Letterboxd — Your life in film

"In some (highly regrettable) ways, American Dharma is a movie I’ve been unconsciously preparing to review for the last ten years or so. I was reading Breitbart before there was Breitbart, via the aforementioned Nolte’s blog, Dirty Harry’s Place. Now apparently scrubbed from the net (alas!), this was where Nolte talked about how much he loved the Death Wish series and hated Communism; when the late Andrew Breitbart launched his web presence, Nolte was a super-logical choice to head its…

Inevitably time capsule-fascinating to compare/contrast this with fellow traveler-movies from other countries; as its own object, pretty flat. Initially presents as a film about a couple (successfully!) negotiating an open relationship while also strategizing student dissent, which frankly seems like a lot to handle all at once, but the dynamics are less complex than that. He’s a frowning, bearded, Very Serious type ready to make the Raskolnikov leap into killing the rich rather than just protesting them; she’s a server…

"Gear-switch: I am not, by and large, much for schadenfreude-fueled viewing. I have seen, and continue to be assigned on a freelance basis, more than enough garbage for review purposes that I do not actively seek out low-quality work for kicks; still, when I learned a few weeks ago that a film version of James Frey’s infamous “memoir” A Million Little Pieces was somehow a movie in the year of our lord 2018, I knew I had to set aside…