Letterboxd — Your life in film

Dennis Hopper invented a whole new way to edit scene transitions, a staccato echo across space and time, and then no one used that technique ever again. Because it was a dumb, acid-induced idea. But it still kinda works.

There's a profound ambivalence here that makes Easy Rider a thornier and more interesting text than it might appear. It's more than iconography and a thundering soundtrack and a crazy jack nicholson performance. But not that much more, because it doesn't need to be. Favorite cut: the violence with which "If 6 was 9" ruptures out of "Don't Bogart That Joint."

A bit puzzling tbh. Gunning 16mm.

Materiality incarnate. Moths gather at the light and fry themselves alive, and then they get projected and immortalized through light. Gunning 16 mm.

Is trauma funny? Certain people who actually had narcissistic abusive parents say that this plays more like a documentary for them than a fun, campy cult curio. I was a little wary going in, but it turns out that yes, trauma is funny.

Growing on me. Played twice. Tom Gunning 16 mm.

Never been my favorite WKW, but has some of the most sensuous and rapturous scenes ever put on film. Rain pouring down, Yumeji's theme, Maggie Cheung walking up the steamy stairwell after her noodles, Tony Leung on the way down, the camera glides over to a pipe that shakes and sputters.

Haha cocaine bear

I miss when he would touch my hair and say shiny shiny shiny.

So much fun! Between this and Theater Camp this is turning out to be a good year for comedy (You People and Joy Ride not included). Is it because these writers/directors are my age now and we just have the same sense of humor?

That line about underestimating the importance of danger (after talking about how much they hate hippies).