#film festival favorites

[3rdbogwitch2theleft]

I've heard many a tumblrina pine for "weird movies made with 4 unknown freaks" so with that in mind, here are my recommendations from the last short film festival I attended.

IMDB links present where possible. Go forth and enjoy weird good movies!

#1 "Lesbophilia" starring Vico Ortiz and Maya Nalli, directed by Michelle West. A raunchy queer comedy about commitment, felonies, FOMO, and the things we do for love.

#2 "Mélange" starring Miles Cameron & Bereket directed by Deshon Leek. A bittersweet tale of tenderness, longing, and reconnection set to a sumptuous jazz soundtrack.

#3 "Squeegee Boy" directed by Chung Wei Huang. This one has many themes so it's a bit tough to describe accurately but it's a trans coming of age story and a loving depiction of Baltimore boyhood that wrestles with identity, masculinity, cultural expectations, capitalism, and belonging. Content warning for a non-graphic scene of police violence

#4 "With You Now" directed by Jordan Imbrey a queer travel romance about belonging, grief, and healing heavily featuring roller skates, venice beach, and boardwalk snacks

#5 "Factory Drop" starring Preslav Mantchev & Annemarie Warburton directed by Petja Pulkrabek. A story of rebellion and escape told primarily through dance set against a dystopic capitalist backdrop.

#6 "Tethered" starring Una O'Brien & Maura Logue, directed by Stephen T Lally. It's got grief, it's got comets, it's got music, it's got dance, it's got fairies, it's got Ireland in the 1980s, and the fanciest nursing home I've ever seen in my life. It's about family and yes it did make me weep openly in the theatre.

Honorable mention for not my absolute favorite but one of the more inventive of the SciFi/Action Block:

#7 "Station 33" starring Ulysses E. Campbell & Madelyn Farris, directed by Joe Carabeo. A SciFi mini series that aired as a single short about a recently un-deceased woman stuck between a secretive government (?) organization and the violent, malevolent entity possessing her body. Content warning: if you're squeamish, the prosthetics get a little gross (nothing graphic just plague/zombie adjacent) .

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2023 Cannes Film Festival | Natalie Portman in a Dior ‘Junon’ recreation

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Andrew your saucy, I want to see the pics of your dick. For science.

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Door (1988)

[themakeupbrush]

2023 Cannes Fashion Favorites

After 10 days and over 150 looks, I was finally abled to narrow it down to my favorites. Keep in mind, this is completely arbitrary (and so is the order!), is totally based on personal preference, and I had to cut out a lot  of good looks to get it to a manageable number. Let me know which look was your favorite this year!

Fan Bingbing (x3)

Raline Shah (x2)

Natalie Portman

Emily Cheong

Payengxa Lor

Elle Fanning

Viola Davis

Cindy Bruna

Jasmine Tookes

Leonie Hanne

Iris Mittenaere

Mengjie Jiang

Grace Elizabeth

Caylee Cowan

Lara Leito

Diipa Büller-Khosla

Aditi Rao Hydari

Gong Jun and Zhong Chuxi (Elaine Zhong)

Cinta Laura Kiehl

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will forever remain one of my favorite pictures of tom sturridge

[giorgiawhighan]

MADISON DAVENPORT for The Cherry Picks x Herflix Cinema Sundance Studio 2024.

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Alfred Enoch attends “The Room Next Door” premiere at the 68th BFI London Film Festival

10/19/2024

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SEBASTIAN STAN attends "The Apprentice" Headline Gala during the 68th BFI London Film Festival.

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Eva FucKing Green at the Cannes Film Festival, 2024 👑

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Kunst by Lebanon Hanover 🎧

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Some of my favorite looks at the Venice Film Festival 2024.

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Elijah picked his favorite family movies for letterboxd and of course, the goonies is his top pick 😍🥰😍🥰

Frodo is always team Sam

[ritahayworrth]

anyway grace kelly in high society (1956) is actually good. while as far as she is from being a Comedienne™, she totally could have become one if she had had the chance to. like isolating her performance, her tracy is charming and funny, and i think her spin on tracy works and she is able to make it her own especially when you consider that tracy was originally written specifically with kate in mind. its just totally undermined by the fact that when unavoidably you compare the film as a whole to the 1940 version, the film is just not as good because the pacing of high society is horrible, and really just feels like they just cut and pasted the quippiest lines from the original and added some cole porter songs in between. and then of course there is bing crosby...........

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This Is What's Missing From Hollywood Movies Today - Jesse Harris

Watch the video interview on YouTube here.

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Fan Bingbing slaying all 10 days of the 2023 Cannes Film Festival

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Andrew Garfield Arrives At The San Sebastian Film Festival For "We Live In Time"

Andrew Garfield's heart-wrenching journey with 'We Live in Time' at San Sebastian Film Festival. A story of love, life, and what it means to truly live.

Link to the full story: https://www.theomenmedia.com/post/andrew-garfield-s-emotional-journey-at-san-sebastian-we-live-in-time-shines-a-light-on-love-and-l