Double dipping recs for this question, double dipping Noah Baumbach recs but I think this is required viewing for people in their 20s who live in a city and need to change their perspective on what their life was supposed to be.
Oct 18, 2024
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* Tiny Furniture (2010), dir. Lena Dunham — Girls before Girls!!!
“After graduating from film school, Aura (Lena Dunham) returns to New York to live with her photographer mother, Siri (Laurie Simmons), and her sister, Nadine (Grace Dunham), who has just finished high school. Aura is directionless and wonders where to go next in her career and her life. She takes a job in a restaurant and tries unsuccessfully to develop relationships with men, including Keith (David Call), a chef where she works, and cult Internet star Jed (Alex Karpovsky).”
* Young Adult (2011), dir. Diablo Cody — one of my favorites…
“Mavis Gary (Charlize Theron) is a successful writer of teen literature who returns to her hometown with a dual mission: to relive her glory days and steal away her now-married high-school sweetheart (Patrick Wilson). However, her mission does not go exactly to plan, and she finds her homecoming more problematic than she expected. Instead, Mavis forms an unusual bond with a former classmate (Patton Oswalt), who has also found it difficult to move past high school.”
* Frances Ha (2012), dir. Noah Baumbach — the dinner party scene especially is so real
“A story that follows a New York woman, who doesn't really have an apartment. She apprentices for a dance company although she's not really a dancer, and throws herself headlong into her dreams.”
Oct 7, 2024
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i come back and watch this film at least once a year… i love to use Frances Ha to introduce my friends and family to “arthouse” films. it’s witty, relatable, and leaves a lot of room for personal introspection as we age and how life gets in the way of our closest relationships. also who doesn’t love greta gerwig literally just being her charming self on screen!
Sep 16, 2024
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I think this is a good cross section of my favourite films— Frances Ha and Worst Person are really incisive portraits of being in your twenties; Where The Wild Things Are is one of my favourite movies about childhood— like many Miyazaki films, it features children but isn’t a children’s movie; and Kramer Vs. Kramer is such a perfect showcase for Dustin Hoffman and Meryl Streep— all excellent feel something movies.
Apr 18, 2024
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Just because I see a window to get across the street doesn’t mean you don’t have to look both ways. I’ve been on the other side of that though…
May 11, 2025
I met Erin (@RIOTGRRRL) and Jake (@SLOWDAZZLE) last year after I started using PI.FYI—we organized a meetup before a Jonathan Richman show and immediately clicked over our shared taste in music and similar sensibilities. We started hanging out a lot and had some great times together. I’ve also gotten to know many of their friends, who are all really cool. Erin and Jake started dating a couple of months after the three of us became friends, but our group chat still pops off. Their friendship has meant a lot to me, especially since moving to NYC in 2023, and I really appreciate having them in my life.
May 16, 2025
Come hang with some PI.FYI folks at Franklin Park in Crown Heights in Brooklyn on 7/19 @ 6:30. riotgrrrl and slowdazzle will be there too! Link is the Partiful invited!
Jun 22, 2024