St. Vincent

“I think I'm going to start with John Waters classic Female Trouble. This is the best thing in the world. John Waters forever.”

“Oh, do we have The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant? We do indeed. Oh my God. Okay, so this film, first of all, it takes place all in one set and the set is perfection. She's Petra is on the bed and she's in love with this younger woman and she's just all kinds of everything. Behind her is this like blown up mural of this flower and it's just so grandiose and it's tragic, bless her, Petra, bless her, she's just looking for love.”

“Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown. Pedro, I love you, I love you, I love you so much. You know, when you see movies by people who like, I don't know, like love women, like love their mothers, you know, this is a gift. Like, he loves his Mother and I love that for him and for us.”

“To Die For, Gus Van Sant. This movie is so funny. Nicole Kidman is so fucking funny in this movie. She's psychotic. She is like icy and just about to crack. She is absolutely terrifying. I mean, even just like look at Nicole Kidman's face on the cover of this. There is some kind of through line happening here I'm realizing between John Waters and Pedro Almodóvar and Gus Van Sant and Fassbinder. It's a real like Pantheon of queer cinema.”

“I'm going to go I'm going to go Guy Maddin on this., this is I remember buying this film Brand Upon the Brain! At Kim's video in the East Village, circa two, who's counting?, this is like Guy Maddin is a freak. Just watching this black and white like Bizarro world that he creates., I've definitely ripped him off as well. It's wild. It's wild in that in that sort of like full dream state. What am I looking at? But you but it feels very intimate at the same time. You're like, oh, I kno...”

“Dazed and Confused, classic Richard Linklater film. I saw this movie so many times on a VHS in Dallas, Texas growing up. The soundtrack is so good. It's one of those movies where you feel sad when it's ending, like you feel like the party's over. You really feel like you don't want to leave the party. The final scene, the sun is rising and Lynyrd Skynyrd 'Tuesday's Gone' plays and it just breaks my heart.”

“I'm going to get this and it is Diamonds of the Night. I don't know this film. Okay, well fate led me here and I'm taking it.”

“Hey, can I take this Chantal Akerman? Can I take this? I want this, so I'm going to take it. You know why? Because I don't know her work and I should, that's why I'm taking it.”