Filled in a semi-blindspot here (i once saw about 30 min on City TV’s GREAT MOVIES as a kid) and the Cruise of it all is really something else. Describing the plot points and motivations in COCKTAIL makes you feel insane; it’s a case study in tonal whiplash as severe as anything in the 80s studio canon (no self-respecting director would put his name on it, so thank goodness for Roger Donaldson entering his enjoyable-hack phase). But truly, Cruise is so…
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Twentynine Palms 2003
Was considering jamming this into a screening curriculum because the original choices were too well-worn;. It would be a mistake, but also maybe one worth making. I want to see how it'd go over. I interviewed Dumont back at TIFF in 2003, where TWENTYNINE PALMS was a formidable conversation piece and site of more walkouts than I'd ever seen at a festival; back then he refused any interpretation of the film as satire, homage, or a detached, calculated exercise in…