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[–] memfree@piefed.social 2 points 2 weeks ago
  • Becoming Led Zeppelin (2025): Documentary. I don't know if it would appeal to anyone outside the fanbase, but I enjoyed it.
  • On Becoming a Guinea Fowl (2024): I'm on a little bit of an African binge, and this film worked for me. We watch Shula interact with her extended family after finding her uncle laying dead by the road. Those unfamiliar with her culture (like myself) learn certain customs and mores while learning about the dead uncle and his family with most the voices coming from the women.
  • Beau Is Afraid (2023): Surrealist story of a man riddled with anxiety. fear, and neuroses. At almost 3 hours long, I kept thinking Pink Floyd's Mother was a more succinct exploration of the same character in less than six minutes -- but that's not really fair because it is part of the double album The Wall (1h 21m), which has its own surrealist movie (1h 35m).
  • Sisters (1973): Early Brian De Palma thriller. Well, 'early' in the feature film sense. I'm not saying it is fantastic, but he does a good job with a limited budget.
  • Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar (2021): Why did I bother? I should know by now that SNL people generally make stupid movies. It was certainly the lightest and happiest movie of the week.
  • Street Scene (1931): Pre-code story about people at an apartment building in NYC. I really liked this call back to a bygone era.
  • Gentleman's Agreement (1947): Gregory Peck plays a writer who pretends to be Jewish to feel what it is like to face American antisemitism. It felt appropriate to watch given the ongoing horrors in Israel, but as a movie it is only so-so.