#honeyland

[badela]

Honeyland (2019)

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Directors: Tamara Kotevska, Ljubomir Stefanov

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Cinematography: Fejmi Daut, Samir Ljuma

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New Xbox Games for August 5th to August 9th 2024

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Honeyland (2019) ★★★★★☆☆☆☆☆

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ハニーランド　永遠の谷 Honeyland

Directed by Ljubomir Stefanov, Tamara Kotevska 2019 North Macedonia

[welldonna]

Y'all, I went to Texas! No one warned me about the way Texans drive. Glad to be back home again in NC safe and sound, and where normal people drive!

It was my sister's friend's birthday weekend and I tagged along. I also wanted to meet one of my Black Queer friends off the internet (and went to my Internet nephew/their son's birthday party) + Went to a music festival and saw Coco Jones (she was so beautiful and pretty) and Lucky Daye (fine ass 😍).

I can't believe my life!

[tundrakatiebean]

Me: I will watch this very awarded and critically acclaimed documentary

Me: . . . I did not enjoy that but I can see why it got awards

[whoahoney]

Alright yall, Deftones/septum piercing boy turned into a ghost, may he rest in peace 💀 but never fear….

the Pizza Guy is here. 😏👀

That’s right, a new white boy of the month in Honeyland but that’s okay, I’ve decided to award him white boy of the month, every month for the rest of the year (at least) because he’s my BOYFRIEND!

he actually asked me and everything, like whaaaat?

I love the story of how we met so much so imma write it out a little bit before I toy with turning it into an Eddie fic like I did with the chilis waiter 💀🫶🏻

Read on if you’re interested in my weird love life, it’s appreciated but never required!

TW: pregnancy sickness, crush on someone other than your shitty ass husband (it’s okay we’re divorced now 🥳😂)

Basically back in 2021, I was heavily pregnant with my second child and alllllways craving pizza. I already order dominos often enough they know my name and order when I come in, but it was much more often than normal while I was growing a human 😂

One day, I go to pick up my order at the dominos hot spot in town and there is a handsome Covid-masked boy there waiting for me.

I’d never seen him before so I knew he was new. I got shy and just accepted the pizza, trying to get back into my car as quickly as possible. But then he gave me the loveliest smile and wished me a good day and I thought about it a smidge longer than a married woman should.

The next time I saw him, he gave me tons of paper plates and napkins and full shakers of pepper and Parmesan, and that became a regular occurrence I didn’t think too much of. (Turns out he was STEALING FROM WORK)

The next time, he asked me about how I was feeling, about my baby, and what his name was going to be.

And then the next time, I was late picking up my order, and it’s protocol to call the customer in that instance, so he calls me and asks if I’m okay. Truth be told, I wasn’t 💀 I had BARFED all over myself (cause pregnant) as I was driving over there. I was so upset, clamoring around my car searching for an old hoodie to pull on, but I couldn’t find anything 🥲

Obviously I wasn’t going to tell him all that, so I told him I’d be there momentarily, that I had just been sick.

He offers to drive it to me, free of charge, but I was almost there anyway.

He didn’t even acknowledge the puke on my shirt and gave me the same smile he always did (that I couldn’t see cause of the mask lmao) and told me to be careful going home.

lemme tell you that when I got back, I had a text from an unknown number asking if I got home okay 🥺 my friend was utterly convinced this dude had the hots for me but I was married and pregnant so I had a hard time hoppin on that bandwagon, “it’s not like anything’s going to happen anyway”

I’d say a month after that, I stopped seeing him and assumed he’d moved onto bigger and better things than dominos.

Cut to January 2024, I’m swiping on bumble, minding my business and I see the cutest guy in a Metallica shirt eating noodles straight from the pot over the sink. I was already set on swiping right, but then I looked further at his profile and lo and behold, a selfie in a familiar domino’s uniform!! It had to be him.

I swipe right, we MATCH, I confirm it’s him, he REMEMBERS ME, and we plan a date.

He suggested that we meet at our “old spot” and he’d bring dinner.

And what does he bring??

A dominos pizza and a dozen red roses. 🥺

Turns out my friend was right, he confirmed that he had a “huge little crush” on me and that he’d bargain with the other drivers to get my order if it wasn’t his to take 😭 he’d give them the tips I’d give him if he ever had to convince someone to switch with him 🥲

I’ve dated some very kind and respectful people since July 2023 but this guy blows them all out of the water 😭

He’s so communicative, his boundaries and emotional intelligence are unmatched, we have the same taste in music, his love languages are the same as mine, he’s also a single father (and absolutely rocks it), we share the same values, every day he’s surprising me with some lore of his, or his kindness, or thoughtful nature 🥺

he plans every date, sends me his work schedule so I know when I can come in for a surprise visit if I want to, he brings me snacks, pays for and pumps my gas, opens every door, and won’t even let me lift a finger in my own house!!! All without me asking.

And don’t get me started on the sex bro… I— I can’t. 🥲🫠😮‍💨

If you read this far, I love you, I hope you’re doing well, I miss my tumblr/eddie hyper fixation so much, but I feel it coming back 🤍 I hope to finish our beloved stories and give them all the endings they/we deserve 😌🥰

Xx

Honey

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Miguel Honeyland Fest 2023

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[teanicolae]

de paris avec l'amour

#1: dreamlike to experience l’atelier des lumières! they are showcasing three exhibitions at the moment: Marc Chagall’s “paris-new york”; Paul Klee’s “peindre la musique”; “convergence: sounds and colours” by cityshake.

🌌 Chagall’s wondrous, russian folklore-inspired paintings are displayed on tunes of mostly classical music. the explosion of melded sound-vision coaxed tears, thrill and joy out of me, and it was fascinating to observe how the music manipulated my emotions – and yes, i chose this word very pointedly! by ‘manipulation’ i mean that my processing of the imagery, in the split-second that rested between the display of the paintings and the advent of the music, was often overturned by the music; an image of a woman with braided hair that i first registered as serene rendered me tearful when wrenching music sank in.

🎇 in the second exhibition, which stemmed from the premise of painting the music, the dynamic was overturned; it was the paintings that conferred meaning to the music!

🎆 as for the third exhibition, it was an exploration of synaesthesia (once upon a time, i wrote an article on this!) which invites you to listen to the colours! 🤍 fills one to the core.

the interplay of the senses 😍 would highly recommend a visit here to anyone who finds themselves in paris or in a city where branches of the atelier exist! 🌌

#2: i haven’t visited paris in many years & i’ve been remarking how fresh everything feels, as if i’m here for the very first time! then again, i was thinking to myself that even though the obvious cause-effect correlation would be having not been here in long, still, every place & experience could be fresh & new if i don’t fall in my modus operandi complacency of having been there before, having already seen etc!

there was a beautiful share i saw on here a few weeks ago, about a professor telling his students that even going to the supermarket, if experienced fully “without the goggles of habit and categories”, would make one “go crazy with pure sense and joy”. credit for this: alice in honeyland 🤍

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Movies I watched this Week #118 (Year 3/Week 14):

My 3rd re-watch of Lawrence of Arabia, David Lean’s magnificent, all-male epic and the movie that Steven Spielberg had seen more than any other film. It’s so grand that the nearly 4 hours spectacle opens with 4+ minutes of orchestral music prelude on a dark screen and includes an ‘intermission’.

It got me to realize that most all movies (maybe because of the economics of movie-financing) always show deference to authority; The influences they represent, whether government, military, religion, civil powers, or simply ‘the big man’, the rulers are always accepted as masters.

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The Garden of Words, my second anime ever, and coincidentally also my second by Makoto Shinkai (After ‘Your name’). A melancholy and poetic story about a 15-year-old aspiring shoe-maker student who keeps meeting a woman skipping work on a park bench at the beautiful Shinjuku Gyo-en gardens during the raining season. Gorgeous visuals of nature and rain.

The Wikipedia page for this film is nearly as long as the one for Obama!

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3 more terrific debut films by young female directors:

🍿 For some unclear reasons, I’ve seen a large number of Parisian high school dramas recently. Spring blossom is one of the best. A gentle drama of a shy 16 year old girl who falls in love with a 35 man she sees outside a local theater.

And like Quinn Shephard’s ‘Blame’, it’s twice as impressive, because it was written by the talented Suzanne Lindon when she was only 15, and she directed it and starred in it before she was 20. Je l'adore! 8/10.

🍿 The Hive, my first film from Kosovo. Another on my growing list of “Debut films directed by female filmmakers”. The “first film in Sundance Festival history to win all three main awards – the Grand Jury Prize, the Audience Award and the Directing Award – in the World Cinema Dramatic Competition”. Based on a true story, it tells simply but touchingly about a war widow who started a small business, making homemade Ajvar and empowering the women in her village. Highly recommended. 100% on Rotten Tomatoes. And of course, reminiscent of the Macedonian documentary ‘Honeyland’. 8/10.

🍿 Rye Lane, a cute new rom-com about two young black South London strangers who meet at random and spend the day getting to know each other. Fresh and original.

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My 7th by Finnish master Aki Kaurismäki. Every time I watch another of his movies, I get elated. There is nobody who make movies like him, he’s one of a kind. The man without a past, the second of his “Losers” trilogy, opens with a cinematic gut pinch and doesn’t let go until the end. My favorite of all his films so far?...

The trailer. 9/10.

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The Hollywood Reporter Critics put out a new list of their ‘50 best films of the first 21 years of the 21st century’, and I decided to go through the ones I haven’t seen yet.

First was Far from Heaven, my 4th tragedy by Todd Haynes. A precursor to his masterful ‘Carol’, this is another Douglas Sirk-inspired melodrama of oppression and unrequited desire in middle class America of the mid 50′s. Drenched in luminous colors over all (except of the scenes of illicit dangers, in the gay bar and black cafe), and accompanied by another expansive score, it’s a devastating tale of the price of conformity. The husband who can’t control his homosexual urges, and the wife who falls for a black gardener are doomed, and their lives will be shattered. The poor players had simply nowhere to go. 8/10.

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‘Today I learned’ about ‘Elite Panic’ describing the “behavior of members of the elite during disaster events, typically characterized by a fear of civil disorder” and the shifting of focus away from disaster relief towards implementing measures of "command and control".

New order, my third memorable film by Mexican auteur Michel Franco (after the terrific ‘Sundown’ and the disturbing ‘April’s daughter’) describes a society collapsing, the exact moment when the shit finally hits the fan, when the riots on the TV screen cross over and knock on your door. It’s a brutal and unforgiving story, ugly, violent and without any sentimental sympathy. Shocking anarchy escalates quickly when the pressure gets too much.

When the revolution comes down, it will bring some serious bloodshed. No wonder the greatest boogieman the ruling class warns us all about is “Class Warfare”. The most distressing film of the week - 9/10!

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To catch a thief, Hitchock’s romantic thriller. The Good: Grace Kelly on the French Riviera, the ultimate glamour of the lifestyles of the rich and famous at Cannes and Nice, Hitchcock’s first (?) use of helicopter shots and modern car chases. The Bad: The genre roles & sexual politics of the husband-seeking unmarried young woman would not fly today.

I watched it solely because of this clip.

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2 with Brigitte Fossey (of ‘Jeux interdits’):

🍿 “...The square is mine!...”

I forgot that she played the grown-up Elena in Cinema Paradiso, one of Ennio Morricone’s most popular movies. And yes, without his magnificent score, the 3-hour long nostalgic trip to the heart of cinema, would not be half as enjoyable.

The question that was not well-answered was: Why did he not bother to visit his mother for 30 year? (Re-watch).

🍿 The happy road, a mediocre 1957 children comedy about 10 year old American boy and French girl, who escape from a Swiss boarding school, and hitchhike to Paris. Directed by and starring Gene Kelly, falling for the girl’s mother. 3/10.

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Inside, the new Willem Defoe survival thriller. He’s an art thief who breaks into a hi-end NYC penthouse of a wealthy art collector, intending to steal 3 paintings by Egon Schiele. But the security system traps him inside, and he’s unable to escape for many months. Captivating hi-concept and one-trick film, but a bit too long. 6/10.

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...”Never forget how much he loved you, Kubo”...

After being seriously obsessed with everything ‘Coraline’ all of last year, Adora moved on to Laika Studio’s next stop-motion animated story Kubo and the two strings. A Japanese-inspired action story about a one-eyed Samurai son who creates magical origami figures from his 3-stringed shamisen. But it was as if all the pretty parts were combined by an AI-engine. 4/10.

I will introduce her next to ‘The Iron Giant’, and ‘Isle of dogs’.

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First watch: The green room, one of the last few François Truffaut films I haven’t seen yet. In it, he plays a somber 1920′s journalist obsessed with death who builds a shrine to everybody he had lost. I love his human directing style, but this was a confusing mess. 2/10

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RIP, Ryuichi Sakamoto X 2:

🍿 In remembrance of his passing I started re-watching Bertolucci’s ‘The Last Emperor’, but to be honest, I got bored after 30 minutes; I blame the less than HD version of my pirated copy. So maybe I’ll try it another time.

Instead, I went back to my of favorite ‘Black Mirror' episodes, and the only one he composed the score for, Smithereens. It was directed by the same man who did my other cherished story ‘Hated in the nation’, and was also about online media frenzy that spirals out of control. This ‘Tyranny of the Screens’ parable received mixed reviews, because it wasn’t futuristic enough, but for my money it is a tense thriller on par with the best of them. 10/10.

Sakamoto’s dark score is subtle and minimal. You have to strain to notice it. Perfect!

...”This is my last day!”...

🍿 Psychedelic Afternoon, a 2013 animated short, featuring David Byrne, and released to raise money for children who survived the 2011 tsunami.

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‘Mad men’ is one of the few TV-shows I've seen, and I’ve seen it 3 or 4 times (including once last year). “Hazel” of YouTube ‘Dream Dimension Productions’ analyzes one “Perfect Scene” from Season 3 finale “Shut the door, have a seat”.

A terrific breakdown, which got me to watch it again, together with a few more.

Extra: Her ‘Netflix has a content problem’, which I also agree with, as I was attempting to avoid 90% of all their content.  

🍿   Talk to her, my 3rd unsatisfying film by Pedro Almodóvar (after ‘All about my mother’ and ‘The human voice’). A twisted story about two unappealing men who befriend each other at a clinic where they both care for comatose women. His editing choices and scattered direction, constantly focusing on unrelated detail in every scene turned me off. Some artistic perversions (like a silent film clip of a tiny man entering a giant vagina) notwithstanding. I guess I’m not a fan. 4/10.

🍿   2 more by Noah Baumbach (both with Adam Driver):

🍿 The last film I saw this week was also the best one:

I started watching the new Adam Driver dinosaur fantasy ‘65′. but it felt so stupid the moment Adam Driver opened his mouth, that I had to switch it off within 5 minutes. Instead, I turn to Marriage Story again. An absolute masterpiece, so painful and so true, for all divorced couples and parents of children of divorce. (That 10 minutes long scene at the apartment was raw! - Screenshot Above). 10/10 deservedly and without any reservations. 

(And now I must see ‘Two for the road’!)

🍿 (Actually, I ended up with his uneven While we’re young, which didn’t measure up to that. The milieu of hipster millennial poseurs and Brooklyn wannabe documentary filmmakers was uninteresting, and I also can’t stand Ben Stiller.)

Still I will look for the rest of his movies I had missed.

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(My complete movie list is here)

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THINGS TO WATCH

shows

raised by wolves 2

serial experiments lain

westworld

the expanse

love death and robots

the witcher

wheel of time

the magicians

lovecraft country

warrior nun

cyberpunk: edgerunners

altered carbon

katla

1899

cabinet of curiosities

another life

ingress

archive 81

alice in borderland

the silent sea

the witcher

the pillars of the earth

the stand

movies

womb

tàr

antlers

i confess

wakanda forever

stockholm pennsylvenia

the way back

the last temptation

big fish

tree of life

io last on earth

the perfection

don't look up

tau

spectral

raw

army of the dead

his house

a trip to infinity

honeydew

agnes of g-d

the fall

heavenly creatures

honeyland

the spirit of the beehive

across the spiderverse

f9 & fast x

anime

anemone: eureka seven hi-evolution

maquia: when the promised flower blooms

tenki no ko

gantz: o

blame!

darker than black

plastic memories

ergo proxy

guilty crown

shigatsu wa kimi no uso

ghost in the shell: stand alone complex

code geass

beastars

gurren lagann

zaregoto

nagi no askuara

takt op destiny

worldend

kagepro

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Honeyland (2019) ★★★★★★★★★☆

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The SML Podcast - Episode 980: Cat Quest!

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It's time to talk Cats and Quests as Desmond Wong of The Gentlebros joins this episode of SML!

The show kicks off with Bri Galgano, Jacob Garner, and Aki all on hand to welcome Desmond Wong of The Gentlebros to the show to chat all about their latest game Cat Quest III! We chat about the history of the series, new features for the game, future update plans for the game, and tons more! Plus find out what Desmond is playing and looking forward to and maybe even hear about some hidden secrets of the game!

After Desmond heads out, it's news of the week with the latest additions and departures for Xbox Game Pass, an official delay for Avowed, Pinball FX3 losing their Balls of Glory, Star Wars Jedi Survivor going last gen, and more! We also talk about the sad ending for Game Informer after 33 years. GameStop did them dirty for sure. Plus reviews!

0:00 - Intro/Cat Quest Interview 50:11 - News 1:14:19 - Star Wars: Bounty Hunter - Aspyr (Jacob) 1:21:15 - Cat Quest III - The Gentlebros, Kepler Interactive (Bri/Aki/Jacob) 1:32:12 - Aero the Acro-Bat - Shinyuden, SUNSOFT, Ratalaika Games (Jacob) 1:38:45 - Creatures of Ava - Inverge Studios, Chibig Studio, 11 bit studios (Aki) 1:46:42 - Honeyland - Caio Flavio, Afil Games (Jacob/Bri) 1:50:42 - I Want to Go to Mars - Bin Chicken Studios, Sometimes You (Jacob/Bri)

The show ends with a banger from Cat Quest III by composer zminusone!

2:00:14 - zminusone - Meowtallika (Cat Quest III)

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Down Under heads to the Apple

Theateroo Productions brings a new musical from Brisbane to New York. Honeyland, written by long-time collaborators Clarry Evans and Denny Lawrence, opens  October 13 at the Triad Theater.  Michelle Lemon provides the choreography, with musical direction by Claire Cooper.  Lawrence directs. It’s not just a nostalgia trip for Boomers, though it will take you back. It’s a coming of age look at a…