With a cover image like that, one must temper one's expectations. But it had me thinking about the 80s as peak-hair dryer, the hair-dryer bubble, if you will, followed by the inevitable and rarely-discussed hair dryer crash, and all of it paralleled by the spandex bubble and its bursting. (The historians have failed us.) During tracking shots through the titular spa, you're assaulted with a pop-art color schema that would've made Warhol blush. A neglected classic. A kaleidoscope of stretchy…
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Million Dollar Legs 1932
Somehow, the spirit of the Marx Brothers in a Buñuel joint. Completely loved it. Unhinged, pre-Code H'wood throwing everything at the wall to see what sticks. It's an historical injustice that a subsequent kind of film took the name "screwball."
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Gone in Sixty Seconds 2000
After Nic Cage goes all Zen-Buddhist listening to "Low Rider," then opens his eyes and says, "Let's ride," I told my wife to bury me with the blu-ray of this movie.
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One Hundred and One Nights 1995
Are you familiar or in love with the following:
Fellini/Mastroianni collaborations
Mastroianni's repartee with Anouk Aimée
Jean-Paul Belmondo
Catherine Deneuve
Robert De Niro (w/ ponytail)
Alain Delon
the Lumière brothers
the Cannes Film Festival
Luis Buñuel
Gerard Depardieu's death scenes
Welles & Touch of Evil
Jeanne Moreau
Jean Renoir
Erich von Stroheim (in The Grand Illusion & Sunset Boulevard)
Agnès Varda (esp. Cleo, Le Bonheur, & Vagabond)
Jacques Demy (esp. Young Girls)
Nosferatu
and/or cinema?Then this is for you. Viewing this was…