Barry Jenkins & Medicine for Melancholy (2008)

Dear Movies, I Love You

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🗓️ 6 May 2025

⏱️ 73 minutes

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On this week’s moving episode of Dear Movies, I Love You, our hosts Millie and Casey discuss the work of director Barry Jenkins and his debut feature MEDICINE FOR MELANCHOLY (2008). Plus, they answer some questions for their Film Advice segment including one about whether it’s OK to make out at the movies.

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0:00.0	This is exactly right.
0:05.9	Hey, Casey, how's it going?
0:08.3	Millie, it's going well.
0:10.4	Yeah.
0:10.7	How are you?
0:11.9	I have really good news, actually.
0:14.1	Please, we need it.
0:16.4	Tomorrow, which is technically May 7th.
0:20.4	Uh-huh.
0:20.7	I am finally, finally... which is technically May 7th. Uh-huh.
0:27.2	I am finally, finally graduating from my master's program.
0:28.8	Oh, my God.
0:30.9	How does that feel?
0:33.1	Do you feel unburdened?
0:42.4	Listen, I, it has been, I don't know if you know this, but I started this program in, I started this program in 2014.
0:52.1	That's 11 years ago, like literally 11 years ago, almost like maybe to the month at least.
0:57.9	It's been, like, these master's programs are supposed to only take like two years, right?
0:59.5	Like, it's supposed to be a two-year program.
1:01.3	It took me 11 years.
1:08.1	I mean, you can't, I hope you don't feel any, you know, pain about that because you've had a lot of stuff going on. A huge part of it is that I made the decision to, like, I guess, like, informally leave the program in 2016.
1:17.0	Yes.
1:17.3	Because I moved to L.A.
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