#favorite films of 2019

[fukutomichi]

Killers Anonymous (2019) directed by Martin Owen Sam Hazeldine as Senator John Kyle

[manderleyfire]

– What's keeping us apart ain't even real, your daddy, his religion, it's got nothing to do with us. – It's not just his, it's mine too. I've got the same spirit in me, why don't you see that?

Alice Englert and Walton Goggins in Them That Follow (2019), dir. Dan Madison Savage & Brittany Poulton

[insomniac-lez]

fav films

[heavenlycinema]

Makeup 2019

Dir. Claire Oakley

“I’m sorry it doesn’t feel like you’re on holiday all the time.”

[everybody-dies-at-least-once]

The sorcery of Jordan Peele is such that my neighbors are listening to "Good Vibrations" and I am not thinking about the Beach Boys like a normal person...

[agincourtier]

reviews for ransom #017

TITLE: Parasite/기생충

DIRECTOR(S): Bong Joon-ho

GENRE(S): Thriller, Comedy

RATING: 10/10

REVIEW: I get it now—I finally get it after five years! This is another film where I don't know what to say; what could be left to say about this masterpiece? I think I had the average reaction to this: shock, laughter, confusion, joy, and awe. I can't precisely place when or where or why something changed in me. When this went from very good to excellent. I had to sit down for a good while afterward just to digest. And I cannot even place why. I want to rewatch it as soon as it's within reason, maybe just to check: I saw that, right? Was it really that great? I cannot place a single flaw in this film. When I left the theater and walked through the affluent neighborhood I visited to watch this, I could only think: 'Do I look like I belong here?'

[scuddish]

"That's not how this works. Okay? We don't mess with these people. We don't terrorize them. We co-exist!" "Then what's the point? What's the point if we don't make them question their sanity a little?"

I SEE YOU 2019 | dir. Adam Randall

[beepfuckingbeeprichie]

This is actually really important! Our media reflects societal values and collective cultural fears, and is a way of CHALLENGING our implicit biases (not all the time; sometimes torture porn is just torture porn). The horror especially!! Horror movies are so viscerally upsetting ON PURPOSE bc THAT’S THE POINT! TO! TEACH! A LESSON!!

Midsommar? The eventual willingness to participate in atrocities if it means acceptance!!

NOPE? The exploitation of black bodies in Hollywood!!

It?? The harmful narrative of “kids will be kids” and the depersonalization of children!!!

The Fear Street trilogy? Systemic class divide perpetrated by white men in positions of power!!!!

I think some people forget that some literature and some media is meant to be deeply uncomfortable and unsettling. It's meant to make you have a very visceral reaction to it. If you genuinely can't handle these stories then you are under no obligation to consume them but acting as if they have no purpose or as if people don't have a right to tell these stories, stories that often relate to the darkest or most disturbing parts of life, then you should do some introspection.

[qveenpoppy]

i should have given learnmore more votes, that set was great

[fukutomichi]

The Plagiarist (2019) directed by James Popplewell Sam Hazeldine as Jason Harlow For @thequeensjester ❤ Thank you for the recommendation!

[cchickki]

If you haven’t started already, start archiving/downloading everything. Save it to an external hard drive if you’re able. Collecting physical media is also a good idea, if you’re able.

Download your own/your favorite fanfics. Save as much as you can from online sources/digital libraries. Recipes, tutorials, history, LGBTQ media, etc. It has been claimed, though I can’t find the exact source if true, that some materials about the Revolutionary War were deleted from the Library of Congress.

It’s always better to be safe than sorry and save and preserve what you can. Remember that cloud storage also is not always reliable!

Library of Congress - millions of books, films and video, audio recordings, photographs, newspapers, maps, manuscripts.

Internet Archive - millions of free texts, movies, software, music, websites, and more. Has been taken offline multiple times because of cyber attacks last month, it has recently started archiving again.

Anna's Archive - 'largest truly open library in human history.’

Queer Liberation Library - queer literature and resources. Does require applying for a library membership to browse and borrow from their collection.

List of art resources - list of art resources complied on tumblr back in 2019. Not sure if all links are still operational now, but the few I clicked on seemed to work.

Alexis Amber - TikToker who is an archivist who's whole page is about archiving. She has a database extensively recording the events of Hurricane Katrina.

I'll be adding more to this list, if anyone else wants to add anything feel free!

[mismagieus]

“I will love you until the bird hates a nest and the worm hates an apple, and until the apple hates a tree and the tree hates a nest, and until a bird hates a tree and an apple hates a nest, although honestly I cannot imagine that last occurrence no matter how hard I try. I will love you as we grow older, which has just happened, and has happened again, and happened several days ago, continuously, and then several years before that, and will continue to happen as the spinning hands of every clock and the flipping pages of every calendar mark the passage of time, except for the clocks that people have forgotten to wind and the calendars that people have forgotten to place in a highly visible area. I will love you as we find ourselves farther and farther from one another, where once we were so close that we could slip the curved straw, and the long, slender spoon, between our lips and fingers respectively. I will love you until the chances of us running into one another slip from skim to zero, and until your face is fogged by distant memory, and your memory faced by distant fog, and your fog memorized by a distant face, and your distance distanced by the memory of the fog. I will love you no matter where you go and who you see, no matter where you avoid and who you don’t see, and no matter who sees you avoiding where you go. I will love you no matter what happens to you, and no matter how I discover what happens to you, and no matter what happens to me as I discover this, and no matter how I am discovered after what happens to me happens to me as I am discovering this. I will love you if you don’t marry me. I will love you if you marry someone else, and I will love you if you have a child, and I will love you if you have two children, or three children, or even more—although I personally think three is plenty—I will love you if you never marry at all, and never have children, and spend your years wishing you had married me after all.”

not to be that guy but girls will read lemony snicket’s love letter to end all love letters ONCE and then have strange ideas abt romance forever

[charonte-simi]

Yo The Platform is fucking good. I'm shocked I haven't seen anyone talk about this before

[heavenlycinema]

Little Women 2019

Dir. Greta Gerwig

“Why be ashamed of what you want.”

[wutheringheightsfilm]

because i seriously dont believe that poll had an accurate pin on what Tumblr Movies are...

[cinemaocd]

I'm ready for the Errol Morris film festival...