My favorites are the best things I've watched for the first time in the past year or so.
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The People Under the Stairs 1991
"Burn in hell for gettin' free, and burn in hell for showin' the way!"
Actual footage of real landlords doing their thang.
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Batman 1989
"Decent people shouldn't live here. They'd be happier someplace else."
For better or worse, this will always be the Batman movie to me. I first saw it as a young boy obsessed with superheroes and scary stories, and its weird, spooky, gothic deco noir depiction of the heroes and villains of Gotham City was right up my (shadowy, deserted) alley. It focused my obsession, and I put countless miles on our household's homemade VHS copy, collected dozens of movie-licensed toys,…
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The Night of the Hunter 1955
Screened on 35mm at the Hollywood in PDX with an intro by Foster Hirsch.
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Electric Dreams 1984
Edgar had more rizz in his sound card than poor Moles did in his entire 12 yo boy's body, and no amount of consecutive days wearing a bow tie could make up for it.
Face it, ChatGPT is coming for your girl.
The dog was played by, and this is true, Winston T. Dog.
Thanks Hollywood Theatre PDX.
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Johnny Suede 1991
This is one of those little movies that defies all genres by quirk-addled accident. Not funny enough to be a comedy, not dramatic enough to be a drama, not wacky or gross enough to be whatever it is that John Waters makes. Johnny Suede would be just a cute throwaway movie if not for the immense talent taking shape right before your eyes in Brad Pitt and Catherine Keener. Even so, it's barely worth a watch to see them, albino Nick Cave, and a brief glimpse of Sam Jackson, because there's not much else to find.
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Roger Dodger 2002
In Jesse Eisenberg's major film debut, his blend of awkwardness, precociousness, and perfect comic timing are already almost fully developed. This is a memorable little story with a lot of sharp dialogue mostly delivered by Campbell Scott as his character misguidedly attempts to shepherd Eisenberg's into manhood to distract himself from his own continuing failure to grow up.