You Have Been Watching Films
You Have Been Watching Films
Hello! My name is Olivia (she/her) and welcome to YHBWF, a channel dedicated to discussing a variety of films!
I'm a trans writer who loves films! YHBWF is where I post video essays exploring a variety of films with an academic and interpretive perspective. World, cult, experimental, documentary, classic and modern cinema is celebrated here to showcase the diversity of cinematic history, but I also focus on discussing different topics relating to cinema as well!
You Have Been Watching Films is an LGBTQ+ inclusive channel that will at times discuss social and political issues that some viewers may find uncomfortable.
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Excellent film!
what is gallows humor
The "Hells Angels" embarrassed themselves ! ! * This episode at the Altamont Speedway would haunt them for years to come... Everyone at the "Free Concert" would hate the "Hells Angels" for years... Some still do... * As for the song "Gimmie Shelter" would become a hit and the #1 song in Vietnam for Five ( 5 ) years in a row... Some say #1 song in Vietnam for Six ( 6 ) years in a row... That is saying something... Excellent video and commentary and very informative, and "Thank you" for sharing the video ! ! Excellent video... "Semper Fi" Mike in Montana P.S.: I will ( never ) forget the song, "Gimmie Shelter" and the tours in Vietnam and what this important song meant to us in Vietnam... :)
Good film! and a good companion to it is The Ornithologist, a retelling of the Saint Anthony story with less but not totally absent nudity.
What do you think about Tokyo Sonata? How do you feel it compares to Kiyoshi Kurosawa's other films? Which films would you recommend similar to Tokyo Sonata? Thanks for watching!
Should have been called “Let’s See What We Can Get Away With: The Movie”.
one of my favorite movies <3
Hey what's the opening track you use?
Hi, all of the music in my videos is my own. I usually work on the music the same time I'm writing each video, so this track is still new, but I'll be making it available to stream soon. If you enjoy the music in my videos, you can find a lot of my stuff anywhere you stream music, including Spotify: open.spotify.com/artist/4iCpMcoFFbVqEC5I36b8Kb?si=w03PDuLmRO2W2yf3jhwGSg 😁
There aren't many other movies that will leave that kind of an impact on you as Gummo will. Watched it for the first time 16-17 years ago and I'm still under impression.
Been meaning to watch this film for a while, guess I'll get around to doing it soon so I can watch this.
Please, do more film analysis videos about dreamy films
I'm always open to doing more videos on dreamy films, I love covering them on the channel. 😁
THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!! I am so happy you have finally made this. I have been thinking a lot about this film since I watched it
I'm glad you've enjoyed the video! 😁 I feel similarly, I saw it for the first time when preparing for this video and certain scenes are still lingering with me.
I watched this yesterday and it was just too weird to take seriously. Heinrich doing interpretive dance as he talks to the husband, the wife rolling around in a subway like a spaz - I know it was meant to capture the emotional turmoil or whatever but it was so bloody silly. Had to keep tweaking my volume as well; probably scared my neighbor with the animal screeches.
Despite the decay and deprevaty, Gummo is the most beautiful movie I've ever seen. To me, it is a masterpiece in all its disturbing textures. An intimate human sketchbook that is rarely seen, or maybe ignored by the rude gaze of niceties.
Erm, what the Stigma.
Another phenomenal video, keep it up Olivia!! Happy Together is one of my personal favorites!
Thank you 😁 Happy Together is one of my favourites too, and I hope I'll discuss more Wong Kar-wai films in the future too!
How do you feel about All About Lily Chou-Chou? Which films does it remind you of? Do you enjoy Shunji Iwai's other films? Which films would you recommend to those who loved All About Lily Chou-Chou? Thanks for watching!
This film traumatized me. I've come to the conclusion it is now my favorite movie, anything with that kind of power is ok with me.
LEONARDO TREVIGLIO 74 YEARS OLD
Again remember childhood Really masterpiece Russian cartoon
I haven't seen this particular one, but I do love the WKW style and so I'll cue it up for a watch soon. I'll be back to watch this video after I've seen the movie. Cheers
No worries, hope you enjoy it! 😁
This film would've been nominated for Oscars had it been release anytime in the past 10 years
Cool video! I like it when you throw in a different type now and again to mix it up (though your video essays are great too). I looked through my collection and I think my favorite cover is criterions box set of lone wolf and cub, they did a really beautiful job. A close second is the evil dead trap 2 that unearthed films has put out. Arrow also puts out reliably great cover art like you mentioned (although i don't have much arrow)! Also I think its really neat when the inserts are reversible covers so you can choose your favorite, I wish it was a more common thing. I know you shared some of your favorites, but do you have a number one all time favorite cover art in your collection?
Thank you! I've really enjoyed making different types of videos this year and I plan to keep doing that too. 😁 Ooh the Lone Wolf And Cub boxset is gorgeous, I know exactly the artwork you mean. I still plan on upgrading my DVD set to the Criterion blu-ray at some point! It's very hard to narrow down my all-time favourite artwork in my collection (I'm just very indecisive lol), but off the top of my head I'm thinking of Criterion's Showa era Godzilla boxset, where Godzilla is firing his radioactive breath. It just looks so bold and striking in that pop art print style! 😁
I wonder what happened to Wong Kar-Wai to make so many incredible movies about failed and troubled love. Multiple people must have hurt the poor man or he must have hurt so many hearts. My mom rented this and In The Mood For Love in the same weekend. I watched them with her and saw how they effected her so emotionally. I kinda knew she had stop carrying about dad years ago but want to stay together with him for me and my brother. Seeing her holding back tears at the end of both movies still resonates in my mind every now and then. I've rewatch Happy Together a few times over the years though it probably won't really effect me that much since I never really had a true romantic relationship. I've had people I've slept with and definitely been the non violent Po-Wing in a few when I was younger (I genuinely have a hard time physical harming anything) but I never really had a truely tender relationship in really any shape or form since I was a teenager. Even then I was completely in love with my straight best friend so, never really anything concrete in my eyes. With time and understanding of the hearts I've rendered and those who did it to me, even I can enjoy those few sweet moments of closeness in Happy Together even if they are checkered with scars. I absolutely love this movie. It's a bit rough on the eyes and heart but it is incredible.
I totally understand why this and In The Mood For Love impacted your mother in that way, I feel even at his most esoteric Wong Kar-wai really seems to evoke some very deeply held emotional scars. 🥲 From your description, it sounds like you've lived through something very similar romantically to In The Mood For Love. 😭 I'm glad to hear you can still appreciate the sweet moments of this film too though! I think it really reinforces the film's universal impact even if we don't share these experiences. 💖
i just watched this film and i rlly don’t know how to feel.. i sobbed for ages at the start and had to take a break. i also sobbed at the end of the film and now have a pounding headache. I relate to some of the themes in this film so it hurt me a lot and i think i need time to form a proper opinion because it brought up painful memories. although, i did like how the film showed how different people process traumas such as sexual abuse, and that it rlly does play into how a persons character is formed.
Snapshot is a good film along with I can't think straight great lesbian movies.
How do you feel about Happy Together? How would you compare it to Wong Kar-wai's other films? Which films would you recommend similar to Happy Together? Thanks for watching!
Gracias por este video sobre una de las mejores películas femeninas, para mi, de la historia del cine
Gracias por este video sobre cine europeo y sobre una de las mejores películas femeninas, para mi, del cine.
Man Bites Dog's cinematography is pure kino, the scene where Ben and his crew gets killed in the ending got me caught so by surprise
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Wonderful, as all of ur videos! c:
Thank you! ☺️
I so appreciate the kind words about my work on the Gamera set!! Love the video!
Thank you! It's so cool you saw my video! 😁
An absolute masterpiece. I saw it when first broadcast when I was 11. The end was simply terrifying. Now we are on the cusp of nuclear war as NATO pokes Russia through Ukraine.
Great video! I think my personal favorite is the criterion release of Repo Man. What did you think about the recent criterion Querelle cover? At first I didn’t like it, but now it’s kind of grown on me. It’s definitely eye catching and unique.
I love the Criterion cover of Repo Man, I kinda wish that artwork came with the UK release! 🥲 The Criterion art for Querelle is one of the few times I haven't quite liked their cover, the digitally rendered Brad Davis looks too uncanny for me, but I think the cover does catch the humidity and heat of the film well!
I saw The Royal Tenenbaums because the DVD had great cover art. It was the Criterion Collection, and instead of the poster art of the characters all standing around, it was an illustration of Ritchie Tenenbaum and his hawk Mordecai.
I love that cover, it's very sweet and fits so well with the film's style too 🥲
I'm sick of the dumbing down of cover art you too often see if it's not a boutique disc. Last week I printed out the proper cover for Under The Silver Lake. On this side of the pond we get the "pretty face" or "just standing there" cover that says nothing about the movie. Foolish of me to use plain paper though, I'm making them look like bootlegs!
I got Suspiria based on the DVD collectors edition steel case cover art about 25 years ago. Great find.
The Graveyard of Honor cover is phenomenal! It's so freaking cool! My dad got the Final Cut DVD of Blade Runner years ago which might still be my favorite movie cover out there. The illustration blending the city with the characters is just perfect. It's like how the city itself is just as important as the characters themselves. It's simple but I'm a massive fan of that 80s cyberpunk style so it just nails it so perfectly. The favorite cover artwork ever is probably either Enter the Matrix or the Myst series. Enter the Matrix's blank matrix code is mysterious and creepy and shows off why the matrix code is visual candy. The entire Myst series has box art showing one of the areas you'll explore which look other worldly and enchanting. Myst 4: Revelation's might be my favorite. The European cover is fine but the US cover feels like a fairytale.
Yeah I think so too, the Arrow releases on Kinji Fukasaku's films have these wonderful art pieces that feel gritty but also have a comic book quality about them that I love! Ohh I know the artwork you mean, I have the Final Cut DVD too, the city really is such a key element of that film. I love that retrofuturist cyberpunk aesthetic too. Enter The Matrix and the Myst series are good calls, I always loved how the Myst covers really gave the sense of a gently mysterious, mythical place. It just makes me all the more interested in exploring those areas! 😁
Just in time for the Arrow and B&N sale, I see.
I hadn't even considered that, what a coincidence! 😅
Do you have a favourite cover artwork? Did a great cover ever encourage you to pick up a film you'd never seen before? Which cover is your favourite in the video? Thanks for watching!
I showed this film to my theater class in 1996. Thanks!
Idk wtf this movie was about, but it was very pretty and well shot
incredible analysis. absolutely spot on <3
My favorite film.
In theory pornographic films have the overt aim of getting the viewer sexually aroused which tends to shut off all other perceptions and thoughts as the intensity of sexual desire takes over, thus potentially making for "bad art". On the other hand eroticism even in quite intense forms is quite legitimately present in art. I think it depends how far the arousal is taken, whether it goes to the extent of "shutting the brain off" where what follows is pure manipulation, even if that manipulation is desired. But for me a distancing must be maintained otherwise it's entertainment not art, no matter how elevated that entertainment might be. I guess it comes down to the idea that the enjoyment in art is partly from the hard work (thinking/experiencing) you put in to it, and wanking isn't really very hard work, is it?
Gotta wonder how many people have gone to watch "Los Angeles Plays Itself" only to get this instead... 🤣🤣🤣
I remember years ago seeing this in full on one of the old tube sites. Lots of the symbolism went right over my head but I do remember the whiplash between the beginning and the ending parts. It kinda reminded me of the suburban expansion of where I grew up and how me and a friend used to have some fun at a hidden part of a park by his house (without the extreme bdsm). By the end, I was watching because I genuinely was wondering if it really was going to end with a murder. All these years later and I still have the image of the fisting scene well in my mind. After becoming interested in photography and film history over the years, I kinda wanna rewatch this with a more mature and hopefully more knowledgeable eye.
Altered Innocence actually restored this film, Sextool and Sex Garage into HD too (I think their remasters came out a year or two ago now), so these Halsted films are easier to access now! Whiplash is a great way of referring to the film's 180 shift, the first time I saw this film it startled me how suddenly it changed.