Michelle

@applynorules

Trans woman 🏳️‍⚧️ Communist hag in Chicago DSA who likes movies. Rules Don’t Apply fan account.

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Michelle@applynorules· 4d

The other day I was watching Frederick Wiseman’s Aspen and l lost it at the Gary Busey-looking art teacher telling all these old rich people to “draw the Warhols” of Mao

Michelle@applynorules· 11d

“Sexually suggestive” label for the Splendor screenshot lmao

Previous post, labeled as “sexually suggestive” for a photo from Splendor of a woman cuddling with two men, Bluesky you’re a bunch of dorks

Michelle@applynorules· 11d

Also I forgot to do June: -Central Park -Raise the Red Lantern -Fearless Hyena -Splendor -Thirst

Michelle@applynorules· 11d

Best new-to-me movies of July: -The Cranes Are Flying -Dishonored -Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma -Girlfriends -Rachel, Rachel -Mr. Deeds Goes to Town -The Informer -Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton's Cafeteria

Michelle@applynorules· 13d

I’ve been sick since Wednesday and it’s led to many plans I had this week being postponed or canceled

Alfred Hitchcock holding a large letter “L”

Michelle@applynorules· 13d

Good morning

A tortoiseshell cat sleeps on her back on top of a comforter

Michelle@applynorules· 15d

Hey all, my girlfriend could use some help. She had to take three weeks off work following getting her tonsils out and having to have emergency surgery following a complication, please chip in if you can (here’s a pic of her adorable cat Hummus for you) Venmo: @strawbs137 Cash App: $strawbs137

A white and grey cat sits in a cat tree, staring at the camera

Michelle@applynorules· Jun 30

I’m getting pretty tired of the “lifelong Catholics vs. converts” shit. Like 2/3 of one side of my family is probably as or more out there than your average convert.

Bullshit post that I’m getting tired of seeing: “Every lifelong Catholic I've ever met is like "I think we're supposed to give this food to poor people" and every adult convert is like "the Archon of Constantinople's epistle on the Pentacostine rites of the eucharist clearly states women shouldn't have driver's licenses."”

Quote tweet: “Vance: People hang out those hideous signs in their yard that say, "in this house we believe blah blah blah blah blah. You know, love is love, science is science, whatever. No person is illegal." That sign is such a disgusting butchering of the Nicene Creed”

Michelle@applynorules· Jun 29

when ur Chicago DSA but u make the PSL Chicago Insta video

Text: “Chicago Pride crowd erupts for socialists and Abolish ICE contingent”

A lot of cool queer people marching with anti-ICE signs, I’m in the center wearing red and white shorts, an orange tank top, with a towel draped over my shoulder. Sign is not really legible in this screenshot but reads “No ICE For This T”

Michelle@applynorules· Jun 27

From Hoberman’s “Make My Day” versus Fabelmans press tour. I don’t know when but somewhere along the way this sonovabitch was lying

Spielberg had been an abstinent member of the counterculture. “In my entire life I’ve probably smoked three joints,” he told Rolling Stone in 1978. Spielberg’s drug experiences were largely vicarious

“Well, having never been stoned, I don’t see them as stoner movies,” he quipped to Variety reporter Marc Malkin. Dropping a nod to Rogen’s character in Superbad, Spielberg added, “I see them as movies about a police officer giving solid, sound advice to an impressionable person.”

Michelle@applynorules· Jun 11

rare day where I have to go in the office and the CTA has offered a snack, I passed but if anyone wants some Lunchable Oreos they’re on the Red Line

A near-empty Lunchables container with Oreos on a seat on the Red Line

Michelle@applynorules· Jun 1

Best new-to-me films in May: Satantango Female Prisoner #701: Scorpion Utamaro and His Five Women Shinjuku Boys I Want Your Sex

Michelle@applynorules· May 7

sorry to hear this, hope things look up soon, here are some cat pics

A tortoiseshell cat, Joni, stealing my seat, a wooden chair with a wicker seat

A very sleepy tortoiseshell cat, Joni, opens her eyes as I try to get a photo of her lying on a red pillow

Michelle@applynorules· May 7

ya girl is seeing her favorite movie of all time in a theater

Michelle@applynorules· May 1

Best new-to-me films of April: -Vengeance is Mine (1984) -Near Death -The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser -The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner -Flesh for Frankenstein -Blood for Dracula -Cobra Verde -maɬni—towards the ocean, towards the shore -Heart of Glass -The Apostle (1997)

Michelle@applynorules· Apr 9

Got wistful thinking about how often Jim and I talked about this one

Reds and Warren Beatty in general were both favorite topics of conversation between me and my late friend Jim Gabriel, who regaled me with the story of seeing the film in theaters when he was young and the huge impact it had on him. Watching it for the first time since his passing in 2023, I couldn’t help but get teary-eyed listening to the remembrances of all the Witnesses of these long-since-past events and people, and wishing I could talk with Jim about it again.

Michelle@applynorules· Apr 9

seeing this on film >

A central theme in Warren Beatty’s work as star/producer-turned-writer/director is what happens when romantic, political or personal ideals meet a hostile or more complicated reality, and how that lays bare all their characters’ flaws and failures. It’s less a rejection of the believer than recognition that the circumstances that shape their fortunes are often contingent and beyond their control, and how quickly time leaves them by. This obsession, further explored later in Bulworth and my beloved Rules Don’t Apply, is best articulated in Reds.

The domestic arguments between the two are not disconnected from the political bull sessions and internecine arguments, they’re a reflection of how each relationship (personal or political, individual or collective) is a series of navigations of often conflicting needs and interests. I find the parallel between their attempts to reject traditional social expectations and their belief in the revolution especially effective, as I don’t think the film simply rejects these things as impossible and foolhardy. Instead, it takes these ideas and convictions seriously while showcasing the gulf between what we envision for ourselves and what happens in practice

The use of documentary interviews (“Witnesses”) as a sort of Greek chorus only further underscores the film’s deceptive slipperiness. The presence of Hugo Gellert, George Jessel, Henry Miller et al gives the film a greater texture and historical perspective, but their perspectives are limited, useful but also usefully imperfect on a thematic and formal level. Witnesses contradict each other and themselves, misremember things, praise or bury Reed, and often work as an ironic counterpoint to what we actually see or simply as another voice in Reds’ choir of contrasting interests. Dirty old Miller is especially funny and sometimes incisive, but are we meant to take his contention that “a guy who’s always interested in the condition of the world and chancing it has no problems or refuses to face them” at face value? No more than we’re meant to take Eugene O’Neill’s analysis of Jack and Louise at face value, I’d wager

Michelle@applynorules· Mar 25

Before I came out I used to say that this one had me dead to rights other than the “daughter” part lmao

The Onion article

Headline: Cool Dad Raising Daughter On Media That Will Put Her Entirely Out of Touch With Her Generation

photo: a dad giving his daughter a copy of Taking Heads “Remain In Light” on vinyl which yes of course I have

Michelle@applynorules· Mar 1

Best new-to-me films in February: Lost in America A Different Image Raw Deal (1948) The Company Send Help Multi-Handicapped

Michelle@applynorules· Feb 1

New releases: Marty Supreme The Testament of Ann Lee The Secret Agent If I Had Legs I’d Kick You Highest 2 Lowest Nouvelle Vague

screenshot from Marty Supreme, a smirking Timothee Chalamet in a robe and glasses talks into a wired black phone

screenshot from The Testament of Ann Lee, a room of people in 18th century English clothing dances with Amanda Seyfried at the center

screenshot from The Secret Agent, Wagner Moura surrounded by three shady guys in front of a yellow phone booth

screenshot from If I Had Legs I’d Kick You, A$AP Rocky holds a phone with the light on, a coffee cup and a joint and looks alarmed while staring upward, Rose Byrne stares up while wearing a t-shirt for the album “Cheap Thrills” by Big Brother and the Holding Company

Michelle@applynorules· Feb 1

Best new-to-me films in January: Joint Security Area Deaf Cafe Flesh Dr. Caligari We Won’t Grow Old Together The Plot Against Harry

screenshot from Joint Security Area, a Korean woman in Swiss military clothing leans forward over a seated Korean man in military clothing

screenshot from Deaf, a Black teenage boy with glasses and a hearing aid leans over homework while holding a marker while a white woman teacher reads in the background

screenshot from Cafe Flesh, a seated grouchy looking white man in a dark tank top stares at another seated white man in a black coat, who points toward an alarmed-looking white woman seated between them wearing a white top white hearts on it

screenshot from Dr. Caligari, a giant fleshy-looking door with a large mouth and protruding tongue towers over a seated white woman in a yellow tank top and underwear touching the tongue

Michelle@applynorules· Jan 30

when there’s too many bones in the bouillabaisse for you

screenshot from We Won’t Grow Old Together, a bald man tells the dinner table “Too many bones in the bouillabaisse for me.”

Michelle@applynorules· Dec 2

Best new-to-me films in November: Bless Their Little Hearts Long Day’s Journey Into Night (2018) Ashes of Time The Store It Was Just an Accident The Mastermind Blue Moon Die My Love Love Letters PTU As Tears Go By and it’s a miniseries but I also loved Over the Garden Wall