I’m in awe.
This is 1970s cinematography at its best!
I feel like I just visited Spain, & it’s better than IRL.
Such a strange & wonderful story, right on the edge of a fairytale, but too bittersweet to actually be one.
I hope someday to see this in an actual theater, as it was originally intended.
Did Pakula make any bad films? I doubt it. I haven’t seen them all but plan to.

RIP Dame Maggie Smith (Downton Abbey theme song fades out… and, scene.)

DOCx52 2026
prompt 44: Watch a documentary from the 1960's

Polished & square (draw 🔲 in the air with index fingers), this documentary short presents the perfection of what Seventeen Magazine wanted teenage girls to be (in order to sell them magazines; & also; so the magazine could sell advertising to retailers).

It’s a skewed time capsule, but interesting nonetheless. I didn’t much care for the clothes-styling, but did enjoy the bits of home interiors from the time. The doc also features a 17ish year old Mia Farrow.

CW:
racist & sexist 

watched for free on the National Film Preservation Foundation website here

MD’s Summerween Challenge 
prompt 3: Watch a Found Footage movie that was released between The Blair Witch Project and Paranormal Activity

For Rollins fans (🙋‍♀️), this is perfection!

Enjoyably type-cast, with a vintage look (created by the focus & colors (which enhanced the “truth” of the story)), the film adhered to the mocumentary found footage genre while not being annoying about it. I recommend going in blind because there’s a fun slow reveal twist.

watched for free on YouTube here