COVID 19 FILM MOVIE MARATHON 2020:
MOVIE #17: "The Love Witch" directed by Anna Biller.
I gotta give props to anyone who makes something this niche. Wonderful 70's horror throwback that manages to capture that entire aesthetic not only through the carefully recreated visual style, but through the writing, performances, and casting. It adds a modern feminine perspective on a male dominated point in film history, turning its influences on its head. Wonderfully campy, erotic, and captivating.
COVID 19 FILM MOVIE MARATHON 2020:
MOVIE #16: "The Naked Gun" directed by the Zucker brothers.
The joke to minute ratio is insane. Leslie Nielsen is so effortlessly funny, I could listen to him read a URL character by character and still die. OJ's finest performance, aside from his trial.
Noah Baumbach’s talent as both a writer and a director have always been his innate ability to toe the line between theatrical and realistic with his characters, offering lovably exaggerated versions of people we know (and in some cases, loathe) without it ever feeling so exaggerated that it becomes parody. And while his previous works, such as The Squid and the Whale and Frances Ha utilize this philosophy to ground the theatrical down to the real, Marriage Story is the…
