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When it comes to matters of love, it’s often platonic devotion that proves the most intimate and carries the most weight in one’s life. It’s the love stories of friendship, the decades-spanning, unbreakable connection to someone that stays around as lovers come and go. Yes, romantic love is an all-encompassing illness of the heart, but without a best friend to guide you, life becomes less tolerable. Cinema has long been awash in tales of romantic love, of course, but it’s rare to see a tale of love between two female best friends, especially one that genuinely shows what it is like to have that kind of soul mate, without whom everything else would be askew. But with Noah Baumbach’s latest film, Frances Ha, we see one woman’s journey of self-discovery, ignited by a fractured friendship.

Greta Gerwig & Mickey Sumner on Exploring Female Friendship in Noah Baumbach’s ‘Frances Ha’

The trailer for Jia Zhangke’s film A Touch of Sin, premiering at Cannes soon.  Notable words in the trailer include “Based on true events” (like certain murders that were never solved and that high-speed rail crash), which is amazing considering China’s film censorship.

Frances Ha - dir. Noah Baumbach

This looks fantastic, and weren’t we just talking about the lack of real female friendships in film?

My favorite scene from Tampopo,

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Akira Kurosawa and Toshiro Mifune on the set of Sanjuro (1962).

more films with these two that are far, far better than the one we saw today

(via krzysztofkieslowski)

I’ve been curious about this movie because of the poster for a really long time now, and only just realized that it’s about the author Mishima Yukio, whom I’ve read, and who was evidently a fucking lunatic but quite sad as well.

The cinematography is absolutely incredible and inventive, and the score is Philip Glass, but yeah Mishima was a bit nuts.  I suppose you have to be to try to organize an ultra-nationalist coup and then commit seppuku in public…

(Source: lindseycathryn, via thestudyofmettle)

if you’re ever looking for something to lose your mind/fall asleep to, consider Five Dedicated to Ozu, by Abbas Kiarostami.  It’s a movie of five long takes (which Ozu was a master of) of various beach scenes.  My personal favorite was the ducks but I couldn’t find that online.

I think this film explains Kiarostami to a great extent because when I saw Like Someone in Love, I swear to god several minutes could have been shaved off every single scene in the movie.