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The world's tough place. There's lots of movies I want to see and because of the dumbest corporate reasons, lots of times they're unavailable or only available to buy on a streaming service. At that point I'd rather just get a blu-ray (s/o walmart dot com and the kino lorber sale...) but if I can't find one, or if it's $50, I'll straight up just see if it's avail to watch on youtube or through the internet archive and a lot of times it is. The quality might not be great, but that's okay. It's important to not get what you want sometimes in life. (Elaine May's A New Leaf, Scorsese's Kundun, Todd Solondz' Happiness, Akira Kuroswa's Dreams, Joseph L. Mankiewicz's Sleuth etc. etc.)
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You can also find a metric ton of free movies on Rare Film: https://rarefilmm.com/film-index/
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Initially a weird experience but so many studios donât seem to care about any of their catalog from the 1970s and prior. So they donât even bother to copyright strike on YouTube or Vimeo or Archive.org. ive watched Laura, Kiss Me Deadly, the Elaine Mayâs Heartbreak Kid, Stepford Wives just online for free. I couldnât even find a place to rent or buy Elaine Mayâs Heartbreak Kid it was nuts
Sep 27, 2024
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I subscribe to a bunch of shit, share log-ins for others and get sent some screeners, but nothing compares to being asked by a friend to illegally locate the third movie spinoff of a Danish sitcom or a German TV documentary about Michael Jackson for free online. It's hunting and gathering for millennial men. The big streaming platforms suck so bad anyway, they flatten most coolness out of culture and they try to trick you into watching stuff in the basest ways. At least I feel accomplished when I do some "Hackers"-style Googling, hit half a dozen dead links and then have to close a swarm of popups like I'm catching flies out of thin air just to watch four innings of a Yankees game.
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Warner Bros just made a playlist on their YouTube with a bunch of full movies on it. Are they all good? I canât say for sure, but there are some really unique picks in there and it is super easily accessible/uninterrupted if you've got an adblock on.
I recommend Crossing Delancey - a great romcom, and watching it here can be a test run to see if you wanna commit to getting the Criterion release
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I valued the idea of being low maintenance and chill for so long and I don't know if it's been living in LA and or being around more rich people but I realized recently that it is all a lie. every single person that is effortlessly âjust being themselvesâ is lying. They are getting acupuncture and lymphatic drainage and taking pilates and yoga 3 times a week and getting facials and layering $90 serums and creams on top of their face and going to erewhon 80 times a day to get probiotic water that does not exist. they are a project. and guess what? so am I! sometimes it's nice.
Jun 19, 2023
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so nice finishing something or having a friend finish something and then swapping that book. sharing things with your loved ones? making memories tactile? it's nice! (some that I've given or received that I've loved as of late: why fish don't exist - lulu miller, clarice lispector - an apprenticeship, how to do nothing - jenny odell, stay true - hua hsu)
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Travel is weird on the body. I'm of course, so grateful to be a modern independent woman or whatever but no one talks about how feminism means you're always fighting off a little cold...I really hate swallowing pills so I stand by these swabs when I'm about to get sick. *Ayo's Note: Right before I sent this off, I consulted a friend about my list...turns out the guy who created this was kind of insane and these might not work and might even? damage my nerve receptors xo. That is what is so rock and roll about me....I'm addicted to danger (I'm not).
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