Fully deserved classic. Exhilarating, empathetic and beautiful.
I know it’s been parodied to death and I even knew it beforehand but the ending is close to the level of emotional catharsis that Heat is for me. Absolutely brilliant, where has this Ridley Scott gone???
In case you don’t know: I hate this era of films, I truly do.
But I watched this one because Lubitsch made To Be or Not to Be, a movie I think is fantastic and I saw this one was ranked alongside it as one of his best, it was leaving the Criterion Channel, and it was only 83 minutes.
And by the end, just like so many other films of this time, it felt ten times its length, was…
I’m not joking around when I say that I think Jack Stauber is at a level of creativity I don’t think few other human beings can achieve. I honestly don’t even know how he’s physically capable of doing what he does.
His animations that are literally compressed onto VHS.
His music has incredibly experimental instrumentation, production, and vocals.
His animations are comprised of live action, stop motion, 3D computer animation, and traditional animation.
He has released three albums, one each…
I just found out today that frequent Letterboxd user and the director of this film Eli Hayes has just passed away. I don’t really know what’s true and what isn’t right now, but what I do know is that from the few times I talked to Eli, I found that he was an incredibly generous and compassionate person, to the point where he watched both of my short films I have listed on here. In fact, only two days ago…
