A Complete Unknown — and a lil bit of Challengers— for Black people and with Jazz. 35mm print had me so immersed like I don’t think I’ve ever seen Brooklyn and Manhattan locations with sheer rich color and depth on film. Right when I was about to scream bout the end, that montage by the end decimated me. The fact this was Spike’s second movie. Remarkable. One of the best of our time.
A tragic, yet profound, depression era Mississippi tale about addiction on two s: the thrill of robbing banks as if their lives depended on it for the sake of it since nothing in life fills their cup and Coke. Big Coca-Cola propaganda all around. Thought the Voss product placement in Smile 2 was obscene but goddamn.
Shelley Duvall fucking phenomenal here. Wow.
I’ve never seen slapstick that varies between silly and cirque du soleil like this. Wow! What a delight. Robert Altman really fucking hates taxes and monopolies. He’s so real for that.
Excellent spinach propaganda, crazy set demolition, ROBIN WILLIAMS AND SHELLEY DUVALL understanding the assignment! It ain’t got no plot but sure compensates by being so funny and entertaining.
Why couldn’t ANY of the cartoon to live action adaptations I had to suffer from growing up be as good as this!?
So this was Not really my thing. However! It’s so nice to watch a 70s movie that feel like a time capsule to the period it’s depicting in of itself. Like after watching a piss poor old frontier western series this week for work, this was that good shit i desperately needed. I was throughly entertained with Altman’s approach in exploring early stages of American capitalism within this old frontier town that feels like both a relic of its time,…