I'm surprised by the many one star reviews. This is pretty wonderful and weird (and campy). It kind of feels like an episode of Jim Henson's The Storyteller.
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Come and See 1985
My first watch of 2022. Post-apocalyptic fiction wishes it could be this movie. I don’t think cinema can get any closer to the horrors of war. It was originally supposed to be called Kill Hitler, but why not War is Hell instead? I spent all night thinking about and processing what I saw, running its story over and over again in my head. The movie takes you on an adventure from innocence to a complete loss of humanity. The Nazis…
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Lydia Lunch: The War Is Never Over 2019
This isn’t a documentary that starts from point A and goes to point B. While we do get some of Lunch’s personal history (a flash in the pan shot of her as a little girl, an anecdote about getting a ride from a stranger), the documentary focuses on Lunch’s ideas and themes. There’s no mention of the Dead Boys or how Lunch got her punk name. Although her work is covered, there’s no chronology of it. Her music, spoken word,…
