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The Beast Shall Die 1959
-over-the-top jazz soundtrack by ideologically problematic but very important avant-garde composer Toshirō Mayuzumi is so much fun (for my fellow jazz enthusiasts btw he collaborated w/none other than max roach + abbey lincoln on the ‘Black Sun’ soundtrack--look for it!)
-Tatsuya Nakadai always makes the most hilariously “off” and freaky facial expressions which is why he’s one of my fav. actors but crazy Nietzschean~ bisexual loner who doesn’t skip leg day and anecdotally dumps sewage on a statue of Jesus…
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Dante's Inferno 1967
I love this one so much and it’s truly shameful that I hadn’t watched it before
Whether it’s Alan Bates in ‘Women in Love’ at a flea-market waxing about chairs that once had “something to express“ or Ann-Margret writhing around in a diarrhetic explosion of chocolate in ‘Tommy,’ it’s clear that Russell despised mass consumerism and what better subject-matter then than the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood to also expand on a theme he was very much obsessed with: the callousness, selfishness, and…
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Bryan Ferry - The Bete Noire Tour 88-89 2002
This is honestly beautifully shot--i can't believe anything could make champs élysées look glamorous. bryan ferry's aesthetics were pretty tight around this era too (i mean they always are, as with all libras that are scorpio rising, but i really like this album's #mood). the music itself from bête noire was acc. to him perfectible but i think it's a pretty underrated album (would've been great to see him duet w/viktor lazlo, the french singer, not the casablanca character!). a must-watch for ferry/roxy fans
