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She/They.Film Studies MA and MLIS. bylines: @TheFilmStage @NCFilmCritics. Former Film Fest Coordinator. Kate Bush Fan. http://mollywoodwrites.wordpress.com https://letterboxd.com/mbrasberry/
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I think one of the most annoying fanbases are the male film fans of Caligula (1979) who are so convinced there’s a masterpiece cut that Tinto Brass was screwed out of. They remind me of Snyder fanboys but for Italian erotic cinema. It’s not a good film, just let it go.

Season 9 kicks off with 5 films from David Lynch. Special Guest @mrasberry.bsky.social

Baby Face (1933) is a pre code film about how fanboys of Friedrich Nietzsche will inevitably ruin your life espousing the worldview they believe Nietzsche had.

Went bike riding and stopped almost 30 minutes in cause three hills in a row kicked my ass. I want the stamina I had in my early 20s back!

If Conclave won, would the discourse be that the queers are becoming Catholic or glamorizing Catholicism?

This creature has grown on me. Seen the trailer three times in theaters and I’m ready for this little guy to fawn over like Gizmo.

Oscar’s are over, now I can focus on the fact I’ll be watching a David Lynch picture every single week of March in a theatre.

Hate when people respond to now watching with having to butt their opinions like their opinions need to supersede anyone else’s enjoyment of a film. Don’t be this guy.

Can’t wait for awards shows to be over so then people can actually watch movies just for their own pleasure and not as a way of obsessing over how many awards it should win.

Found out from an interview with Walter Murch that Billy Wilder came up with the idea of The Apartment after watching Brief Encounter and wondering what the life of the man who loans his apartment to the main couple was like and worked to create a story around that concept.

Can't wait to bicycle on the road after work today!

LISTEN: Member Molly Rasberry (@mrasberry.bsky.social) visits Left of the Projector (@LOTP_Pod) to discuss #moderntimes:

Marya’s impressive book tour is set to begin: screenings, directors, and signings!!

How can Zendaya be Shrek's daughter when she's already Meechee?

Roberta Flack, Michelle Trachtenberg, and now Gene Hackman, this week is cursed beyond belief. I hope all their loved ones are getting all the love and support during this difficult period.

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Israel is delaying the release of Palestinian detainees and prisoners, disrupting the Gaza ceasefire deal, and its military is intensifying an offensive in the occupied West Bank.

Been locked out of my Twitter account cause I told transphobic people to fix their hearts or die. And the post gained too much traction. Worth it!

Talked about David Lynch on a podcast for over 2 hours last night and I barely scratched the service. That’s an artist whose oeuvre can take up an entire semester of school.

David Lynch with his female stars vs his male film crew

I rode in a car once with James Ellroy on the way to a screening of LA CONFIDENTIAL and he basically backed all of this up. It was a few months before the major Spacey scandal broke, but he basically intimated that Spacey was a predator on that set.

Got tickets to see 3 David Lynch films on the big screen

Got two

One of my favorite performances of last year, an actor absolutely understanding the material and turning in what if Tex Avery's Red Hot Riding Hood started reading theory?

Zionism is so violently antisemitic it inevitably attacks Jews

READ: Member Molly Rasberry (@mrasberry.bsky.social‬) reviews #captainamerica Brave New World:

Wild that for almost two decades, The United Nations had a resolution that designated zionism as a form of racism and discrimination and that America's vote didn't derail the resolution. This was the right call, Zionism is inherently discriminatory

Eyes of Laura Mars (1978) is an engrossing proto-slasher thriller that encapsulates the idea of the male gaze being enforced within a female character, voluntarily and involuntarily and creates a dichotomy that links together sexualization and violence with the gaze. I dug it.

Insane to me that Richard Farnsworth gave one of the best performances of the 1990s in The Straight Story (1999) while dying of malignant bone cancer and even older than the real Alvin Straight. What an indelible performance and a great send off for the great Richard Farnsworth.

Spending Valentines night with a good movie. 💜

THIS IS A GREAT MOVIE!!

Found out that David Lynch based the “Fish in the percolator” bit from Twin Peaks on a real life event where someone left a bar of lava soap in the percolator so the coffee tasted awful. It affected him so much, he added it into Twin Peaks but changed it to fish.

I don't think anyone is demanding that every person needs stacks of film, VHS, DVDs and Blurays but the fact is, owning physical media is the only way to guarantee access to what you wish to see in the future. We are seeing streaming getting yanked on a whim and it's only going to get worse.

Re-sharing last year’s Valentine’s Day post

This is how I write out my posts

I didn't merely dislike Captain America: Brave New World, I personally loathed it. My over 1k word review:https://mollywoodwrites.wordpress.com/2025/02/13/captain-america-brave-new-world-provides-a-disappointing-jingoistic-retread-that-fails-its-lead-and-the-fans/

Watched Captain America: Brave New World last night. A hollow retread of the same tired formula with poorly executed exposition and actors (except for Harrison and Anthony) sleepwalking throughout their scenes. To put it in a succinct way: it’s bad.

Watched a movie

The Democratic strategy is going well huh.

In loving memory of the beautiful Brianna Ghey on the second anniversary of her tragic murder. Taken far too soon by the monsters who walked amongst us 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️

Calling all gold dust women! This is no Rumour(s): I’m thrilled to have manifested a dream(s) book on the incomparable shawl queen herself, Stevie Nicks. I am twirling and shaking a tambourine in anticipation! #stevienicks #bookstagram #fleetwoodmac #authorsofinstagram

Never gonna call it the gulf of America.