Totally F***ed Up

F i l m  S k o o l

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A delirious mix of punk nihilism and deadpan irony, the first film in Gregg Araki’s Teen Apocalypse Trilogy puts an audaciously queer spin on Jean-Luc Godard’s classic Masculin féminin.

Across fifteen jagged episodes, Totally F***ed Up plunges headlong into the lives of a group of queer, disaffected Los Angeles teenagers who form a kind of makeshift family as they navigate desire and heartbreak, societal and familial rejection, and the alienation of growing up gay in an era of relentless moralising.

Both a defiantly raw anthem of outsiderhood and a furious reckoning with all-American homophobia, Araki’s answer to the 1980s teen comedy captures youthful angst with an immediacy that still bruises.

Damage

B e a t s ,  R h y m e s  &  L i f e

R e w o u n d:  2 0 0 1

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After The Love Has Gone, music from Damage.

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Ryze

B e a t s ,  R h y m e s  &  L i f e

R e w o u n d:  2 0 0 2

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In My Life, music from Ryze.

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The Silence of the Lambs

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Following an early career directing low-budget exploitation movies for producer Roger Corman, by the 1990s, Jonathan Demme was known best for making quirky comedies (Something Wild, Married to the Mob) and music documentaries (Stop Making Sense) – that is, until he signed on to adapt Thomas Harris’ best-selling thriller The Silence of the Lambs. The resulting film – a sombre, enthralling nightmare vision of psychopathology – became a five-time Academy Award® winner and made cannibal mastermind Hannibal Lecter a household name.

FBI agent Clarice Starling (Jodie Foster, The Accused) races against time to stop a serial killer, nicknamed “Buffalo Bill” (Ted Levine, Heat), before he kills again. To solve the case, she risks her own sanity by consulting with malevolent psychiatrist Hannibal Lecter (Anthony Hopkins, Nixon). A master manipulator, the sinister Dr Lecter offers crucial information that may be key to unlocking the killer’s identity – but at a price. Clarice must open primal events from her past to Lecter’s menacing curiosity and confront the trauma that fuels her search for justice.

A deeply disturbing examination of human evil, The Silence of the Lambs changed the face of the serial killer genre and remains a highly influential, landmark classic of mystery, suspense and psychological horror.

The man to open his ears widest to flatterers is he who first flatters himself and is fondest of himself

M a s s  in  Motion

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This Closeness

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Tensions rise when a couple stays at the home of a reclusive host, with the three entering an intimate battle to gain and reclaim territory.

What hurts the soul. My soul adores

M a s s  in  Motion

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The man to open his ears widest to flatterers is he who first flatters himself and is fondest of himself

M a s s  in  Motion

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Models

Kyle and Anderson

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"The man to open his ears widest to flatterers is he who first flatters himself and is fondest of himself."

Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman statesman, 106 BC - 43 BC

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Everything exists, everything is true, and the earth is only a little dust under our feet

M a s s  in  Motion

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