#Recs based on my favorite movies?

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nova moat Oct 29, 2024, 8:21 PM

https://boxd.it/vbYIO

fav movies

static geyser Oct 31, 2024, 2:31 AM

an education!

ocean trail Oct 31, 2024, 3:33 AM

nova moat https://boxd.it/vbYIO

https://letterboxd.com/film/the-long-day-closes/

The Long Day Closes (1992)

Bud is a lonely and quiet boy whose moments of solace occur when he sits in rapture at the local cinema, watching towering and iconic figures on the movie screen. The movies give Bud the strength to get through another day as he deals with his oppressive school environment and his burgeoning homosexuality.

https://letterboxd.com/film/taipei-story/

Taipei Story (1985)

A young woman urgently seeks to navigate the maze of contemporary Taipei and find a future. She hopes that her boyfriend Lung is the key to the future, but Lung is stuck in a past that combines baseball and traditional loyalty that leads him to squander his nest egg bailing her father out of financial trouble.

https://letterboxd.com/film/lean-on-pete/

Lean on Pete (2017)

Charley Thompson, a teenager living with his single father, gets a summer job working for horse trainer Del Montgomery. Bonding with an aging racehorse named Lean on Pete, Charley is horrified to learn he is bound for slaughter, and so he steals the horse, and the duo embark on an odyssey across the new American frontier.

https://letterboxd.com/film/a-scene-at-the-sea/

A Scene at the Sea (1991)

A deaf garbage collector happens upon a broken and discarded surfboard. The discovery plants in him dreams of becoming a surf champion. Encouraged by his also deaf girlfriend, he persists against all odds.