#jose giovanni

[frnndlcs]

Deux hommes dans la ville, José Giovanni, 1973

[streamondemand]

'Le Deuxième Souffle' – Lina Ventura takes his revenge on Criterion Channel

Jean-Pierre Melville, the dean of French crime cinema, made his name with a series of deftly-directed tales of colorful underworld characters, starting with the playfully ironic heist picture Bob le Flambeur. Le Deuxieme Souffle (France, 1966) casts a darker shadow over his sensibility. Lino Ventura, the stocky, broad-shouldered crime movie icon, stars as Gustave ‘Gu’ Minda, a loner and career…

[hystericalfeminist]

[bpmorepjo]

Rebelde (2004) based on what i remember;

Lupita deserved BETTERRRRR!!!! Her storyline with her baby sister was so overlooked and eventually ditched. I would have loved to see lupita’s mom be humbled bc she was just awful. I honestly thought they were setting a good plot with Lupita having mommy issues and her having to live as a sister/mom but no. It was all ditched . She did have a great love story with santos though (fuck Nico he was terrible to her)

Vico was a great character and the writers were scared of her potential

Giovanni was so toxic probably as much as Diego but it was overlooked due to his background

Diego was also fucked but understandably so. He is what Ch*ck (Gossip Girl) wishes he was

Miguel was the most toxic of the three ngl, at least the other two owned up to their shit while Miguel pretended he was a good person (also Mia being 15 while Miguel was 18 is actually disgusting)

Roberta has so much depth and angst which was written and portrayed so well especially her relationship with her mother.

Mia deserved better relationship wise, yes Miguel got her out of so much shit but he treated her like shit. her relationship with her dad was portrayed well tho, daddy issues but the dad does care

The addition of random ass characters with storylines was so dumb like irdgaf abt Pilar and her posse

Also Luján bothered the shit outta me, like girly, not everything is abt you

Celina deserved jail (not fr) she was so manipulative and gaslighted everyone around her. I did hate how everyone treated her, even Roberta made really distasteful comments about her body. So i guess it’s written well in that aspect that her getting bullied led to her behavior

I’m sorry to the actress but Sabrina is so unattractive and looked thirty the whole time. They mentioned how ethereal she was but she looked like any normal girl on the street lmao. She also had a hideous personality so maybe it’s that

[matthewliberatore]

june 28 stl cards vs houston astros

i hate this team.

leading 7-5 top of the 8th only to end up to lose 10-7

altuve is my worst enemy and its on sight

AND nolan arenado's day to day bc of his back so this is the worst day of my life

gallegos looking like prime team mexico gallegos blowing the save for japan to win the semis

at least donnie, goldy, and nado homered so i'm not horribly sad

mikolas did very well after he settled down after the 1st

taking stratton out with 7 pitches thrown and 10 days of rest??? to bring in GALLEGOS?? ollie u are WORSE than my worst nightmare

chip caray (cards announcer on bally sports midwest) is my fave guy ever though 🥰🥰🥰

[calciopics]

#colorwheelchallenge - Football edition

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[leporellian]

actually i'm going to talk about the met's weird thing with the rust belt more because it was definitely one of those things where a few years ago when the new met lucia was in development i was like, oh cool i wonder what they'll do with that, but now that we're here... man does it leave a bad taste in the mouth.

here's a question for you: Why Do So Many Operas Take Place In Seville?

seville is the setting for some hundreds of operas, including many of the famous ones: the barber of seville, carmen, la forza del destino, the marriage of figaro, fidelio, don giovanni (which actually might not take place in seville but given don juan stories up to them did it sticks)... the list keeps going. and there was a legitimate reason for this- for hundreds of years, seville was seen as a seedy and sexualized location where anything could happen. that exoticism carries over into the plot of many of the Seville Operas, which often feature seductions, crimes, and passion stories that fit neatly into the tales of the seedy city.

opera is about, in a lot of ways, EXOTICIZING OTHER PLACES. the spectacle of a setting was often a major part of the excitement of seeing a new opera, especially in the 19th century. but some of these places 'work' better than others, for a variety of reasons that boil down to the politics of representation and who is being who onstage.

seville works as an Exotic Opera Location Du Jour for multiple reasons. for one thing, if you notice, a lot of the seville operas take place 60-100+ years before the composition of the opera. for example, the marriage of figaro and don giovanni were composed in 1786 and 1787 respectively, and both depict 1600s seville. if you were writing a Seville Opera right now, for comparison, it would probably take place between 1890 and 1960- there's enough of a time gap that exploring the world as a more fantastical setting is easier to swallow. for another, seville is in western europe, and many of the composers depicting it were also from western europe. there is an evened playing field. (THERE IS A NOTABLE EXCEPTION about this that I WILL GET TO SOON.) finally, now that these operas are over a century old, we're even more removed from their concept of 'seville' and the 'seville' in operas has been turned into something of a convenient fantasy location in which to put an opera. it's something out of a medieval times dinner and tournament and not necessarily meant to be Actual Real Seville at all, which works fine because Seville Operas work without needing much context about the location. don jose is a soldier, you don't need to know what seville soldiers' duties were. figaro is a barber, you don't need to know what barbers in seville were like. and so on.

but there are other opera locations that don't serve this purpose as well- often nonwhite regions appropriated by white composers. the incredibly warped conceptions of egypt that show up in aida and the magic flute, the looking-glass japan of madama butterfly, the brief moment in which la fanciulla del west wherein the opera remembers the existence of native american peoples... suddenly the make-believe of exoticism goes away and is replaced by a sour feeling because in many cases these cultures could not have a say on their own depictions in the operatic world, while the western europeans featured in the operas that exoticize locations like seville or paris could.

carmen is an interesting case study in Opera Exoticism because it features a location that is fine enough to exoticize (early 1800s seville) and a titular character that is not. carmen was- and, in many productions, is still- written as romani. she embodies many negative stereotypes about the culture- she is seductive, morally ambiguous, a smuggler, a femme fatale. yet we as an audience are made to sympathize with her. she is honest about who she is, accepting of the hard truths that are given to her; she is close to her friends and her crueler moments come across as more of an ill-planned joke than a real sense of antipathy. carmen is both a product of how romani people were written by white men in her time, and progressive in that we root for her against the (white) don jose. (and it should be noted that she knows that if he kills her he will be executed for it- carmen is about a mutual kill.) a good carmen production will evaluate all of these features and include them into the work somehow; be it through metatextual commentary, or careful representation, or understanding of what the audience is seeing.

anyway, now that we've covered all that, let's go look at The Met Opera's Current Fascination With Lower Class American Communities and see what we find there.

the rust belt and the sun belt have captured the imagination of the met opera recently, as seen in their current productions of lucia di lammermoor and carmen. these settings are depicted as grimy, miserable, and joyless; women are thrown around by men, men are depicted as one-dimensional monsters that are not to be understood or seen into. the cruelty is the point- these productions do not treat lower-class americans as people to relate to or understand. the sole exceptions are lucia- who is made out to be something of an outsider, so the audience can relate to her- and carmen, who is misinterpreted into being a sad woman who just wants love (god forbid a woman have some other motivation). the racial issues that dominate the cultural conversation in america are unspoken of in these productions, even when there is an opportunity to; this becomes especially uncomfortable in carmen, where the above history of carmen as a nonwhite woman and the opera's setting on the US-Mexico border (with the soldiers cast as border agents!) goes unmentioned in the name of 'heightening the class and gender inequality'- both of which were already in the original work along with the race inequality! these productions are both directed by non-american white people. simon stone is from australia, carrie cracknell is from britain. why would they want to depict this setting? because they see it as a dark, cynical den of seediness and repressed sexuality- a world where we don't have to worry about empathy, or broader implications, because the people in these settings do not go to the met- a world where we can look on with revulsion and unease.... this crosses the line from exoticism into fetishization, in which lower class people become pawns for the met to use as set dressing.

this is especially uncomfortable because of opera's long history being seen as a 'rich people hobby'. opera is characterized as snobbish, useless, reprehensible; an art form that exists only to please the rich and the white and the male-dominated. all of which is not true! i believe to the bottom of my heart that everybody deserves a night at the opera, and that there is an opera for everyone, and everybody should feel welcome in the opera house (or other opera space du jour). and there are so many people working to change the industry from the inside, particularly the work of artists of color to broaden the opera canon and depictions of that canon as we know them. but as long as the met continues to use poor people as set dressing instead of bothering to communicate with them in a meaningful way, as long as the met sees these settings as places where brutes live instead of human beings, that stereotype of the rich man's hobby is going to continue. and the met is going to suffer for it- as i suspect that, as time goes on, the voyeuristic lens of these operas into the lives of abused lower-class women will be seen as more and more revolting.

TLDR

[lichtbrenger]

Charlie Morningstar and fixing the world <3

Anna Badkhen, to see beyond: a hoping in three pictures | Darren Aronofsky, Mother! | Jose Saramago, Cain | uncredited | Baldwin in conversation with Giovanni | Assata Shakur, Affirmations | Sung Hwa Kim (@_sunghwa_), It's not just a city | Mary Oliver, For Example

[aporeticelenchus]

While struck down by Covid (alas, alack, etc), I’ve been watching operas on my mom’s Met Opera account. So far we’ve gotten through:

Barber of Seville (2007, Peter Mattei and Joyce DiDonato):

Charming! A delight! I want to spend more time with the music later to get a better sense of individual movements. Largo Al Factotum looms large and is as good as promised. I enjoyed Peter Mattei as Figaro and Joyce DiDonato as Rosina a lot too! Bartolo’s patter songs are fun. Looking forward to hearing those again.

Marriage of Figaro (1998; Bryn Terfel and Cecilia Bartoli as Figaro and Susanna; Renee Fleming and Dwayne Croft as Countess and Count):

Finally watched a Figaro production after listening to it a million times! Also a delight! For some reason they switched out Susanna’s two solo arias, which threw me. I saw some reviewers thought Cecilia Bartoli did a little too much physical comedy, but I really liked her. Renee Fleming was a great countess; Porgi Amor is still a dead bore to me but that’s not her fault. Cherubino was adorable, but seemed to struggle a bit with Non So Piu.

This continues to be my favorite opera, and I enjoyed this as a production. I plan to watch the other two productions available on the Met on Demand later.

Don Giovanni (2000; Bryn Terfel, Renee Fleming, Solveig Kringelborn, Hei-Kyung Hong):

I’ve now spent enough time with Don Giovanni to have an opinion: it’s good, but I don’t like it nearly as much as Figaro. The plot flow and pacing frustrate me. There are some standout musical moments, but also some parts that drag (hi act 2 Donna Anna). I do love La Ci Darem and Hei-Kyung Hong’s Zerlina was charming. Finch’Han Dal Vino and Deh Vieni A La Finestra are songs I enjoy from Don G, and of course Lepprello’s little list is fun. Donna Elivra generally has good music behind her, as does Act 1 Donna Anna.

Does Don Ottavio need to be in this opera? I’m just…not sure he does….

Every time I hear the Statue sing “Don Giovaaaaaaaannnnniiii” at the end, my brain fills in “from thy dark exile thou art suuuuuuumoned”, and it took me a bit to realize I was pulling that from Iolanthe. I like to think it’s a deliberate musical homage by Sullivan.

I definitely want to watch some more stagings of Don Giovanni; overall I enjoy the opera and I can imagine it changing a lot with different directorial choices.

Die Fledermaus (1986, Kiri Te Kanawa, Judith Blegan, Tatiana Troyanos, and some men probably)

I love an operatta. I love a dumb musical comedy. I love a catchy waltz I can’t get out of my head. Two thumbs up; great use of my time listening, bad use of my time trying to follow the details of the plot because it did not really matter. Special shout out to the Overture for being a jam. It almost renders the rest of the operetta superfluous.

A+ joke having an opera singer character who won’t stop singing during the talky bits. Love that the prince is a trouser role; that helped me through some of the dumb gender stuff elsewhere.

Total blast. I plan to listen to some more recording, including two English-language adaptations. (The POP Opera project did their English-language adaptation set in 1920s Hollywood; that’s on my short list to watch) I think I like J Strauss II!

Carmen (2014; Anita Rachvelishvili and Aleksanders Antonenko)

I’ve seen Carmen before, but it’s been awhile. My mom loves Carmen; I…struggle with it. Maybe it’s just my pro-comedy bias.

The music is very good, of course; the Habañera and Toreador song are some of the most recognizable music today for a reason. The Act 1 overture is great! Short and punchy! I think the opera might be growing on me musically as I listen to it more; I’ve found the group numbers initially overwhelming, but with a little more time i can better parse the music and find parts I really like.

But anyway, I liked most of this production! I thought the Carmen was compelling, and Don Jose was a good singer (I just hate his character a lot). The set deign (1930s Spain vibes) worked for me, which was a pleasant surprise.

Going to see La Boheme tonight! Wish me luck.

[deathbypickles]

RANKING OF OPERA CHARACTER NAMES BASED ON HOW SIMILAR THEY ARE TO SPANISH WORDS FOR CUPS

3. about 99.9% of opera characters in existence

0/10 . their names are regular names and are not cup-like (carmen, jose, giovanni, tosca, angelina, etc etc etc)

2. masetto from don giovanni

close to maceta, which means pot. close, but not quite. following spanish gendering conventions, i guess masetto can be a masculine pot.

1. frasquita from carmen

frasquita meaning small bottle/pitcher. as cup-like as it gets

[mustela28nivalis]

Nyotalia, 2pNyotalia, 2p!Talia, Hetalia headcanon names

Nyo!America - Amelia

Nyo!England - Elizabeth

Nyo!France - Catherine

Nyo!Russia - Anna

Nyo!China - Chun-Yan

Nyo!Canada - Marguerite

Nyo!Italy - Alice

Nyo!Germany - Monika

Nyo!Japan - Ponko

Nyo!Prussia - Julia

Nyo!Romano - Chiara

Nyo!Spain - Carmen

Nyo!Austria - Therese

Nyo!Switzerland - Adelheid

Nyo!Denmark - Hanne

Nyo!Sweden - Astrid

Nyo!Norway - Ingrid

Nyo!Iceland - Guðrún

Nyo!Finland - Aino

2pNyo!America - Caroline

2pNyo!England - Rose

2pNyo!France - Isabelle

2pNyo!Russia - Elena

2pNyo!China - Qiuyan

2pNyo!Canada - Anne

2pNyo!Italy - Bianca

2pNyo!Germany - Luise

2pNyo!Japan - Mameko

2pNyo!Prussia - Hildegard

Seychelles - Véronique

Nyo!Seychelles - Michel

Liechtenstein - Erika

Nyo!Liechtenstein - Klaus

Monaco - Sophie

Nyo!Monaco - Jean

Belgium - Emma

Nyo!Belgium - Anri

Luxembourg - René

Netherlands - Abel

Denmark - Magnus

Norway - Sigurd

Iceland - Egill

Finland - Timo

Sweden - Bernhard

Nyo!Lithuania - Rūta

Nyo!Latvia - Laima

Nyo!Turkey - Hatice

Nyo!Greece - Daphne

Nyo!Egypt - Fatima

Portugal - Afonso

Nyo!Portugal - Maria

Nyo!Hungary - István

Slovakia - Jozef

Czech - Hedvika

Nyo!Poland - Agnieszka

2p!Poland - Jan

Scotland - Callum

Wales - Dylan

Northern Ireland - Conor

Ireland - Ronan

Cuba - Carlos

Ecuador - Jose

Moldova - Vasile

Romania - Alexandru

Bulgaria - Dimitar

Serbia - Vuk

Croatia - Stjepan

2p!Italy - Lorenzo

2p!Romano - Flavio

2p!Germany - Siegfried

2p!Japan - Kiri

Nyo!Belarus - Mikita

Ukraine - Olga

Nyo!Ukraine - Bogdan

Australia - Ralph

New Zealand - George

Nyo!New Zealand - Charlotte

Wy - Olivia

Hutt River - Paul

Molossia - Jacob

Slowjamastan - Liam

Domain - Nicholas

Stomaria - Harry

Aerica - Michael

Ladonia - Oscar

Kugelmugel - Leopold

Seborga - Marcello

2p!America - Thomas

2p!England - Edmund

2p!France - André

2p!Russia - Alexander

2p!China - An

Genoa - Giovanni

HRE - Otto

Bavaria - Karl

Saxony - Heinrich

Hessen - Wilhelm

Picardy - Gabriel

Cyprus - Giorgos

TRNC - Mustafa

Rome - Maximus

Ancient Greece - Athena

Nyo!Korea - Soo-Jin

Taiwan - Xiao-Mei

Nyo!Taiwan - Chih-Ming

Hong Kong - Ka Lung

Nyo!Hong Kong - Lan

Vietnam - Lien

Nyo!Vietnam - Tuấn

[beardedmrbean]

LAS VEGAS (KLAS) – 18 men have been arrested following a multi-agency undercover operation targeting child sex predators in North Las Vegas.

Those arrested were: Andres Herrera-Rodriguez, 34; Trevor Moody, 24; Jordan James, 22; Jose Haro Castaneda, 46; Jacob Miller, 23; Jesse Baca, 37; Marc Carofano III, 28; Giovanni Cruz, 30; Renato Moreno, 45; Arcenio Lagas Jr., 24; Jaret Ward, 26; Andrew Naranjo, 31; Jason Creech, 48; Wilberth Maldecino, 32; Roy Romero, 30; Leon Park, 40 and Manuel Cruz, 29. They all face charges for luring a minor with a computer to engage in sex.

In addition, Michael Reider, 60, was arrested and faces a charge of Attempt Sexual Assault of a Minor under 14.

It took place on Aug. 22 and 23 as part of a joint operation with Las Vegas Metro police, the FBI, North Las Vegas police, Henderson Police, Homeland Security Investigations, US Air Force Office of Special Investigation, and the Nevada Attorney General who participated in organizing and conducting the operation.

Police urge parents to discuss with their children the dangers of online chats with strangers. Parents are encouraged to routinely monitor their children’s activity on social media and other online applications to prevent them from becoming victims of child sex predators. This operation was conducted as part of the ongoing efforts to reduce violent crime and protect children in our community.

Anyone who may have been a victim of any of these subjects or has information about their crimes is urged to contact the LVMPD Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force by phone at 702-828-3111. To remain anonymous, contact Crime Stoppers by phone at 702-385-5555

[tina-aumont]

Carmen Screencaps!!

Man, Pride and Vengeance (Italian: L'uomo, l'orgoglio, la vendetta, German: Mit Django kam der Tod), also known as With Django Comes Death, is a 1967 Italian Spaghetti Western film directed by Luigi Bazzoni and starring Franco Nero as Don José, Tina Aumont as Carmen and also starred Klaus Kinski as Lt. Miguel Garcia, Carmen’s Husband. The film is a spaghetti western version of the novella Carmen by Prosper Mérimée. It was filmed in  Tabernas, Almeria, Andalucia, Spain.

Plot (it may contain spoilers)

When stalwart Spanish soldier Don José meets the stunningly beautiful Carmen, he becomes instantly obsessed with the mysterious gypsy woman. After discovering she has cheated on him with his Lieutenant, Jose kills the officer during a brawl and flees the city. Forced to become a bandit, Jose partners with Carmen’s villainous husband Garcia to rob a stagecoach and prove his love for the seductive femme fatale.

Cast

Tina Aumont - Carmen / Conchita

Franco Nero - Sergeant José / Django

Klaus Kinski - Garcia, Carmen’s Husband

Guido Lollobrigida (as Lee Burton) - Dancairo / Lopez, Smugglers’ Leader

Franco Ressel - Lieutenant Pepe / Commander

Karl Schönböck - English Diplomat

Alberto Dell'Acqua - Remendado, Young Smuggler

Marcella Valeri - Dorotea, Carmen’s Landlady

Maria Mizar - Maria, Carmen’s Rival

Mara Carisi - Nina, Tavern Keeper in Triana

Anna De Padova - Factory Worker

Tino Boriani - Soldier Guido / Pedro

Giovanni Ivan Scratuglia - Soldier Arresting Carmen

Aldo Vasco - English Diplomat’s Bodyguard

The film was released on 22nd December 1967.

[anayka05ymewtwo06]

Despues del Flash Back?

Despues de la Recomciliacion y la esperanza familiar

Paldea Panamá Arco 6: Momiji Anayka y los 4 Deoxys.

Anayka:Entonces....Mewtwo. Momiji Celebi estos pokémon son...

Deoxys Ataque:Somos los Hermanos deoxys. Rivales De Mewtwo

Mewtwo:No Juzgo a pokémon de tu tipo Deoxys pero no tengo enemistad con ningun ser vivo. Y menos con Singulares ni humanos. Jamas seré enemiga de especies legendarias.

Deoxys Ataque:Acaso perdonas a humanos? Lo que te ha hecho Giovanny el team Rocket?

Deoxys Defensa:Mewtwo sanó esas heridas del pasado

Deoxys:Mewtwo Sanó sus propias heridas?

Deoxys Velocidad:Pero...Que Carajo....Mewtwo acaso tienes idea de lo que haces?

Mewtwo:Es por Todos los seres humanos. Todos los pokémon cada Ser Viviente Tiene derecho de Sanar las Heridas del pasado y no ser enemigos unos contra otros. Soy una Mewtwo Imbatible y por ese emblema Me llaman:La Princesa Mewtwo. O sea Mewtwo Lunar. Que Carajos no entienden de eso?

Los 4 Deoxys:Perdonanos por esa ofensa.

Momiji:Si Fuera tu yo nunca le hablara asi a un pokémon como Mewtwo.

Anayka:Pues. Desde el pasado olvidado de Mewtwo la muerte de ciertos aliados y guerreros. Momiji perdió a su hermana y eso fue dos golpes duros:Uno para los pokémon y Mewtwo y el mismo Clan Ninja Hayabusa. Mas por Amber y Ambertwo. Esa niña dio una luz de esperanza que nunca se apagará aunque solo hasta mi deceso. Y pasará a un sucesor o sucesora.

Era una historia larga pero Mewtwo dijo:No hay solución para la muerte. Eso mismo pasará con los pokémon

This never will changed...dijo Mewtwo

Momiji y Shaymin:Eso que quiere decir...

Anayka:Traduccion? Mewtwo?

Mewtwo:Eso Nunca va a cambiar. En otras palabras como me dijeron Mamá Romelia Joe Hayabusa Tu Momiji y Ryu Hayabusa y muchos humanos al observar de lejos a Anayka durante 35 años de su Vida es una Naturaleza que estaremos acostumbrados a presenciar. La Muerte no tiene solucion y eso Nunca va A Cambiar the Death has not a Solution and it's Will not never Change. Es parte de las vidas de Todo ser Viviente y de los pokémon y es mejor asi. Tal vez esa Frase me la dijiste tu Anayka. Y Kichō junto al padre de Nobunaga. O sea Nobuhide Oda. Tanto Nobunaga como Nobuhide nos lo dijeron y esa es una lección de vida humana o de los pokémon que NADIE debe olvidar. Puede que Amber y Ambertwo esten Muertas y estén en el cielo lo mismo con tu padre y ahora con el padre de Yimara. Pero el verdadero amor es el tesoro que aun Reluce en el mas profundo de tu Corazón y luchar con todas tus fuerzas. Amber. Tus familiares muchos humanos y pokémon creen en ti y eso nunca cambiara.

Anayka:Aunque es dolorosa la perdida. Tienes razón.

Mewtwo:I Never Lied about This! Mew said that what is True and what is false. And you Showed me protect all pokémon and me. And Also includes You. Ninja Momiji. The Shrine Maiden of Hayabusa Village!

Momiji:No entiendo lo que Mewtwo dijo. Pero lo dijo en inglés y ya entiendo que significa. I agree With You also Mewtwo.

Anayka:And Me Too. Also the 4 Deoxys. You want the peace. But Fighting for keeping the pece isn't it? Mewtwo Lunar?

Mewtwo Lunar:Yes! Momiji and Anayka. 🤭

Anayka:Thats Right Mewtwo!. Nada de enemistades. Eres muy respetuosa. Los 4 Deoxys. Podrán ayudarme?

Los 4 Deoxys:Si.

Mewtwo y Celebi y Shaymin:Gracias

Anayka y Momiji:Arigato! Es decir gracias en jp. 🇯🇵

La Gratitud en inglés de La Ninja Momiji de Ninja Gaiden Los pokémon Mewtwo y Anayka

Arco Paldea Panamá 6 parte 1 Mewtwo la Valiente:Conviccion de paz y Justicia.

[youngestdaughtersyndrome]

do you have any lit recs? you seem to have good taste

i'm not at home rn so i don't have the stack of stuff i've read recently but off the top of my head here's some favs.... fiction/novels/etc: fight club by chuck palahniuk, the bluest eye by toni morrison, giovanni's room by james baldwin, cain by jose saramago, the memory police by yoko ogawa, blood and guts in high school by kathy acker, east of eden by john steinbeck, m train by patti smith, there there by tommy orange, the piano teacher by elfriede jelinek, autobiography of red by anne carson, necrophilia variations by supervert poetry: ruin and beauty by deena metzger, homie by danez smith, let us compare mythologies by leonard cohen, smoke by dorianne laux plays: the malady of death by marguerite duras, a raisin in the sun by lorraine hansberry, a doll's house by henrik ibsen, angels in america by tony kushner, and jesus queen of heaven by jo clifford

[battery-low]

some movies/series i have seen/want to see

first slam dunk

blue giant

mary and the witch's flower

sirocco and the kingdom of winds

rascal does not dream of a dreaming girl

the tunnel to summer, the exit of goodbyes

the girl who leapt through time

‌wolf children

boy and the beast

mirai no mirai

belle

summer wars

in this corner of the world

metropolis anime

your name

children who chase lost voices from deep below

5 centimeters per second

the place promised in our early days

‌suzume

weathering with you

garden of words

little nemo

‌fist of the north star

vampire hunter d

vampire hunter d:bloodlust

wings of honneamise

ninja scroll

macros plus

patlabor

redline

the melancholy of haruhi suzumiya

the disappearance of haruhi suzumiya

tekkonkinkreet

serial experiments lain

the case of hana & alice

the piano forest

night is short walk on girl

okko's inn

millennium actress

i want to eat your pancreas

a silent voice

liz and the blue bird

kimi no iro / the colors within

the heike story

dog of flanders

angels egg

giovannis island

night on the galactic railroad

to the forest of firefly lights

a letter to momo

josee, the tiger and the fish

summit of the gods

kodoku no gurume

time of eve

panda go panda

patema inverted

kabaneri of the iron fortress

orange

gravity

wayne

big boys

small lights

old enough

begrijpt u nu waarom ik huil

schindlers list

colourful (1999)

colourful (2010)

‌anthem of the heart

‌maquia

maboroshi

inu-oh

birdboy

‌banana fish

‌terror in resonance

short peace

500 days of summer

summer ghost

chungking express

goodbye don glees

fleabag

one day

office space

lost in translation

manchester by sea

blue valentine

paddington 1, 2

neon genesis evangelion

end of evangelion

evangelion: 1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 3.0+1.0

le otto montagne

the bear

met mes

call me by your name

beatiful boy

beau is afraid

chainsaw man

white lotus

sopranos

band of brothers

monster anime

pluto

master keaton

to your eternity

miss hokusai

‌your lie in april

march sweeps in like a lion

‌a place further than universe

the perverts guide to cinema/ideology

yuki yukite, shingun

everything everywhere all at once

the hunchback of notre dame

jojo rabbit

coldfish

love exposure

in the mood for love

house

in bruges

midnight gospel

‌god father i,ii,iii

‌scarface

‌death parade

one punch man

mob psycho i,ii,iii

vinland saga

bee and puppy cat

‌violet evergarden

violet evergarden (special)

violet evergarden (movie 2019)

violet evergarden (2020 movie)

frieren

‌anohana the flower we saw that day

erased

scavenger reign

inuyashiki

over the garden wall

‌bojack horseman

‌better call saul

‌breaking bad

‌game of thrones

severance

shogun

‌naruto

‌scrubs

‌moonlight kingdom

‌freedom writers

a sun

handmaids tale

carnival row

7 samurai

kingdom of heaven

persona

a brighter summer day

how to make millions before grandma dies

past lives

perfect days

dear zachary:a letter to a son about his father

paris,texas

time still turns pages

silent love

monster (movie)

wonka

get out

poor things

‌us‌

candyman

‌nope

fionna and cake

audition

on the count of three

sensitive the untold story

lucy

the creative brain

rudy

nyad

‌the whale

memories of murder

taxi driver

after hours

goodfellas

a clockwork orange

eternal sunshine of the spotless mind

‌requiem for a dream

trainspotting

waking life

fight club

‌children of heaven

‌my sisters keeper

‌hachi dogs tale

the big short

‌gardenstate

‌boyhood

‌perks of being a wall flower

‌into the wild

‌good will hunting

mishima: a life in four chapters

what's eating gilbert grape?

better days

king of staten island

schindlers list

meet joe black

we are who we are

cowboy bebop

yasuke

nr. 10

dead poet society

ghost in the shell

ghost in the shell sac

memories 1995

euphoria

atlanta

the vince staples show

matrix i,ii,iii

animatrix

star wars visions

castle of cagliostro

my neighbour totoro

spirited away

howls moving castle

kikis delivery service

ponyo

the wind rises

whisper of the heart

the cat returns

the boy and the heron

tales from the earthsea

from up on poppy hill

castle in the sky

nausica valley of the wind

porco rosso

princess monoke

ocean waves

only yesterday

pom poko

grave of fireflies

the tale of the princess kaguya

the neighbours yamadas

gauche the cellist

arrietty

when marnie was there

red turtle

samurai shamploo

oldboy

tales of the unusual

insidious

the face of another

rin daughters of mnemosyne

afro samurai

close

paranoia agent

bullet in your head

gladiator

american gangster

american psycho

poltergeist

eyes wide shut

mind game

if beale street could talk

heat

a time to kill

killers of the flower moon

dunkirk

the iron giant

tree of life

mindhunter

blue eyed samurai

twin peaks