Zach

We're not laughing at you, we're laughing with you.

But I'm not laughing.

Favorite films

  • Taxi Driver
  • Vertigo
  • Stroszek
  • Badlands

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  • White Noise

    ★★★

  • Time Indefinite

    ★★★

  • Certain Fury

    ★★★

  • Firstborn

    ★★★½

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  • White Noise

    White Noise

    ★★★

    This is one of those movies that for most of the run time, my mind starts to drift and starts thinking what it would look like if some other director had made it. I imagined White Noise as directed by: PTA, the Coen Brothers, David Lynch, Lynne Ramsay, Hal Hartley, Spike Jonez, Michel Gondry, et al. An interesting one I think would have been Terry Gilliam doing it sometime between Brazil and 12 Monkeys. And I was also thinking about…

  • Time Indefinite

    Time Indefinite

    ★★★

    A documentary ahead of its time but not entirely timeless. Was this guy like the Nathan Fielder of his era?

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  • Marlina the Murderer in Four Acts

    Marlina the Murderer in Four Acts

    ★★★★

    Reviewed as part of Collab Film Club


    A meditative (to put it mildly) and timely (sadly so) take on the rape/revenge genre. The protagonist, Marlina, has to deal with a bunch of creepy dudes harassing her for no reason. After they take her livestock and the head creeper rapes her, she dispenses with him and his buddies via some poison and a good machete chop to the neck. Two of them slip away. This subverts the genre a bit as…

  • Warm Nights on a Slow Moving Train

    Warm Nights on a Slow Moving Train

    ★★★½

    Warm Nights was a nice little discovery. This was a film I nominated along with other Australian films to be voted on by "The Collab". I had started with a list of about 30 films and whittled it down to the final five. I tried to pick ones that were underseen, a little weird, and hopefully that didn't suck. I like that this group wants to see these underseen, left-field films.

    I am a record collector and I find the…