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Lindsay Pugh

Lover of shitty romcoms, the Coney Island duck machine, and emotionally manipulative cats. You can find more of my writing at Seventh Row.

Film ⸱ Lindsay Pugh

'A New Leaf' (1971) by Elaine May

Vibe: Hysterically funny. I grew up watching Charlie Chaplin, W.C. Fields, and the Marx Brothers, so I knew this film would be right up my alley. Elaine May is a master of physical comedy and I laughed for at least five minutes during the scene where she was stuck
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'Wanda' (1970) by Barbara Loden

Vibe: I won't sugarcoat it: this film is incredibly depressing. If I had worse parents, I might be in a position similar to Wanda's right now. Thankfully, Jim & Joni Pugh encouraged me to get the fuck out of my sad hometown and do what makes
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'Raw' (2017) by Julia Ducournau

Vibe: Unsettling and difficult to categorize. "Raw" exists outside of reality in a "Twin Peaks" Season One kind of way. To enjoy it, you must completely suspend your disbelief and succumb to Julia Ducournau's fucked up, gloomy, alcohol-fueled world. You might find yourself running
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'Big' (1988) by Penny Marshall

Vibe: Heavily nostalgic. "Big" reminds me what it was like to be twelve-years-old and wanting so desperately to be independent from my parents even though I still loved and needed them. Twelve-years-old is right around the time when I realized, "Oh, shit... I shouldn't play
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'The Piano' (1993) by Jane Campion

Vibe: Like a Brontë novel come to life, "The Piano" is dark, Gothic romance at its best. It's a quiet, intensely emotional film, where everything is depressing and beautiful at the same time. As with many Jane Campion projects, it makes me want to immediately plan
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'Trouble Every Day' (2001) by Claire Denis

Vibe: Beautifully fucked up, but also kind of depressing depending on your read. There's been extensive debate about whether this film is horror, or auteurism parading as horror. (And to the scholars debating that point, I serve you up with 5,000 eye rolls but still read all
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'Everyone Else' (2009) by Maren Ade

Vibe: Unlike "The Forest for the Trees," "Everyone Else" is visually beautiful. Shot on lush 35mm on location in Sardinia, this movie feels more expensive than Ade's debut, even though I'm sure the budgets were comparable. If someone told me I could
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'The Forest for the Trees' (2003) by Maren Ade

Vibe: Lo-fi and depressing. Unlike "Orlando" (1992), "The Forest for the Trees" is not a visually stunning film; it's washed out, shot on handheld DV, and very obviously low-budget. But it works because the style and form perfectly serve the content. If Maren Ade
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'It's Complicated' (2009) by Nancy Meyers

Vibe: Like all Nancy Meyers movies, "It's Complicated" is the stuff lady boners are made of (or at least, this lady's boner)... house porn, high-powered jobs, adoring children, and oceanfront views. Jane (Meryl Streep) lives in a gorgeous, sprawling house in Santa Barbara (really
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'Orlando' (1992) by Sally Potter

Vibe: Opulent, cheeky, and fun as hell. I want to live inside of this movie. As a rule, I generally try not to see film adaptations of my favorite books because I've been burned in the past and don't feel like suffering through the disappointment. This
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'Prevenge' (2016) by Alice Lowe

Vibe: Supremely dark, with style cues taken from Dario Argento, Andrezej Zulawski, and Gasper Noé. I was also reminded of Peter and Paul from Michael Haneke's "Funny Games" (1997) during a few of the scenes where Ruth converses with the baby growing inside her. "Prevenge&
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'The Edge of Seventeen' (2016) by Kelly Fremon Craig

Vibe: This quote sums up the vibe quite nicely: My entire generation is a bunch of mouth breathers. They literally have a seizure if you take their phone away for a second, they can't communicate without emojis, and they actually think that the world wants to know that
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