miscreant; overly generous with my likes (4.5-5⭐️: absolutely love; 0.5-1⭐️: despise; otherwise, ❤️/no ❤️).
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The American Dreamer 1971
Fascinating verité style doc following Dennis Hopper during the period when he was on top of the world, basking in the glow of Easy Rider’s massive financial success and decamped to Taos, NM, where he works on editing his follow-up for Universal, The Last Movie, ensconced in a sprawling pueblo ranch estate, shrouded in a constant haze of drugs and drink, surrounded by a bevy of hangers-on, most of them very young hippy females. The Manson vibes are strong (and not just…
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Ricco 1973
As far as ‘70s Italian mafia revenge pictures starring Robert Mitchum’s son in which an evil Don played by Arthur Kennedy sporting shoe polish dyed hair and a John Waters mustache orders his henchmen to cut off a guy’s dick, shove it into his mouth, then toss him into a cauldron of bubbling acid go, this one’s pretty lit.
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The Ghost of Peter Sellers 2018
Director Peter Medak revisits a cursed, aborted Peter Sellers movie he shot in the early ‘70s, the shoot of which was such a shitshow that it nearly ended his career. The lore and bits of footage are interesting, the self-pitying tone of the first person stuff less so.
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Babylon 2022
Look, the history of cinema is the history of directors having a big acclaimed Oscar-feted hit and then earning the juice to make their next one a huge swing-for-the-fences dream project/drug-fueled folly. Sometimes it turns out to be Magnolia, sometimes it turns out to be New York, New York, sometimes it turns out to be Heaven’s Gate, and then sometimes it turns out like this. I don’t make the rules.
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Dumb Money 2023
I mean, Paul Dano gives a nice performance, but this just fucking screams “Black List script.”
