a film that understands how great dancing at a party can feel

I typically see Ifa depicted in Nollywood movies with wicked sound effects and Animorphy SFX - it was interesting to see it practiced (and critiqued!) in Bahia, Cinema Novo.

The ritual scenes and their almost tantric dancing were hypnotic. I loved the kissing on the beach scenes. Trying to get one Yemanja's children killed is buckwild but a bold way to the test faith, superstition, and will of your fishing village neighbors

Will put this on at a party

it's all still reverberating through me:

Oppenheimer's thumbprint on the rest of human history, the insidiousness of new weaponry and war, the berkely commmunist intelligentsia and the cost of their supposed 'unamericaness,' jean tatlock's words about 'not alienating the people that love you,' the hubris of men who are desperate to top each other and call it 'brilliance'

the massive sounds and unspurling atoms and particles, the capacity we have to destroy each other for sport

geriatric mission impossible, yes please.

we should make more movies about people older than 55. being youth obsessed as a film culture means we get great coming-of-age films and movies about being twenty in this or that metropolitan city

how does it feel to be 84 and horny? or 77 and resentful your family's taking you to a nursing home? or 92 and horny for the nursing home and their myriad of craft based activities and melon spread

lets find out filmmakers