#Vive L'amour

[pierppasolini]

TSAI MING-LIANG

Vive L’Amour (1994) The River (1997) What Time Is It There? (2001) I Don’t Want to Sleep Alone (2006) Days (2020)

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Vive L'Amour '愛情萬歲' (1994) dir. Tsai Ming-Liang

commission me for a gifset to help a palestinian child get medical care!

[cinematicjourney]

Vive L'Amour (1994) | dir. Tsai Ming-liang

[beingharsh]

Vive L'Amour (1994), dir. Tsai Ming-Liang / The Wayward Cloud (2005), dir. Tsai Ming-liang

[reflections-in-a-critical-eye]

top ten first watches of 2023?

I assume you mean films, right? Anyway, top 10 in no particular order.

Crash was a long time coming, but it took a podcast I used to listen to weekly to finally get to this Cronenberg classic. Bodily modifications? Violent eroticism? Body as a machine? Death & eroticism? It has it all and much more.

For those of you in your 20s and 30s (or even older) who feel alienated in the urban landscape, surrounded by crowds whilst feeling lonely and yearning for any type of human connection, this film is for you.

It's no secret that Brian de Palma wanted to be Hitchcock since he was a baby (I assume, but it sure does look so). You can see it in so many movies of his and Body Double is a perfect example. It even has the misogyny down to a T. But it's also really good and I'm a fan of voyeurism in cinema (from a critical position mostly). This is like Rear Window and Vertigo mashed together, but with 80s hair.

Now this was probably the highlight for me this year. Editor by day, sex worker by night, Kathleen Turner is a force in this film, alongside Anthony Perkins, the perverted priest. But if that is not enough to do the trick, the cinematography and that anal sex scene might do the trick 😉

Who knew Joan Crawford had such a big issue with wire hangers? Not me, but I sure found out in that crazy scene that has one of the most memorable meltdowns in cinema. Every shot of Faye Dunaway screams "I want that Oscar, god damn it!"

Fedora is the late 70s version of Sunset Boulevard and it has the same director. Not as good as that classic, but my god, the clothes! I'd watch it again just for the clothes, particularly that white suit Fedora is wearing in the garden of her villa when she receives that honorary Oscar.

I don't think there's any Paul Schrader film that I didn't like. It wouldn't make sense to call him underrated, but he's better than others from that 1970s gang (cough *de Palma* cough). In Hardcore, a father finds out his daughter went to Los Angeles and started acting in porn. He gets the confirmation when he actually sees her in one film in some shady movie theater. It's a weird and very uncomfortable scene and by comparison, not much, knowing how it will unfold later.

Of course Madonna is always in control of her image and what she allows to be seen or how she comes across. But that doesn't mean there's nothing genuine there, on the contrary. And the camera captures that. The backstage, the everyday conversations, the relationship with the dancers. Real people with real emotions and the more darker parts are allowed to slip in through the cracks. On top of that, it has footage from her tour in 90-91, a reminder of how Madonna is one of the best performers out there, making me wish there'd be a time machine so I can see her live during that time.

For anyone who is a fan of Sex and The City, how about a late 1930s version? Fast pace dialogue, outfits to die for and a cast made almost entirely of women.

The second Cronenberg on the 2023 list. I watched M. Butterfly after seeing Madame Butterfly at the opera. The film is slightly different and it deals with some of my favorite themes in fiction and media lately: gender identities, criticism of colonialism, orientalist fantasies that obscure realities and so much more.

[diariopagao]

Vive L'Amour Tsai Ming-Liang

[thewomanwithmissingfingers]

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Vive L'amour (1994) dir. Tsai Ming-liang

[elpuppies]

after all these years

[mtonino]

Vive L'Amour (1994) Tsai Ming-liang

[pierppasolini]

Vive L’Amour (1994) // dir. Tsai Ming-liang

[productiondesign]

My favorite scene in Vive L’Amour (1994) • Tsai Ming-liang

[kaydrencriesss]

one thing i love about how the tropical malady (2004) cast was chosen was for the fact how bunlop lomnoi really really resembles lee kang-sheng, like i really see it, like joe really wanted to be channel his tsai ming-liang energy, yup south east asian gay film kings actually

[beingharsh]

Vive L'Amour (1994), dir. Tsai Ming-Liang

[reflections-in-a-critical-eye]

So happy to have you back here 💛 hopefully no more annoying and stupid asks this time

I saw you reblogged a post about my own private idaho that movie left me with so much sorrow river phoenix was fantastic do you know any similar movies?

Hey anon, I'm happy to be back too!

I have two recommendations which might not be obviously connected, but I was thinking of rather major themes. Like loneliness, alienation, the need for connection and the inevitable failure at doing that, sometimes through self harm or addiction. You might not get one hint at them being similar to My Own Private Idaho, but you might discover something worth seeing anyway.

[unemployedletterboxd]

"Our society is all messed up, right?"

Vive l'amour (Tsai Ming-Liang, 1994)