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Violet Burns @violetshrieks.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

I’m literally sobbing at how beautiful my first ever blu-ray contribution looks. Many thanks to 88 Films for this transcendently gorgeous release of Mika Ninagawa’s HELTER SKELTER 🩸

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Violet Burns @violetshrieks.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

humiliating that this is the one who’s successfully manipulating me with classical conditioning mind games

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Violet Burns @violetshrieks.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

it’s spring break. you know what that means

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Violet Burns @violetshrieks.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

screaming crying throwing up. finally seeing ALPHA after teaching my last class the moment spring break starts

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Violet Burns @violetshrieks.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

I'm very touched by this shoutout to my essay in @fcsyndicate.bsky.social 's review of @88films.bsky.social gorgeous release of Mika Ninagawa's HELTER SKELTER

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Violet Burns @violetshrieks.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Beyond thrilled to have my first ever booklet essay in @88films.bsky.social long-awaited western physical release of Mika Ninagawa's extravagant HELTER SKELTER!

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Violet Burns @violetshrieks.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

finally getting into the last two episodes of THE CREEP TAPES. I haven’t been ready for them to end

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Violet Burns @violetshrieks.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

this white-knuckle Brazilian thriller reckoning with the harms wrought by deeply entrenched class relations feels extra relevant right now. you won’t regret it PROPERTY (2022)

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Violet Burns @violetshrieks.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

KILLERS (2014) A TALE OF TWO SISTERS (2003)

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Violet Burns @violetshrieks.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

MOTHER JOAN OF THE ANGELS (1961)

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Violet Burns @violetshrieks.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

TITANE must have its own post to reflect my reverence for my prophet and savior Julia Ducournau

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Violet Burns @violetshrieks.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

2008, what a year EDEN LAKE (2008) MARTYRS (2008)

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Violet Burns @violetshrieks.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

CRASH (1996) NORIKO’S DINNER TABLE* (*Sion Sono is a terrible person, so please don’t buy this. it is, however, free on YT, or was recently)

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Violet Burns @violetshrieks.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Hideaki Anno’s SHIKI-JITSU / RITUAL (2000) is probably my favorite film of all time, gun to my head

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Violet Burns @violetshrieks.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Verhoeven’s BENEDETTA Park Chan-wook’s THIRST (2009)

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Violet Burns @violetshrieks.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

BE MY CAT: A FILM FOR ANNE DOGTOOTH

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Violet Burns @violetshrieks.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Gakuryū Ishii’s AUGUST IN THE WATER (1995) DAY NIGHT DAY NIGHT (2006) IN MY SKIN (2002) EXHIBIT A (2007) (clustering them to not clog anyone’s feed with my antics. idk how these things work here yet)

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Violet Burns @violetshrieks.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

this feels gauche, but any takers?

for every like, I’ll post a film I love!

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Violet Burns @violetshrieks.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

this went to levels of gut-punch realism I wasn’t expecting from the initial framing

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Violet Burns @violetshrieks.bsky.social · 01/04/2024

early French polyphony from the high Middle Ages is keeping my synapses vaguely functional

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Violet Burns @violetshrieks.bsky.social · 08/10/2023

I’ve been recommended THE DEAD CENTER several times, so I think tonight’s the night

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Violet Burns @violetshrieks.bsky.social · 07/10/2023

just screaming things in my head like “holy shit Alexia is the lion, the lamb, and the madonna”

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Violet Burns @violetshrieks.bsky.social · 07/10/2023

if anyone needs me, I’ll be watching the car show oner from TITANE on repeat

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Violet Burns @violetshrieks.bsky.social · 24/09/2023

ASHKAL is a gorgeously shot, slow-burn neo-noir from Tunisia worth your time

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Violet Burns @violetshrieks.bsky.social · 21/09/2023

The “car fucking movie! Shocking and craaaaaazy!” TITANE discourse did it such a disservice when it came out Even though I remembered how emotionally it struck me on first viewing, memories of those reductive takes kept me from revisiting it for way too long. There is SO much going on thematically