I’m pretty sure Jim Kelly tried to punch a bird in the dick in this movie. Birds mostly don’t have dicks, but he damn well tried his best.
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I’m pretty sure Jim Kelly tried to punch a bird in the dick in this movie. Birds mostly don’t have dicks, but he damn well tried his best.
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Fifth of the Six Moral Tales
I have deeply mixed feelings about Claire’s Knee, one of Eric Rohmer’s Six Moral Tales. I think the film (and director) knows what an utter fucking bastard the lead, Jerome, is. I know the film thinks he’s a buffoon – the directorial stand-in, Aurora, writer and friend of Jerome, is constantly watching him with a smirk, pushing him toward folly and observing his failures, moral and otherwise. But does the film cut him too…
Early quickie Halloween slasher ripoff (hell they must have put this thing into production the day Halloween made its first buck). Rips off the score and some of the shots, and the small town female friend dynamic (only a little older), but with like 1/8th the style and atmosphere.
Part of the problem is that far from being incompetent, it’s almost TOO competent - there’s very little craziness. It’s also slackly paced, even at an hour thirty. And the villain…
Liked this crime thriller a hell of a lot more than Glass’s Saint Maud, which felt like reheated Repulsion leftovers to me. Katy O’Brian is literally crushing it as Jackie, the insanely jacked (and more generally just plain insane) focus of Kristen Stewart’s Lou. The way the camera crawls over Jackie, you’re right there with her. Ed Harris also creepy as hell. Stylish, dark, fun, chock full of body horror and TERRIBLE haircuts (this gives Bones and All a run…
I am genuinely uncertain whether what I just watched was terrible terrible, or hilariously awesomely terrible. And I'm not sure if the director and cast know either. But I wasn't bored.
I attended a screening with a Q&A from director Richard Shepard and stars Alison Williams and Logan Browning, and Shepard said the film was shot in 24 days, cheap and fast, from an idea he developed himself for Williams, and that seems about right. Shepard also said his inspiration…
Man did I dig this specific variant of the Wes Anderson aesthetic, that 1950s soda jerk pink and green set against the Atomic Age sets and desert. The movie itself I enjoyed quite a bit, though it felt a bit too emotionally removed and deliberately surreal to rank among his best for me. But the look of it, and that literal showstopping moment in the middle (you’ll know it when you see it) … 😘
Wes Anderson films ranked here.
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