“You don't live with me, you live among the remains of dead people.”
Mann shooting that one POV shot on digital changed his life forever.
[IB Tech 35mm]
Snappiest movie I’ve ever seen in my entire life? Such a seamless interweaving of hangout and adventure beats that moved me like nothing I’ve ever seen before. The on-screen chemistry in this is so astronomically charming that you would never believe that this ensemble was acting. Might be my new favorite Hawks movie. I could watch John Wayne capture rhinos and Elsa Martinelli tend to baby elephants for hours upon hours and I wouldn’t get bored.
[35mm]
“I think we’ll be okay now.”
MTV Cribs from Hell. First time seeing this since endlessly rewatching it on DVD as a kid and I genuinely think I had a trauma response when “Night #21” came on screen. Stood out so much more on rewatch how much this is just 86 minutes of a woman slowly getting killed by her shitty boyfriend. Contains sound design so scary that it makes me cover my ears. What happened to this house, Mr. Blum?
[35mm]
Spike Lee’s masterpiece. A genuine miracle that he could get away with making it. Seeing all the transitions to film and archival footage on a big screen knocked me on my ass and made me thousand yard stare for hours afterwards. Ancient evil broadcasted for a live studio audience on the digital idiot box.
“The primordial digital ooze from which a weapon evolved.”
In which a phantom communes with god inside a deep sea coffin before facing off against its vampiric messiah in the heavens. A movie beamed in from the post-apocalypse. I could copy and paste my review for Dead Reckoning Part One and it would also hold true for this. Doubles down on every single idiosyncrasy I adore (and others bafflingly hate?) about that movie. Nothing is written, and yet everything feels so…