Lina Rodriguez

“Wanda I mean obviously not just because it's about a woman trying to find her place but also like I guess I'm always attracted to women who subvert their fate but also Wanderers so Wanda will be in my yes pile for sure.”

“I mean I think Gene Tierney and Leave Her to Heaven is such a magnetic tragic but also moving character to watch. Movies where women are struggling with their monstrous sides is something that I find really inspiring so we have Wanda and Gene Tierney hanging out.”

“Céline Sciamma's Portrait of a Lady on Fire. I mean not only the performances on this film but just the visual grammar. I don't know that many people who have used shot reverse shot in a way that it's like sure it's spatial and maybe it's geographical... But in the context of the desire and connection and bond between these two women looking at how a woman looks at another woman... The women singing around the fire as like witches.”

“So I mean I love all of Fassbinder's films and we have a bunch of them, but, Eight Hours Don't Make a Day kind of like marks his melodrama, but he was like a soap opera and he has like this softness,, that is a little bit different from some of his other films, yet it has this, I don't know, like critical and very awake perspective on, on German society as a whole. It's a tender film, but I think in like, in tenderness actually,, in English that word tender means when you've been hurt...”

“Oh, Flowers of Shanghai. Just Hou Hsiao-hsien's, just like the glow and the sort of like lingering sort of like delirious camera work but just how he gets us close to these two characters and this sort of like impossible love.”

“And I did see Exotica and I don't want to leave Adam Egoyan. Speaking of impossible love, just Adam's Exotica. I mean Adam is a filmmaker who both in his cinema but in his personality is someone who I find just really inspiring and just I think his interest in damaged souls, something that I found really inspiring. This is a beautiful artwork for this.”

“Yes,, Bo Widerberg, I'm probably mispronouncing it, it's a Swedish filmmaker. The only film here that I've seen is Raven's End, and it's about this man who's trying to be a writer and he lives in a working class setting, so I'm looking forward to the other films that he made because I think there is harshness but a softness, like there's a sort of like a humanist approach and a way to look at things poetically but also looking at things sort of straight up, like directly.”