My favorite part of the screening was overhearing a discussion between two Gen-X lesbians on the way out. "I enjoyed its raucous explicit spirit but he no longer has the je ne sais quoi that he did in the 90s" "susan, none of us have the je ne sais quoi of the 90s anymore"

Willow Catelyn Maclay@willowcatelyn.bsky.social · 7m ago

I enjoyed Gregg Araki's I WANT YOUR SEX primarily because it was amusing to go to the mall & see Olivia Wilde lube up a big pink dildo and stick it in Cooper Hoffman's ass.

I enjoyed Gregg Araki's I WANT YOUR SEX primarily because it was amusing to go to the mall & see Olivia Wilde lube up a big pink dildo and stick it in Cooper Hoffman's ass.

I haven't liked a Refn film in quite a long time, but I loved HER PRIVATE HELL, and I tried to figure out why. The film is a fantasy of busted binaries, and characters whose sexuality, gender identity, kinks, and persona are in a state of symbolic impermanence. www.patreon.com/willowcately...

I haven't liked a Refn film in quite a long time, but I loved HER PRIVATE HELL, and I tried to figure out why. The film is a fantasy of busted binaries, and characters whose sexuality, gender identity, kinks, and persona are in a state of symbolic impermanence. www.patreon.com/willowcately...

I wrote about TEENAGE SEX AND DEATH AT CAMP MIASMA for Reverse Shot. I think it is an extraordinary film - a dizzying, unabashedly kitschy stoner rom-com. I sung its praises + did a temp check on "Trans Cinema" below: reverseshot.org/reviews/entr...

Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma

How do you make a film that feels like your own, when everything about your form has been tokenized, appropriated, wrongly treated as representative of your entire community? This is the impossible, i...

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I'm certain that I'll live to see a trans woman in the WNBA at some point, and I'll be rooting for her.

on Sophie Cunningham and a trans controversy that doesn't involve any actual trans people: defector.com/the-right-ha...

I have a big piece on CAMP MIASMA dropping later this year, but I'll just say now that I liked it a lot. I found it moving. It's a different tone than Schoenbrun's elegies to dysphoria, but not entirely. It's still about being in a body, but there's an attempt to make peace with that here.

Newest reader's choice poll is up and we are going to be looking at 1996 this month. CRASH, BOUND, TRANSSEXUAL MENACE, THE BIRDCAGE, TRAINSPOTTING, and much more. Vote if you'd like! www.patreon.com/willowcately...

I have a big piece on CAMP MIASMA dropping later this year, but I'll just say now that I liked it a lot. I found it moving. It's a different tone than Schoenbrun's elegies to dysphoria, but not entirely. It's still about being in a body, but there's an attempt to make peace with that here.

He's a primary aesthetic influence of this trans new wave that we are seeing. These filmmakers are not copying him, but working alongside his aesthetic ideas in a spiritual manner (the fantasia of People's Joker, the Inland Empire-esque nightmare of CM2, Schoenbrun's dysphoric otherworlds)

Willow Catelyn Maclay@willowcatelyn.bsky.social · 2d ago

A lot of Trans people like Lynch bc his films are situated in a strange liminal place of reality and an abstracted alternate reality and they phase between one another. The inbetweenness is welcoming & potentially synonymous to a quotidian low-humming dysphoria. A wrongness that many of us recognize

A lot of Trans people like Lynch bc his films are situated in a strange liminal place of reality and an abstracted alternate reality and they phase between one another. The inbetweenness is welcoming & potentially synonymous to a quotidian low-humming dysphoria. A wrongness that many of us recognize

feel like a guy named spiderman should look more fucked up, but he's just a guy with abs and brown hair

What are the odds Cronenberg makes an appearance at Charli's Toronto gig

I wrote about THE ADOLESCENCE OF UTENA. I've loved this one for a long time. Some of the most pleasurable animation of the late 90s. www.patreon.com/willowcately...

hot tip: the utopia blu-ray for jane schoenbrun's we're all going to the world's fair got a new slipcover so if you don't already own the movie now's your chance to pick it up (and it comes with a lovely little booklet with an interview between me and jane) vinegarsyndrome.com/collections/...

I wrote about THE ADOLESCENCE OF UTENA. I've loved this one for a long time. Some of the most pleasurable animation of the late 90s. www.patreon.com/willowcately...

I want to live in the boombox world of these two magical dancers

Third Window Films@thirdwindowfilms.com · 4d ago

Ren Osugi, we miss you! CRAZY LIPS 発狂する唇 Quite possibly one of the strangest films to come out of the early 00s JHorror boom! World premiere of its new master Aug 28 in London @frightfest.bsky.social World bluray debut Sep 14 from Third Window Films thirdwindowfilms.com/films/crazy-...

Writing about anime is similarly close to writing about ancient religious texts. Do you want to cover the manga? The TV show? The rebooted TV Show? The Film? The gospels? The *other* gospels? Meanwhile, you are trying to find a new way to say, "it is fucking lit when the robot goes BZZZZZRRRR"

For the last 7 months I've been working on my first zine. It's coming along nicely. 20+ pages devoted to the early years of sound animated short subjects. Coming later 2026.

The coolest movie of all time

largest rodent@capybaroness.bsky.social · 5d ago

if you've been enjoying The Prisoner on Criterion Channel, might i recommend Tsui Hark's first american feature Double Team starring JCVD and Dennis Rodman, the middle act of which is a loving homage to the show where Van Damme is trapped in Not The Village

I had something unexpected come up today & my essay on The Adolescence of Utena probably won't be published until tomorrow. I apologize for it being late. I'm juggling a lot of things right now.

Been VERY hard keeping news of this Jodo box under wraps, but its now on pre-order from old mates at Umbie. Includes critical extras from @joshnelsonfilm.bsky.social @bjcolangelo.bsky.social @sabinastent.bsky.social @mdconterio.bsky.social + more, and my brand new video essay on Santa Sangre!

Alejandro Jodorowsky Collector’s Edition

Across these films, sacred and profane imagery collide in dazzling tableaux; myths are broken apart and reassembled; and every frame pulses with the director’s relentless pursuit of artistic and spiri...

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My husband has been working on this for a while now and it's very nearly finished. There's nothing he loves more than animation & this zine is a testament to that love. It's been very cool to watch him piece it together.

T. J. Dobbin@tjamesdobbin.bsky.social · 6d ago

For the last 7 months I've been working on my first zine. It's coming along nicely. 20+ pages devoted to the early years of sound animated short subjects. Coming later 2026.

would also like to casually recommend @willowcatelyn.bsky.social on evangelion if you're looking for some accompanying reading on the series and films :-)

"Neon Genesis Evangelion,” Episodes 1–4: The Trauma of Shinji Ikari

The first in a series of essays covering Hideaki Anno's landmark mecha-anime, which is finally globally available through streaming.

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Remember when I wrote about every single episode of Evangelion ten million years ago? I cannot remember anything that I said in these essays, and I'm a better writer now, but I'm sure they're fine. mubi.com/en/notebook/...

Willow Catelyn Maclay@willowcatelyn.bsky.social · 6d ago

All of the film crit dolls should get together and write an anthology book on Evangelion. It would be insufferable and amazing

All of the film crit dolls should get together and write an anthology book on Evangelion. It would be insufferable and amazing

Had a dream that I was in a run down bookstore and saw a zine with the title "Fucking While Listening to Portishead: A Zine About Fucking While Listening to Portishead".

been really struggling to get out of the financial hole of this last year. cancelling my trip isn't enough. i hate doing this, it is a one-time ask, but if any help is greatly appreciated. i will also post a handful of things to sell by the end of summer. www.venmo.com/u/CatherineS...

Been thinking about my relationship to Kavinsky's music since Gaga remixed Nightcall with her omnipresent hit Die With a Smile for Mayhem's final bow. I found it very moving for reasons of my relationship with both artists dating back to my initial coming out in 2011 www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAbR...

Lady Gaga: “Die With A Smile“ (Live Performance) | MAYHEM Requiem | Apple Music Live

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