Pretentiousness Kills

I’m away from my physical media collection currently so I’ve tried to remember cinematic experiences that have resonated with me throughout the years. Either in a visceral way like Catch Me Daddy, Possessor and Mother! Or films that have shaped who I am as a person today, how I view what I do with music and art like Whiplash and Babylon.

I remember being terrified the first time I watched Sunshine. It was when it first came out and I would have been very young, it came through the post from Love Film at the time and I remember needing to switch it off as the third act started so I could wait for my dad to finish watching it with me because I was too scared.

With The Tree of Life and Cloud Atlas I was struck with awe at the sheer scale of the universe, and one’s place in it.

As for The Prestige and The Master, I remember starting to identify a sense of self and a lack thereof

Hope you enjoyed, let me know what yours are☺️

dailyflicks:

SINNERS
2025, dir. Ryan Coogler

(via spongebobssquarepants)

daenerys-stormborn:

“There are legends of people born with the gift of making music so true, it can pierce the veil between life and death. Conjuring spirits from the past and the future.”

SINNERS (2025) dir. Ryan Coogler

billy-crudup:

How haints work. They switch places with the soul of a man. But vampires is different. Maybe the worst kind. The soul gets stuck in the body. Can’t rejoin the ancestors. Cursed to live here with all this hate. Can’t even feel the warmth of a sunrise.

SINNERS(2025)dir.RyanCoogler
Cinematography by Autumn Durald Arkapaw