10 more literature and film recommendations: poetry, French cinema, etc (February report)

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[@EllenAtlanta]

Ahhh thank you so much for featuring Pixel Flesh!! It means the world!!

[@dakotawarren]

an essential spiral!

[@quinni241]

Books and Films Mentioned Books: The Gentlemen From Peru by André Aciman (2:47) Assembly by Natasha Brown (6:16) Pixel Flesh: How Toxic Beauty Culture Harms Women by Ellen Atlanta (8:16) Goblin Market and Other Poems by Christina Rossetti (13:00) Films: Innocence directed by Lucile Hadzihalilovic (16:13) Paparazzi directed by Jacques Rozier (17:23) Blue Jeans directed by Jacques Rozier (18:20) Sibyl directed by Justine Triet (18:53) Passages directed by Ira Sachs (19:30) Wicked Little Letters directed by Thea Sharrock (20:48) (brilliant as always dakota

[@mynameiskeely]

You accidentally said "the first few months of February" instead of "first few weeks" but honestly what you said was more accurate

[@noahmettler5181]

"the late winter sun was hitting me on the face... consensually" I love, loove your energy in this video. Thank you Dakota.

[@privateacademymoonshine6719]

i'm starting to think you're a mindreader cause i was literally just thinking "hm I hope dakota posts a new video soon" and here it is, should i be scared?

[@thefatalflaw]

Haha, I thought I was the only one! :)

[@lunairis8709]

the discussion around beauty culture set my mind ablaze! god how i wish i could’ve been there to talk with you about it all in this moment. thank you for talking about botox for what it is! the beauty industry is full of people promoting these “fix all” solutions for insecurities they instilled upon us just to make money from us. natural beauty - wrinkles, scars, cellulite, etc. - should be celebrated more. it is a privilege to grow old, after all!

[@viiviieennee]

i can so see Dakota adoring kate chopin's work as her writing so incredibly sensorily (??) immersive, especially how she captures new orleans and the ocean!!

[@dakotawarren]

AH university ruined the awakening for me. we had to study it from every damn angle for so long. I couldn’t help but grow to despise it :( I should re-read and try reclaim it

[@viiviieennee]

@@dakotawarren no literally they tear some of the best pieces of writings to shreds with the analysing!!

[@Natsarchive111]

My tbr is getting longer, but your recs never disappoint so it's all worth it.

[@ilovepugsowo732]

could you post your tbr, i’m very curious!!! xx

[@Natsarchive111]

@@ilovepugsowo732 so my tbr is like hundreds of books, but here is my tbr for march. Goblin market and other poems by Christina Rossetti Assembly by Natasha Brown Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami Ariel by Sylvia Plath No longer human by Osama Dazai The woman destroyed by Simone De Beauvoir

[@Natsarchive111]

@@ilovepugsowo732 my tbr is very long, so here is my march tbr instead of my entire tbr. Goblin market and other poems by Christina Rossetti Assembly by Natasha Brown Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami Ariel by Sylvia Plath No longer human by Osama Dazai The woman destroyed by Simone De Beauvoir

[@joshyaks]

I wonder when society lost its veneration of its elders and started to fear ageing? As long as a person isn't stuck trying to be a perpetual teenager, there's a certain amount of calmness and contentment that can come with growing older, in my experience. I'm sure that one key to that is the fact that, other than my little KZbin channel where I have fun talking about my hobbies, I don't participate in any social media. (The internet: the BBL of anxiety and the toxic Botox freezing agent of serenity!)

[@flowerswift]

Hi, I am an English lit A-level student who hasn't found her writing style. I was wondering if you would post a video on how to perfect and find your way to write I would really appreciate it. Thanks p.s I love your videos.

[@a.j.andthings8021]

I'm an English and Cinema Studies double major so I read a lot and I watch movies a lot (insanely at 33 films and counting for February) but my favorite books from February were Beloved by Toni Morrison and The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle and some of my favorite first-time watches of February were Design for Living (1933), Possession (1981), Holiday (1938), and the short films A Study in Choreography for Camera (1945), and Cowboy and "Indian" Film (1958)

[@nosequiensoy]

hii, sorry to ask but where do you study? because I’m studying filmmaking in my country but I would like to do a major or something like abroad

[@a.j.andthings8021]

@nosequiensoy Rutgers University in New Jersey. I would note though that cinema studies is not the same thing as studying filmmaking, its the study of movies but not necessarily of how to make movies.

[@nosequiensoy]

@@a.j.andthings8021 oh okay tysm

[@magictophats1122]

Finished reading Girl, interrupted and what can I say but wow!! It is such an unflinching, real account on the lives of women in mental hospitals and just on mentally ill women in general. It is so amazing and I'm sure you'd love it. ❤

[@vitareads]

I watched Poor Things and Saltburn in February and I think you'd love them both. Based on your recommendation from a while ago, I finally read The Queen's Gambit and thank you thank you thank you! I adored it.

[@victorianwhovian]

She’s watched both, I believe!!

[@olaiagabard8212]

that sweater is to die for omg i love it

[@mimiloforte]

Loved the Chiaroscuro in the video

[@tobi_adediran]

So glad I got to attend the event you threw on Valentine’s Day!! Live art performances are definitely in for 2024 aha! Was lovely briefly meeting you too!! 💫

[@auntiivy]

the rant during Pixel Flesh- thank you, i love you!

[@gratz8]

loving the whimsy in this one- i’m charmed. , lighter in tone, you’re glowing ⛅️

[@dandelionsedyn]

dakota this video was published in my birthday, thanks for the present!

[@eva-eyre]

watching this video, somehow i felt like i wanted to annotate it 😭💙 you made so many good points and so many good topics came up and it’s so lovely

[@Labinzel]

I'm so pleased on your behalf for such compelling reads and lovely sunlight this month! I have so much faith this year will be incredible for your creative content:)

[@val.daffodils]

Love how this video is more personnal, it really feels like I'm talking to a friend!! Love the recommendatiooooons

[@cammyreader]

I really felt it when you said the first few months of February.

[@The_classic_nerd]

Thank you, Dakota… now I will need to read all of these books now!!!

[@queerfish6984]

I love what you said about reading with intention. Re-reading is also great. There are so many things you learn to appreciate in a second-read and it remind of this quote by Ali Smith in her book Artful "We do treat books surprisingly lightly in contemporary culture. We’d never expect to understand a piece of music on one listen, but we tend to believe we’ve read a book after reading it just once."

[@Pazoo_underscore]

babe wake up new dakota warren video just dropped

[@durivian]

ahh! I'm so early, and so ready for my new recommendations

[@elisazouza]

love these so much

[@laurenschenck5355]

I love your recommendations!!❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@renee_angelica]

LOVE your sweater.

[@Panagiotireads]

Just finished this newly released, original collection of fairy tales, entitled 'Sillies, Fancies, and Trifles' - it was phenomenal and just perfect for the season. You guys would love it! What's everyone else reading, I want some more recommendations to add to the lovely ones here. Keep up the beautiful videos :)

[@Ema...........................]

Not the random Lana del Rey concert in the middle, Dakota you are so lovely

[@mimiloforte]

wonderful sweater

[@user-yx6er3ry9b]

me and my friend met you in foyles :) ( i'm the one w the long hair ) thank you for your advice you are so so lovely, i'm more motivated to write now than ever - i've been watching your videos for a long time, it was a blessing ❤

[@KumkumWaskale-yh8og]

Now I am hyped for the new Andre Aciman book.

[@MsCaleb79]

I have been to the reading music festival one time in the english countryside. It was in the good old days.

[@hilarycartlidge6135]

'Andre Aciman and Pixel Flesh' sounds like a couple of bands on a tour poster - Cool..

[@chrysoula5226]

At that moment I was soo sure the song would come up and there it was heheh

[@clarapalmisano5]

so happy whenever you upload a video!🌹 Do you have Letterboxd?

[@amfro4276]

I finally watched Ladybird in February. I have wanted to for a while but I found time and I liked it a lot! It's pretty messy and explores the complex relationship between a teenage girl and those around her, but particularly between her and her mother, and her and herself.

[@laurenschenck5355]

Pixel Flesh I am definitely going to get it and read it ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@eva-eyre]

i bought this shirt because of you!! 🥰

[@whoreforjaneausten]

The only book I've read this month (someone stop me from starting like five long books at the same time) was Pity by Andrew McMillan and I loved it, I only wish it was longer and I got to study the characters for a longer period of time, I love reading exactly because I get to sit there and study people under a microscope for as long as I wish and this wasn't nearly enough for me

[@iamyourmother4517]

i saw that comment too!! you’re growing not aging omg also, as humans we’re always growing and changing and evolving so aging isn’t really a thing and if it is it’s a beautiful thing because it’s part of the process. but i mean a 20 year old isn’t aging that’s for sure

[@fia2041]

What is her tiktok account?

[@crumblecrumble99]

you should come to the us! i feel like you'd really enjoy nyc/a lot of the national parks out west

[@apocalypsereading7117]

as a fellow gentleman from Peru i am intrigued (Innocence is amazing, suuuch an underrated film!!)

[@a-yam943]

I had to get Botox for medical purposes over the summer and all I could think about was how ridiculous it was that I was getting BOTOX at the age of 20

[@douloureux.]

I remember i wrote my thesis on beauty culture and instagram’s influence on it in 2017. I got a lower mark because they thought it wasn’t true (even though i had sources for everything) and now i’m just like ..told you.

[@ramenila2369]

so refreshing to hear this discussion about cosmetic surgery. more and more i see people play these serious, and dangerous, procedures as just 'touch ups' or necessities and it drives me up the wall! ageing is so terrifying for women, but its only because of the ridiculous standards MEN hold us to, and constantly peddling these life altering 'beauty' procedures is only making that shit worse. there is nothing more beautiful than ageing.

[@incandescent.glow.]

You and jack both in your mic eras

[@traciecardone6778]

If you ever want to come to the USA, you should come to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. We have the Andy Warhol museum. And all sorts of other arts and things! As per usual though, you helped me add to my astronomical TBR 😂🥰

[@ruby5472]

if you enjoyed innocence i recommend looking into the book it's based off, mine ha-ha! it's a really interesting story, the book is impossible to find but i think the story of it would intrigue you

[@fredl8002]

I love it and I would wear it 24 hrs a day

[@romayssa__12]

i love you from Morocco, i love your recommendations 💖🇲🇦

[@EternalYapper]

I just read the book of eve by carmen boullosa and I just think you would absolutely love it? It’s an unrepentant feminist retelling of Adam and Eve while being wildly strange and so beautifully written, and all about women reclaiming things stolen from them and women being wronged by men and that being overwritten in history. I don’t know, I think you’d enjoy it, that’s what I read this month so 😅

[@flowerswift]

You remind me so much of my English teacher

[@liaalbethia4469]

i'm sooooo early out here yeeeeeeeeeeeey

[@DanielleOlavario]

So sad that I'd just moved out of London as you were throwing the party! :( do you think you'd host something similar in other city (Dublin, perhaps? 👀)?

[@avagreene9958]

I need Dakota's letterbox account!!!!

[@mimi5730]

absolute slay

[@yxuanberries]

im not sure if you have read bonjour tristesse by Francoise Sagan, but it gives the same vibes as call me by your name

[@myself6360]

I will watch this video only when I finish my current readings (to not feel tempted) lol readers understand

[@athanasia222]

Hahah like clockwork

[@lustforlife7792]

this month I loved Naked (1993)

[@fredl8002]

Where can I get that shirt ?

[@bzztthundaa]

❤

[@bellabyers2929]

MOTHER

[@evebarrett1556]

Please excuse Miss Dakota while she photosynthesizes

[@raufsat8261]

Possibly very few read paparazzi content; subsidised. Not necessarily by government. Speculation.

[@SarahFoulc]

I loooove André Aciman. You would love his essays! His mind, is woah. And his prose, of course... I read one of him every month since I discovered Call Me By Your Name :'). Cant' wait to read this one.

[@laurenschenck5355]

I appreciate you so much so beautiful smart and elegant ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤😊😊

[@Labinzel]

Dakota, if you enjoy critiques of colonialism I am begging you to read Babel by R F Kuang!

[@tine272]

i just wish people would start to see botox and fillers as an option once they've ACTUALLY aged a bit (aka when you're 45-55 years old, not in your damn 20's)

[@willieluncheonette5843]

"Heaven and hell are not geographical. If you go in search of them you will never find them anywhere. They are within you, they are psychological. The mind is heaven, the mind is hell, and the mind has the capacity to become either. But people go on thinking everything is somewhere outside. We always go on looking for everything outside because to be inwards is very difficult. We are outgoing. If somebody says there is a god, we look at the sky. Somewhere, sitting there, will be the divine person. In reality, everything is within; the outer is just a projection. Fear is within you; it is projected as a hell. Hell is just a projected image on the screen -- of the fear that is within you, of the anger, of the jealousy, of all that is poisonous in you, of all that is evil in you. Heaven is, again, a projected image on the screen -- of all that is good and beautiful, of all that is blissful within you. Heaven and hell are not very distant, they are neighbors; only a small fence divides them. You can jump that fence, even without a gate. You go on jumping from this to that. In the morning you may be in heaven; by evening you are in hell. This moment heaven, that moment hell. It is just an attitude, just a state of your mind, just how you are feeling. Many times, in a single life, you may visit hell, and many times you may visit heaven. In a single day also... Hell and heaven are within you. The doors are very close: with the right hand you can open one, with the left hand you can open another. With just a change of your mind, your being is transformed -- from heaven to hell and from hell to heaven. This goes on continuously. What is the secret? The secret is whenever you are unconscious, whenever you act unconsciously, without awareness, you are in hell; whenever you are conscious, whenever you act with full awareness, you are in heaven. If this awareness becomes so integrated, so consolidated, that you never lose it, there is no hell for you; if unconsciousness becomes so consolidated, so integrated, that you never lose it, there is no heaven. Fortunately unconsciousness can never become so consolidated; a part always remains conscious."

[@careyb1684]

I think wrinkles are so beautiful, they tell a person’s story. The older I get the more I realize that aging shouldn’t be scary. All decades of age have a beauty about them.

[@Ambermarie13]

I love anti-botox content

[@mell9263]

such good timing bc i need to pick a new book for class🫶

[@HeatherMascara]

I liked your talk about botox and beauty culture! 🫶🏻 People in their early 20s talking about aging is crazy to me! 🤯

[@mell9263]

such good timing bc i need to pick a new book for class🫶