Holy

I just watched Ingmar Bergman's Winter Light and it's kinda tedious watching really old movies that are black & white and foreign but when the priest gives the sermon to an empty church at the end it's so powerful that it really doesn't matter.

amiright??

Lars and the Real Girl is truly a work of art. To make a film about a troubled man and his sex doll companion is ridiculous, but for it to be fantastic, empathetic and even tasteful? Well, that's crazier.

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Ducks are gross and when they approach you it's creepy. Baby ducks are cute and when they attack you it's adorable.

It's Me, Daniel London

Old Joy was exactly the slow, quiet, small movie I hoped it would be. A meditation on love in friendship, forgotten and strained by time and change but still present-- worn, as the title implies. Beautiful, and not unlike Junebug, another favorite with a penchant for long pauses and a perfect Yo La Tengo soundtrack.

I took a color quiz a while back, maybe you tried it too. I came across it and tried again, and the results were just as accurate. I don't remember exactly what it said; something to the tune of 'feels powerless, stressed, just wants love.' Basically, it's time to get something going-- I have no right to feel hopeless.

W.A.Y.U.H.

THE BEST PART of Rob Sheffield's Love Is A Mixtape? The Pavement lyric in the preface:

I wasted all your precious time
I wasted it all on you

THE STORY ITSELF suckerpunched me, turning from a tedious recounting of indie rock adolescence and graduate angst (hit too close to home obvs) to a heart-rending tale of "the long, nearly unbearable ache of being a young widower." It's not fiction, and knowing that may have been the worst part.

SPEAKING OF graduate angst, choosing to watch Noah Baumbach's Kicking and Screaming may have been a bad idea. It's a movie about post-college directionlessness, the "gravitational pull of campus," and breaking into the real world. Except it sucked and I only made it through 15 minutes. Just like in Margot at the Wedding, Baumbach's latest film, the characters are all unbelievably pretentious academic assholes. Completely unfunny, and worse, completely unrelatable.

I CAN NOW SAY conclusively that regardless of my love for The Squid and the Whale, I hate Noah Baumbach.

I Knew This Was Coming

Maria Full of Grace is the most difficult movie I've ever watched.