EPIGRAPH
"I've never had to knock on wood. But I know someone who has..."
[italics mine. - ed]
STORY
It was the mid-to-late 90s and I was sat in the cold in my father's van in the Bayview Elementary parking lot. The station was playing it again. The station was always playing it again. Through aimless tuning, we had found — that is, my sister and I had found — a frequency which played one song and only one song. In…
SPIKE LEE: Here come “New York’s Finest.” The title Do The Right Thing does not really refer to Mookie throwing the garbage can through the window, I mean. My experience, you know, since this film’s come out, the white audience, they’re more concerned about destruction of property, the destruction of Sal’s Famous Pizzeria, than they were about the death of Radio Raheem. I think they should ask themselves that question: why are they more concerned with the property of this…
Dwight's outfit, strutting outside, incredible.
SPOILERS
SPOILERS
A very meta movie. Wild moment: the filmmaker's (he's playing himself) film can (the film we are watching, we learn) is knocked over and it causes the protagonist to shoot herself in the face. The movie itself gets rattled from the inside and compels its fulcrum to implode.
The BFI Mediatheque currently has it as a streaming selection and I watched it at their Southbank London location. The surviving reel runs 12 minutes, features a fair amount of intertitles, and is a very dry and slow affair, elegant in its way. The opening credits are included and all of the labelled cast members look exactly as they should. As far as I can tell, this film is only viewable at these BFI locations, but it is totally free…
Sometimes you know you’re going to love a movie from the vibe of the opening credits. It didn’t hurt that they included the words “Barbra Streisand.”
The Doris nightwear/skeleton outfit combo is the only couples costume I can accept.
