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3 things about Susan Streitfeld’s FEMALE PERVERSIONS

Female Perversions [1996] 1. Compulsive lipstick freshening. 2. Stealing her lucky suit. 3. Nipple and razor blade.

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3 things about Pedro Almodóvar’s THE ROOM NEXT DOOR

The Room Next Door [2004] 1. Pink snow. 2. A copy of Erotic Vagrancy. Later, she asks the policeman if he’s ever read it. 3. Stretched out on the same chaise as her mother, dressed entirely in white.

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3 things about Julio Torres’s PROBLEMISTA

Problemista [2023] 1. Take off the pants, take off the backpack. 2. Uncooperative Slinky. 3. She accurately points out his own insistence on complication.

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3 things about Jóhann Jóhannsson’s LAST AND FIRST MEN

Last and First Men [2020] 1. “We cannot prevent the climate from becoming more and more deadly, even at the poles. The intervening regions have already been deserted.” 2. Fleeting glimpses of birds are the only creatures we see in … Continue reading

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3 things about David Fincher’s THE KILLER

The Killer [2023] 1. Paint bucket overboard. 2. “Slippery” stair and a hidden knife. 3. Sub-Pop t-shirt.

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3 things about Tony Gilroy’s MICHAEL CLAYTON

Michael Clayton [2007] 1. An armload of fresh baguettes. 2. “Who needs balance? There’s your balance. There’s your balance.” 3. An injection between the toes. 3 other things.

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3 things about George Miller’s THREE THOUSAND YEARS OF LONGING

Three Thousand Years of Longing [2022] 1. Bewildered, terrified Einstein. 2. Books disguised as bottles. 3. She packs his things into a new cardboard box and adds it to the shelf in her basement next to an identical cardboard box … Continue reading

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3 things about Luca Guadagnino’s SUSPIRIA

Suspiria [2018] 1. Many contortions. 2. Clearing away the leaves from the doorstep. 3. Long black hair, black skull.

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3 things about Wes Anderson’s THE FRENCH DISPATCH

The French Dispatch [2021] 1. “I’ll have my drink now.” 2. Cat-covered roofs. 3. Typographic memory.

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3 things about Lynn Hershman-Leeson’s CONCEIVING ADA

Conceiving Ada [1997] 1. Draped bathtub. 2. Unconvincing mouse controls. 3. Karen Black with an English accent.

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