Michelle: "Do you live alone?"
Mark: "Everybody lives alone."

Quite possibly the greatest, least discussed, and nearly forgotten film about Los Angeles and its beautifully, tragically endemic culture of twenty-somethings who have abandoned family, friends, and the comforts of home in pursuit of big city dreams. It is a reality that everybody secretly recognizes, but that few would ever openly admit to one another. Life in LA is frequently difficult, at times it is utterly unmanageable, and by default requires…

aka Imitation: Film Without Plot

99.9% sure that anyone who has never seen an art film fears that it would be exactly like this...

There’s a look from Tilda Swinton in here that is worth the price of admission, but frankly there’s not much else. Besides, it’s honestly difficult to tell how sincerely committed Schlingensief is to the rather obtuse presentation. Kinda seems like he’s goofin’ on the emotionality of Jarman with his own perverse additions of wild, satanic hullabaloo…

Forget PUNISHER: WAR ZONE. Goldblatt made an 80s action masterpiece.

10 reasons why you should stop everything and watch THE PUNISHER now:

1. Dolph Lundgren (!) as Frank Castle / The Punisher.
2. Jeroen Krabbe (!) as the new don of the Italian mafia.
3. Explosions. Lots of 'em. Explosions within explosions.
4. Scuba-Ninjas. Stop. Read it again. Fucking scuba-ninjas!
5. A deadly woman who crucifies a man with her earrings.
6. A vision of Castle as a broken, fragile,…

Rewatch with Vincent Gallo’s commentary track from the Japanese home video release. He talks a lot about the start-to-finish booing of the unfinished version exhibited in Cannes; how he positioned a monitor just out of frame, but to match his eyeline, so as to allow himself to compose the shots and serve as cinematographer; and he openly ponders what drove him to spend three years creating a film that (almost) nobody liked, that didn’t make any money, and that has since…