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One More Time with Feeling
Documents the writing, recording and performing of Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds’ sixteenth studio album, Skeleton Tree.
Amanda Palmer
Actress
I have to say, though his song subject is (as usual) darker than dark, Nick Cave acts here not as a harbinger of doom but of the lightest, noblest message an artist can deliver to us: that the choice to make art is, indeed, an act of blistering revenge against the nonsensical, cold unfairness of this world. Tragedy strikes. We can close down, or we can keep working on finding a frame in which to house all of this confusion. A black frame, or a white one … any frame at all. We have a choice.
So thank you for the gift, Nick. Thank you.
How to Talk to Girls at Parties
Croydon, 1977. A trio of punk teenagers goes to a party to meet girls, but they find that girls there are very different from what they expected.
Amanda Palmer
Actress
It’s a beautiful movie. EVERYONE IN THE UK: it’s OUT!!!!
The Addams Family
The Addams family's lives begin to unravel when they face-off against a treacherous, greedy crafty reality-TV host while also preparing for their extended family to arrive for a major celebration.
Amanda Palmer
Actress
mama and dada were sleepy this morning but ash was all pumped to go see the new addams family movie (it was, by the way, WONDERFUL).
Wings of Desire
Two angels, Damiel and Cassiel, glide through the streets of Berlin, observing the bustling population, providing invisible rays of hope to the distressed but never interacting with them. When Damiel falls in love with lonely trapeze artist Marion, the angel longs to experience life in the physical world, and finds -- with some words of wisdom from actor Peter Falk -- that it might be possible for him to take human form.
Amanda Palmer
Actress
#WingsOfDesire was the first film i saw as a teen that showed me how art can reach right into the core of your heart.
The Shape of Water
An other-worldly story, set against the backdrop of Cold War era America circa 1962, where a mute janitor working at a lab falls in love with an amphibious man being held captive there and devises a plan to help him escape.
Amanda Palmer
Actress
I snuck out to see @RealGDT’s new film. drop everything and go. it’s love, life, absurdity, pain & truth all smeared into absolute high grade fuck yes perfection.
The Wall
Government propaganda film about the erection of the Berlin Wall.
Amanda Palmer
Actress
i first saw "santa sangre" when i was about 15, around the same time i saw "the wall", and both films deeply influenced the way i made theater and wrote songs
King of Hearts
An ornithologist mistaken for an explosives expert is sent alone into a small French town during WWI to investigate a garbled report from the resistance about a bomb which the departing Germans have set to blow up a weapons cache.
Amanda Palmer
Actress
the other one, another favorite vying for first place: "king of hearts".
Santa Sangre
A young man is confined in a mental hospital. Through a flashback we see that he was traumatized as a child, when he and his family were circus performers: he saw his father cut off the arms of his mother, a religious fanatic and leader of the heretical church of Santa Sangre ("Holy Blood"), and then commit suicide. Back in the present, he escapes and rejoins his surviving and armless mother.
Amanda Palmer
Actress
one of my favorite films of all time, ever, is "santa sangre.
The Dance of Reality
“Having broken away from my illusory self, I was desperately seeking a path and a meaning to life.” This phrase perfectly sums up Alejandro Jodorowsky’s biographical project: reconstituting the incredible adventure of his life. Alejandro Jodorowsky was born in 1929 in Tocopilla, a coastal town on edge of the Chilean desert, where this film was shot. It was there where he discovered the fundamentals of reality, as he underwent an unhappy and alienated childhood as part of an uprooted family.
Amanda Palmer
Actress
last night we went to see The Dance of Reality, the new jodorowsky film. i never go to the movies. that's a *slight* exaggeration, but pretty much i go to an actual movie theater like...once a year. i see no movies. it's embarrassing how no movies i see. i see movies only on planes. which is always interesting because the altitude makes you cry at all movies on planes. so i see movies on planes and no matter what the movie is, i cry. also, wine. anyway.
A Zed & Two Noughts
Twin zoologists lose their wives in a car accident and become obsessed with decomposing animals.
Amanda Palmer
Actress
This is one of my all-time favourite Nyman arrangements, from my all-time favourite Greenaway movie, A Zed and Two Noughts .
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