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Favorite films

  • Shadows
  • The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975
  • Alma's Rainbow
  • Black Orpheus

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  • Suffragette

  • Bay of Angels

    ★★★★★

  • 10 Things We Should Do Before We Break Up

    ★½

  • Fifth Avenue Girl

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Suffragette

2015

Watched

Don’t watch this.

Watch this: youtu.be/n38bf7c82Pc

Required for class. It took strong actors, an interesting premise and puts you to bed like a gummy melatonin with its poor script and basic cinematography. I wanna be cool about this because it’s a woman director, but watching this all the way through felt like they were trying to make me feel the 50 years it took these suffragettes to win.

Also: youtu.be/ED3SBJhawcA

Bay of Angels

1963

★★★★★ Liked Rewatched

Utterly decimating. 
Sheer Perfection.

Every gambler knows
That the secret to survivin‘
Is knowin' what to throw away
And knowin' what to keep
'Cause every hand's a winner
And every hand's a loser

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10 Things We Should Do Before We Break Up

2020

★½ Watched

Emotional edging. An utter letdown of an ending. My friend and I were the only people under 50 in the theatre. Everyone was vocally upset at the ending, groans all around. An old woman in purple lipstick came over to lament that she hated how it turned out. Similarly an old man in a leather bomber, standing in the lobby waiting for his wife to come out of the restroom, hit us with a bewildered expression, “What happened in there,…

The Last Black Man in San Francisco

2019

★★★★★ Liked 1

Mommy originally hails from the bay. Took her and my best gay to this, this afternoon. Alden cried 5 times and in the lobby afterward. We group hugged it out. And mom insisted we get ice cream to process. Even an old, icey-veined woman, such as myself,  found herself sniveling, multiple times. The clothes were great. The cinematography was great. Sets were beautiful. The portrait of black artistry at odds with black toxic masculinity, pitch perfect. The pacing and length…