Favorite films
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
The first time I saw this it didn't really occur to me: if Buddy Love is so cool, why is he always hanging out at a college bar? Wouldn't an actually cool alter ego of a dorky chemistry professor get, you know, off campus and into a place with some real action? The movie asks us to see Buddy as a paragon of suavity, but on a second viewing he starts to look like simply a different kind of loser—the…
Redux for Technicolor Weekend. This cut is certainly a slog at times, though I have a feeling (it's been ages since I'd seen any version) even the theatrical cut would peak early for me with the Robert Duvall scenes. The super-saturated Technicolor print looked as wild as I'd heard, not quite the '70s aesthetic but not a modern (circa 2001) look either, something unique. Still, given that I haven't looked at this film at all since I was in high…
Like a 90-minute version of the "we all go a little mad sometimes" scene from Psycho, but you're not sure which one is Norman Bates and instead of murder there's only disappointment and confusion. Great film.