After watching Friedkin's BUG, I needed something a bit chill. This, as it turns out, was not a bit chill. My heightened readiness for enclosed derangement was immediately engaged by a whirling monstrosity of Americana. Where BUG showed expanding consciousneses unspooling beyond control in the confines of a motel, THE HUDSUCKER PROXY instead revealed the grand metropolis and the tiny awareness of those who pulled its strings, equally mad & lost within their own narratives.
THE HUDSUCKER PROXY rattles as it…

A jewelled crown of paracinema, a prize that was never meant for mere mortals, Surviving Edged Weapons comes to us from a golden age of violence & silliness. It was a police training video, created for a professional elite to educate & enlighten. How a man jiggling at the speed of danger, hips flexing & thrusting, was meant to train a police officer in the ways of self defense remains a mystery. There are many mysteries surrounding this film, such as who the…