I so vividly recall the first time seeing Mulholland Drive. It was four of us in Josh’s frat house room, and I don’t know if I’d ever even heard of David Lynch prior. When it ended, I remember just being a bit speechless, but baffled at how one person in the room simply refused to accept that it was anything other than terrible and incoherent. After winding down with some conversation of praise and positive bewilderment, I went to my room…
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Synecdoche, New York 2008
I often try to remain on the cheerier side of life. Is it a defense mechanism? By forcing myself to think of just one good thing that happened on a particular day, it makes the thought of an impending end a bit easier to stomach. Some days are harder than others to come up with one of those thoughts. One of those distractions. Perhaps that's why I pour so much of myself into cinema. Into books. Into video games and…
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All Noncombatants Please Clear the Set 2012
Lance Bangs shooting Spike Jonze running around like a lunatic while wearing a rubber mask? That makes this basically a quasi-Jackass short. Jonze exhibits such free flowing creativity every time he’s on screen here. It’s a marvel that the film comes together so nicely, but upon seeing this BTS featurette, it really knocks you back with just how wild some of the set-ups are. Jonze deciding to throw on Keener’s costume and hair and do the stunt himself late night? The…
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Being John Malkovich 1999
Truly one of the most bizarre and brilliant films ever created. The fact that it exists feels like a bit of a miracle
I’d say it’s baffling how well this works, but that would be such a disservice to Kaufman’s script. Its spectacle and galaxy-brained out there idea provides the intrigue and hook, but there’s so much buried in the text and subtext about all our feelings of disillusionment and existential malaise. Life has the ability to feel as if…Translated from by
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Jimmy Timmy Power Hour 2004
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The Favourite 2018
To the Oscar selection committee:
Nominate Horacio, The Fastest Duck In The City for Best Actor
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