Good Time

"How good do you feel right now?"

Director(s): Benny Safdie, Josh Safdie
Cinematographer: Sean Price Williams
Writer(s): Josh Safdie, Ronald Bronstein

Frances Ha

"Frances, how much longer?"

Director: Noah Baumbach
Wrier(s): Noah Baumbach, Greta Gerwig
Cinematographer: Sam Levy
Year: 2012

Lady Bird

"What if this is the best version?"

Director: Greta Gerwig
Writer: Greta Gerwig
Cinematographer: Sam Levy
Year: 2017

Call Me By Your Name

"Right now you're feeling a lot of sorrow. Don't kill it."

That line in the caption captured something very special. Sorrow is a measure of love. Sorrow is an expression of love.

Director: Luca Guadagnino
Writer(s): James Ivory (screenplay by), André Aciman (based on the novel by)Cinematographer: Sayombhu MukdeepromYear: 2017

The Wailing

"Show me your true form."

Director: Hong-jin Na
Writer: Hong-jin Na
Cinematographer: Kyung-pyo Hong
Year: 2016

Demolition

"Fuck is a great word."

I had an extremely personal and intense emotional reaction to this film. This thing spoke to me not only because of it's own merits but because of it's timing- I felt as though this character was written just for me. I stumbled across this film and it aligned with me in perfect irony. It's about this man whose wife died and he finds himself oddly unmoved. It forces him to collide with a hard truth; he never loved her. In the wake of that realization he has to find his way out of the life he lived and didn't care about. To rediscover what and who he is, he becomes obsessed with taking things apart to see how they work; including his entire house. Here's where the irony comes in. In the film, he takes apart his entire house to see the working parts within while I was trying to put my house back together. Although I was so wrapped up in this film I never moved a thing.

Shame

Shame

              Brilliant. McQueen starts to use scene transitions as an opportunity to establish character queues. For instance, we’ve established that Brandon often goes to the bathroom to masturbate. Now as a way to transition from scene to scene, we see Brandon simply going through the men’s bathroom doors,  portraying his frequent need and addiction while simultaneously providing a smooth transition from scene to scene.

Director: Steve McQueen
Writer(s): Steve McQueen, Abi Morgan
Cinematography: Sean Bobbit
Year: 2011