Woodard said. “I get told in Belgium by white Belgians ‘I love Crooklyn, it reminds me of growing up.’ Which is what happens when you tell a story from a specific point of view, you don’t have to mention race. You didn’t get up this morning like ‘I’m a black woman that wants a cup of coffee.’ You just want a cup of coffee. It was us as we are. Just us being fabulous, complex, funny, delightful, and making ends meet. And seeing, even within that story, that we’re not monolithic...The specificity is what makes it universal. Diversity is not the point; showing reality is the point.”

[ahjong]

Desert (1976) dir. Stan Brakhage

[blackinmotionpictures]

KiKi Layne as Dandelion in DANDELION (2024).

[lforlimbo]

[honeygleam]

flesh for frankenstein (1973) dir. paul morrissey

[filmaticbby]

Eyes Wide Shut (1999) dir. Stanley Kubrick

[petitemaman2021]

Ayo Edebiri in The Sweet East (2023), directed by Sean Price Williams

Cinematographer: Sean Price Williams

[phantomladyoverparis]

A Dream Is What You Wake Up From (1978), dir. Larry Bullard & Carolyn Y. Johnson

[celluloidrainbow]

BIG EDEN (2000) dir. Thomas Bezucha Henry Hart, a successful New York Artist, returns to the town of his childhood to care for the ailing grandfather who raised him. Back in tiny and quaint Big Eden, Henry must come to terms with his relationship to Dean Stewart, his best friend from high School, as well as the object of his unrequited love. All these years Henry has been pining for a dream image of Dean from back then. This is also the story of Pike Dexter, the shy, unassuming owner of the town's general store, who is as surprised as anyone to find himself falling in love with Henry. The people of Big Eden conspire and attempt to bring Henry and Pike together. (link in title)