Recently I've been enjoying: 'Carol' by Patricia Highsmith, 'The Aviator's Wife' by Éric Rohmer, 'Metropolis' by Osamu Tezuka, 'Keep Your Cool' by Riley, 'The Winter's Tale' by William Shakespeare and 'Psychonauts' by Double Fine.

esmé book shelf, sans the books im currently reading

got some good sleep for the first time in a week plus :D

goat would never

i guess so lol, apparently @esmesays.bsky.social and i hold practically the same space

I regret to inform you that “1979” by Smashing Pumpkins was released in 1996, which is now 30 years ago. Meaning a similar song released in 2026 would be called “2009”

To hold myself to reading more this year, I'm making a thread of every book I finish. And if by the end of the year there are only, like, eight, I will be very embarrassed.

my ballot for yanco's "greatest" shorts films of all time list (the quotation mark are theirs, not mine, and very much welcomed) link to the full list: yanco.be/en/greatest-...

tatsuki fujimoto, I understand you, I could fix you

in the library, catching up on my life

movies

I’m writing a screenplay, please help me make it when it’s finished

Sabrina Carpenter… nice

beautiful woman. not a great filmography as of right now.

my dream is to be bluesky famous

I watched the first episode of The Pitt yesterday, and it was so profoundly normal. I sort of get why people are into it, especially if you're adjusting to the standards of modern TV, but to me it was the kind of show that might be on at an aunt's house that would I would kind of pay attention to.

say it with me now: Bor Zay Ghee 🤓

Rome: Ruins of the Forum, Looking towards the Capitol https://www.wikiart.org/en/canaletto/rome-ruins-of-the-forum-looking-towards-the-capitol-1742

nw, a john ford gangster picture:

i wanna watch a movie

I'm really fascinated by the uneasy backgrounds in many Sandro Botticelli paintings, their too-perfect straight line perspective and their affectless sheen feel so strange, almost uncomfortable. A quality made more textual in de Chirico's work some four hundred year later.

giving shadow ticket another go after not really getting into it last time (during a very stressful time where i couldn’t really focus, but)

saw twin peaks: fire walk with me for the third time in a year tonight, kind of not feeling like seeing it again, but, at the end of the day, it’s such a good movie that never feels less fresh.

After watching just a few episodes of Siskel and Ebert one thing becomes clear: both of these men, but especially Ebert, are completely insane.

watched siskel & ebert has really clarified my understanding of mainstream cinema of the past. maybe movies looked a little better in 1997, but they were also all about a little boy with a broken leg/a mental or physical disability/cancer who teaches something important to a broken nuclear family.

basically blocked from posting about this account on twxtter, so please retweet and help me find my friends on here please!

filling in some gaps in eastwood’s filmography

singing songs:ohia in the shower, willing myself out of this sickness

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movies I watched recently

Reclaiming the trash filmmaker and trans icon from an era that couldn’t comprehend his shape-shifting forms of self-identification. Ed Wood Jr and the pain of pronouns: lwlies.com/in-praise-of...

Love this essay by @esmesays.bsky.social on a topic that gave me much cause for thought and questioning while writing my Ed Wood book lwlies.com/in-praise-of...

girl who just got fired: hi

little esmé, a tragedy in three parts

thanks for all the kind words and tears. i feel like i say this every other essay but this really is my most personal work yet, and it's beautiful to see that resonating with so many people.

i got my hormones shot #woman

"But it feels impossible to sit in the cold indifference of death, you can’t help but scramble through what’s left behind sometimes."

i wrote the programme notes for this screening tomorrow :)

as a great lover of crying, i’m glad i can write stuff that makes some people cry

"to truly acknowledge that she was alive is to admit that she has taken her reasons with her." - this is breathtaking, thank you for writing it Esmé

great song to jam out to while awkwardly trying to shaving your legs in the shower open.spotify.com/track/3flk6L...

sorry to my uber driver who had to listen to me drunkenly ramble to him about chantal akerman last night

wonderful piece right here:

From Holden’s article: “I couldn’t find what I was looking for; the pieces no longer seemed to fit together.” Been feeling this way a lot recently. One of the lines in No Home Movie that has stuck with me is “I want to show that there is no more distance in the world.”

This is a really great piece and a subject that’s not oft addressed in discussions of Akerman.

for @lwlies.com i wrote about chantal akerman and trying to make sense of losing someone to suicide. the way we look through the things left behind like clues, to try and tell a story that makes sense of the senseless, one that we can never quite find. lwlies.com/articles/mak...

I'm so privileged to work with writers like Esmé who trust LWL with their stories – this is a beautiful, intimate reflection on the questions we're left with after someone dies by suicide, and the way we look for meaning in the senseless. A wonderful response to Akerman's bracing work.