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Tris Arthur
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I make movies and talk about different ones on YouTube | Intimacy Coordinator & Video Editor in NYC | she/they

Professional Site: trisarthur.com
YouTube: https://youtube.com/@tristalksmovies?si=QHqSCPubIaAVwN1O
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My roommate getting the authentic Skyrim experience trying to build their character
The character customization screen of Slyrim is displayed on a TV. The in-game camera is clipped into the head of a horse, blocking the view of the player character.
March 17, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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This is how I know Conclave will win Best Picture
February 25, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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Realizing that the composer of one of my favorite scores from last year DID get Oscar nominated, just not for the film I wish it was for
Still from Chicken for Linda! Still from Emilia Pérez
January 25, 2025 at 6:01 AM
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Drive-Away Dolls getting nothing at the Dorian Awards is a crime against lesbians everywhere 😔
Still from Drive-Away Dolls, in which the two female leads look, with bewilderment, into a metal suitcase.
January 18, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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Wdym the Robbie Williams CGI monkey musical biopic is bombing...

(seriously though it's actually so good and you should watch it)
Still from Better Man, in which CGI monkey Robbie Williams looks teary-eyed at a blurred figure in the foreground.
January 11, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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After a not insignificant amount of time I am FINALLY (mostly) done editing the new video. Should be up on Monday!

This is probably the closest thing I've done to making a "new film" since I graduated from film school, and I'm proud of what it's amounted to. Very niche, but I think pretty neat!
Screenshot of a very dense Premiere Pro editing timeline.
January 11, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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Sure the Globes just happened, but I'm still riding off the high of seeing Better Man this afternoon.

Soooo much better than I ever expected (and I didn't even really know who the guy was until a few months ago). Watch it like a new blockbuster musical! Have fun!

#filmsky
Still from Better Man, in which CGI monkey Robbie Williams stands on stage in a black & white suit, arms outstretched.
January 6, 2025 at 4:42 AM
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Finally got around to Kneecap last night and it must be said: this film is like the antithesis of every problem I had with The Brutalist.

BIG, LOUD, BOLD, IMPORTANT messaging. A film that isn't afraid to speak its mind plainly enough that there's no room for debate.

Free Palestine!

#filmsky
A still from Kneecap, in which the titular Irish rap trio stands on stage, lights beaming behind them, looking out at their fans.
January 5, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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Started the year with Juror #2, which I kind of had a blast with.

I'll never say no to a good juicy drama and this delivered! More like this, please!

#filmsky
Still from Juror #2, in which Nicholas Holt looks vaguely towards the camera while sitting among 11 other jurors in a court room.
January 2, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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Update, Re: just saw The Brutalist...

I'm left someone startled by how unwieldily it handles its messaging around Israel and how absolutely no one is talking about it. A film with impeccable crafts that go towards messaging I find myself deeply conflicted by. That ending doesn't help :/
January 1, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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Spending New Years Eve sitting in a theater for 4 hours watching The Brutalist on 70mm.

Can't wait!
Still from The Brutalist, in which two men embrace in front of what appears to be an old bus.
December 31, 2024 at 4:43 PM
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Have played more games this year than I have in quite awhile and I think my games of the year have to be UFO 50 and Caves of Qud.

Both are so fundamentally innovative while maintaining a beautiful simplicity to their design. I suspect both will go down as sleeper legends!
Principle game art for UFO 50, featuring many cartoon-ish character illustrations. Screenshot from Caves of Qud, featuring low-bit pixel art on an isometric grid.
December 27, 2024 at 6:08 PM
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Pulled a somewhat insane triple-feature today with IBELIN, THE PIANO LESSON and HOT FROSTY.

The joys of end-of-year movie catch-up
Still from The Remarkable Life of Ibelin, depicting two World of Warcraft avatars sitting together on a picnic mat. Still from The Piano Lesson. A young Black girl has her hand guided across the wooden engravings on an old piano by her uncle. Still from Hot Frosty. A white woman holds a red scarf up to a strangely-muscular, very detailed snowman.
December 22, 2024 at 4:30 AM
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Honorable mention because I was really tossed between him or Chaplin...
Princess Mononoke by Hayao Miyazaki
December 18, 2024 at 6:12 PM
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My 4 favorite movies from my 4 favorite directors #filmsky
The Young Girls of Rochefort by Jacques Demy Vive L'Amour by Tsai Ming-liang Portrait of a Lady on Fire by Celine Sciamma The Great Dictator by Charlie Chaplin
December 18, 2024 at 6:12 PM
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WOW, I just watched CHICKEN FOR LINDA! and it's a genuine crime this isn't being talked about as one of the year's best films.

Beautifully expressive animation, some of the best music of the year, and a story that knows how to bring so much heart out of such a simple premise. Watch it! 📽
Still from "Chicken for Linda!" in which a young girl colored fully in yellow smiles at her mother, drawn in orange, holding a plate of food. People dot the background in abstract, colored forms, and an apartment block rises up in the background.
December 17, 2024 at 5:16 PM
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Having a great time doing some end-of-year movie catch-up with my roommate the past few days:

Strange Darling was a good time, Dahomey was effectively inventive, and Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person was maybe the most Quebecois film I've ever seen (positive)
Still from Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person. A young white female vampire cautiously touches her fang. Still from Dahomey. A Black male museum curator examines an ancient Dahomey statue featuring a flexing human body with the head of a fish. Still from Strange Darling. A white man in a red and black flannel holds a shotgun, pointed down, as he wanders through the forest.
December 16, 2024 at 12:31 AM
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Getting quite excited about my next video! Feels like I'm returning to filmmaking while still working within the video essay format. It's nice to feel genuinely inspired by something I'm making again :)

📽 Scrapped thumbnail draft below:
Orange background with large white negative space filling the center. The negative space forms the rough outline of shoulders and a neck. In the negative space, orange vector art of a city skyline lines the bottom. The center holds text reading: "do you feel manipulated yet?" It is repeated three times with different words accented in orange on each repetition. They read: "you feel manipulated." Against the orange background is white vector art of: a bike, the YouTube logo, a mug, a form, and the letters "a" and "c".
December 15, 2024 at 6:16 PM
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Pretty blown-away by Flow. Wasn't quite anticipating how poetic it'd be, but the final act swept me away and left me in a deep state of melancholy. Still thinking about it.
Still from the movie Flow, in which a black cat floats in what seems like an ethereal blue abyss. It's large round eyes stare at us as the darkness of the sea creeps around the edges of the image, swallowing up the brightly-illuminating sunlight at the center.
December 8, 2024 at 4:29 AM
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(light spoilers) Has it been long enough for us to talk about how Venom: The Last Dance ends with a literal Venom-Eddie fancam
Venom, poking awkwardly out of Eddie's back, stares at a dirty, disgruntled Eddie in the middle of the desert.
December 7, 2024 at 4:23 PM
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May seem small, but I've been needing a win and yesterday I got one!

This is the first somewhat sizable success I've had with the channel, and the hope is that things can snowball from here. Either way, those big ambitions are feeling a little more possible today :)
YouTube stats for "Tris Talks Movies," showing "131 total subscribers" beside the following profile picture: a digital illustration of a white woman with shoulder-length brown hair and dots for eyes. She wears a blue collared shirt, and strips of film stick out of her hair. YouTube statistics showing "1,798 Views" on a real-time 48 hour view count.
November 18, 2024 at 5:04 PM
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Feels like this year was somewhat slow in giving me those one-to-remember film experiences (TV Glow & Sing Sing aside), but recently have been pretty struck by Nickel Boys and A Real Pain.

Saw the latter today and there's just something in its methodology that really worked for me. #filmsky
A still from the film Nickel Boys, in which two Black teenage boys look up at themselves in the glass reflection of a segmented outdoor ceiling, propped up by a visible supporting rod. The boys wear matching blue uniforms. We see them through the reflection, as if we are looking through their eyes as they look at themselves. A still from the film A Real Pain. Two white male cousins—one in bright red shorts and a patterned hoodie, the other in jeans, a white t-shirt, glassss, and a blue button-up with only one upper button buttoned—walk through a vivid green park with sunlight providing warmth to the image. The one in red shorts has his arms tightly around the others' head. As a result, the one in jeans leans somewhat awkwardly into his cousin as they walk forward. Blurred in the foreground, two more men walk forward down the same path.
November 13, 2024 at 2:31 AM
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And here goes... my first complete #pixelart piece! Honestly didn't know I had this in me! Jumped into this a bit blind after doing some basic #Aseprite practice and couldn't have dreamed I'd end up so proud of it :)

(It's also the new banner for my YouTube channel where I talk about movies!)
A pixel-art piece in which a woman sits in a pink cafe, relaxing at wooden bar with a cup of coffee by her side. There also sits beside her a laptop, a camera and a slate, and she looks at a TV hanging on the wall with the words "Tris Talks Movies" spelled-out next to a film reel. A menu behind the bar reads, "New Video Soon." The rest of the scene is filled by cafe and film paraphernalia.
October 24, 2024 at 2:44 AM
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Decided to try pixel art a couple weeks ago, which feels like perfect timing with all the artistic inspiration Bluesky has been giving me. These extremely-pixelized movie stills are background works in a larger piece (1 of 2) I'm working on, but I've been itching to share!

#pixelart #filmsky #WIP
An extremely pixelated version of a still from the film Stray Dogs, in which a man stands in a dilapidated warehouse coated in blue light, staring into a mural depicting the countryside. A still from the film Stray Dogs. A man stands in a dilapidated warehouse coated in blue light, staring into a mural depicting the countryside. An extremely pixelated version of a still from the film Brief Encounter, in which a woman leans out of a train car, holding hands with a forlorn man who stands outside the train on the station platform. A still from the film Brief Encounter, in which a woman leans out of a train car, holding hands with a forlorn man who stands outside the train on the station platform.
October 23, 2024 at 3:56 AM
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Vive L'Amour (Tsai, 1994)

Perhaps unsurprisingly, the master of slow cinema crafted the greatest film about queer loneliness I've ever seen. A delicate film about quiet longing, the desire to belong, to be loved, to understand oneself. Never ceases to bring me to my own sort of quiet contemplation.
October 18, 2024 at 4:09 PM