Love Things

/ Masha Tupitsyn / Misc
Do people really understand that to have a show where people say, express, and show love is already enough?

Feeling, Talk

/ Masha Tupitsyn / Misc
Most of the men I’ve been with romantically talk a lot less than I do.

Merge Love With Knowledge

/ Masha Tupitsyn / Misc
Streisand is smarter than to simply give us the ending we want and crave.

Day Off

/ Masha Tupitsyn / Misc
The insane beauty and charm of Matthew Broderick in Ferris Bueller

The Next Best Thing to a Church in Italy

/ Masha Tupitsyn / Misc
Finally at home. Sitting in front of a fan like an old man on a stoop.

Exhaustive and Relentless

Writing Can’t Live in Writing

In the Late 90s

/ Masha Tupitsyn / Misc
In the late 90s, I got a video camera and lived with my boyfriend in Provincetown during the summer.

Not Pretending

/ Masha Tupitsyn / Misc
Rewatched The Fury. No one understood angles like De Palma.

The Other Side of Mistrust

/ Masha Tupitsyn / Misc
“I don’t trust anybody but you.” A line that has always resonated with me.

The Too Much and the Too Little

/ Masha Tupitsyn / Misc
Teaching Moonstruck today and relating it to the question of productive frustration in love. Why we need to be frustrated before we can love.

Wanted to Say Hi

Will and Representation

/ Masha Tupitsyn / Misc
The best part about making work is to talk to the work of others.

Spend the Night

/ Masha Tupitsyn / Misc
If we can’t learn to live with and love being frustrated by the person we love, then it is because we are too busy “loving” not ever being close enough to anyone or anything to be changed or touched by it.

Where’s Corpus?

Hard, Warm

Female Sexual Independence

/ Masha Tupitsyn / Misc
The “crime” at the center of the film is just a cover for the problem of female sexual independence.

Doors & Dragons

/ Masha Tupitsyn / Misc
Stranger Things is about how kids are the only true rebels/lovers left.

Sudden Invitation to Coffee

/ Masha Tupitsyn / Misc
After so much time has passed, you hear a voice. You hear my voice. But you don’t listen.

Arrested by the First Loss

/ Masha Tupitsyn / Misc
Melancholy is about the loss of desire. The loss of the desire to do something about desire.

Same Question

/ Masha Tupitsyn / Misc
By your response to danger it is easy to tell how you have lived and what has been done to you.

Lost in Loss

/ Masha Tupitsyn / Misc
Every time I reread Freud’s Mourning & Melancholia, I understand it—the pathology of male melancholy—in a new way.

Loving, Losing

/ Masha Tupitsyn / Misc
Perhaps, rather, one mourns when one accepts that by the loss one undergoes one will be changed, possibly forever.

Gornick for Pleasure

/ Masha Tupitsyn / Misc
Drunk in the middle of the afternoon while prepping my class and reading Vivian Gornick for pleasure.

Empath and Psychic

/ Masha Tupitsyn / Misc
The way heartbreak, time, fate, and second sight converge and play out in this scene from The Dead Zone, beginning @4:41 min.

Badii Asks

/ Masha Tupitsyn / Misc
Badii asks everyone a lot of questions—a major sign of life.

Any Faith in Men

/ Masha Tupitsyn / Misc
Taking screenshots of time-montages in The Way We Were for TIME TELLS. The movie always makes me cry.

That Terrible Doorframe

/ Masha Tupitsyn / Misc
The realization of gaslighting is the secret/real horror of Rosemary’s Baby.

Too Many Eyes

/ Masha Tupitsyn / Misc
If you died my world would blur. I wouldn’t know what a tree was.

Look at Computers All Day and All Night

/ Masha Tupitsyn / Misc
In an interview, Prince stated that the body wasn’t meant to take in constant media.