#American Cinema

[filmaticbby]

Smooth Talk (1985) dir. Joyce Chopra

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

[neonoires]

Timothée Chalamet in Rolling Stone December 2024 photographed by Aidan Zamiri

[imanisays]

Dante Basco and Tatyana Ali in Fakin Da Funk (1997)

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

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

[hersadexistence]

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

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[blackinmotionpictures]

Love, Brooklyn (2025) dir. Rachael Abigail Holder

[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.”

[filmaticbby]

Funny Girl (1968) dir. William Wyler

[honeygleam]

flesh for frankenstein (1973) dir. paul morrissey

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[girls-cry]

Books in cinema

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Charlayne Woodard and Clifton Davis in “ Cindy” a AA retelling of Cinderella.

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[phantomladyoverparis]

Angel (1957), dir. Joseph Cornell