Rick Powell

Rick Powell

Favorite films

  • Lola Montès
  • The Andy Warhol Diaries
  • Vagabond
  • Pennies from Heaven

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  • The House Is Black

    ★★★★½

  • A Woman Is a Woman

    ★★★★

  • Stopmotion

  • Drive-Away Dolls

    ★★★★

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  • Drive-Away Dolls

    Drive-Away Dolls

    ★★★★

    I found this to be funner, funnier, and a lot less mean and confused than Bottoms, (but younger generations of film buffs really seem to get off on mean and confused), if less interesting as a cultural artifact. There are even some expressive dream/fantasy sequences that seem to be there only for the joy of making them and seeing how the audience might respond. Anything that brings back dyke as a power word invoking an idea and/or a culture is all right by me. Linda Ronstadt (twice), Funkadelic, and the Runaways on the soundtrack, oh yeah.

  • Ospreys

    Ospreys

    ★★★★

    Weird gay shit.

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  • In from the Side

    In from the Side

    It was everything I could do to get through this utterly ordinary gay romance. The film's only claim to novelty is the rugby field, and yet it manages to fuck that up, too, with some of the most inept and unconvincing sports choreography I've seen in a while.

    But the worst of it is the generic dialogue. At one point, a character asks his lover and fellow "cheater," "How did we end up here, Mark?"

    Oh, I dunno…a shitty script?

  • Her

    Her

    I can't imagine anyone who reads sci-fi more than casually, or even someone who's seen a decent number of Star Trek: The Next Generation episodes, and especially anyone who's read Richard Powers' prescient and emotionally rich Galatea 2.2, or perhaps a reasonably informed average user of modern computers, to do anything but scoff and laugh at Spike Jonez's superficial attempt to speculate about artificially intelligent agents in, what? The near future? An alternate universe? Inside his head? Every time someone…