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Category Archives: Movies Watched In 2016
Night Tide (1961)
Night Tide walks the tightrope between B-movie and arthouse sensibilities with varying degrees of success. The atmosphere drips off of the film. It’s vision of spooky seaside loneliness certainly registers and the black and white photography feels very much of … Continue reading
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Tagged Curtis Harrington, dennis hopper, Night Tide
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Excellence vs. Excess: Ben Wheatley’s High-Rise (2016)
Early on in High-Rise, Dr. Robert Laing (Tom Hiddleston) demonstrates the dissection of a human skull by tearing the face off of a severed head. This being a Ben Wheatley movie, we see the moment in glorious detail: flesh, muscle … Continue reading
Loving Memory (1970)
Twelve years before he made his debut good and proper with The Hunger, Tony Scott directed this little-seen British art film. Beyond a knack for composing striking frames, you’d be hard pushed to guess the two movies came from the … Continue reading
Vixen (1968)
Vixen a.k.a. Russ Meyer’s Nymphomaniac. Everyone remembers Meyer movies for the T and A but the guy really was an impressive filmmaker, especially where editing and rhythm is concerned. His movies dance and boogie with genuine zest and vigour. I’ve … Continue reading
American Ultra (2015)
Came for the dopey high-concept and the actors. Works for about two thirds then becomes a tad brain-numbing and formulaic. I’m all for splatty violence but something about it here just didn’t sit right with me. Eisenberg is fine but … Continue reading
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Tagged American Ultra, jesse eisenberg, Kristen Stewart
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Eureka (1983)
A typically Roeg-ian mosaic of greed, lust and rivalry that starts off ice-cold before reaching sunburnt-levels of craziness. Really underrated performance from Hackman here. He plays an extremely hateful, angry character. Very characteristic of Hackman’s best roles (Popeye, Harry Caul) … Continue reading
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Tagged Eureka, Gene Hackman, Joe Pesci, Joe Spinell, Mickey Rourke, Nicolas Roeg, Rutger Haur, Theresa Russell
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The Good Dinosaur (2015)
Not quite on board with the negative reaction this one got. Quite a pleasurable watch with a surrealistic blend of animation. I know many didn’t get along with the disconnect between the hyper-real backgrounds and hyper-unreal dinosaurs but I kinda … Continue reading
Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016)
So Batman has a lot of dreams that look like trailers for movies DC are planning on making. That’s weird. I still can’t get behind a Superman so fucking angsty, desaturated and gritty. What the holy fuck were they thinking … Continue reading
Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (1969)
I only heard of Paul Mazursky last year (when he passed away, sadly) but his body of work seems to have had a subtle influence on many of today’s best filmmakers. I really didn’t know what to expect. He’s like … Continue reading
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