weekly digest: another slow week, now with head cold
the little bit that happened at Flick Filosopher from Monday, February 13, to Sunday, February 19
It’s so hard for me to get out of the house these days with my fucked-up hip, but I did manage it one day last week, including for a screening of a movie I can’t talk about yet, but I will have some Things to Say soon. It was a nice day! So lovely to be out and about. I tweeted about it:
And then, a couple of days later, I came down with a stonking head cold. I have not been out of the house again since that day, and my housemates were even away, so there’s absolutely no other way I could have caught whatever bug this is except on my one nice day out.
I just cannot seem to catch a break these days. 🙄
Sorry to complain, but my misery is compounded now. This isn’t Covid, unless it’s a new variant that’s not showing up on rapid tests. Though it doesn’t feel like when I had Covid last summer, at least. It just feels like a horrible, horrible cold that’s making my head feel like it weights about a hundred pounds.
I hope your winter is going better than mine.
—MaryAnn
new at flick filosopher, Feb 13–19
#DailyStream weekly roundup
The #DailyStream is a once-per-day, single-movie-only streaming recommendation that appears both at my Substack and Patreon, and in truncated forms across my social media. They are free for everyone. [read more]
Blue Jean movie review: cowardice and bravery as matters of survival [pictured]
A powerful, necessary film, deeply humane and sympathetic, ugly-beautiful in its panic, full of dread and bad behavior. We feel every iota of Jean’s anxiety at closeted life in the homophobic 1980s. [read the review | cinemas UK]
loaded question: what are some great anti–Valentine’s Day movies?
I’ve chosen the terrific Frances Ha, which doesn’t deny that romance is very important to many people, but that plenty of others find similar fulfillment elsewhere. [reply at Flick Filosopher | reply at Substack | reply at Patreon]
what I’m bingeing
The Last of Us [HBO Max US, Sky/Now UK]: really enjoying this, but man, is it grim — there don’t seem to be very many good people anywhere
Old Enough! [Netflix globally]: the Japanese original has been going for decades, and I’m really enjoying how what Netflix is calling Season 2 revisits some of the early preschool errand-runners from the 1990s and early 2000s now that they’re all grown up (and sending their own little kids on their first errands); so cute
His Dark Materials [HBO Max US/BBC iPlayer UK]: started Season 3, which feels slower and more internal than I recall previous seasons being; maybe transdimensional philosophizing on the nature of evil and the soul isn’t a great fit for TV? *shrugs*
Tweet of the week…
Incredible thread about the immense damage the Hays Code did not only to American film but to American culture and society at large:
coming up at Flick Filosopher…
rom-com What’s Love Got to Do with It?
hippies turn religious freaks in historical drama Jesus Revolution
Cocaine Bear, which will surely be the film of 2023
M. Night Shyamalan’s Knock at the Cabin
animated flicks Puss in Boots: The Last Wish and The Amazing Maurice
as many Oscar nominees as I can get to (including the shorts)
#MeToo dramas She Said and Women Talking
detective Benoit Blanc’s return in Glass Onion
Harry & Meghan: Vol II on Netflix
indie horror Skinamarink
And more!
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