Pleasant and straightforward, probably too idealized but it’s impossible not to buy in to the mythology a little bit. A nice reminder that the west coast electro country pop movement wasn’t JUST a CIA orchestration, but also the product of a beautiful convenient natural setting with shockingly affordable rent.
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Becoming Led Zeppelin 2025
I have been watching a lot of music documentaries from the 1960s and 70s lately and I can’t stop thinking about the historic cultural and material context which allowed this degree of creativity to flourish. An abundance of local venues, a limited number of local radio stations, well-funded arts education and strong social safety nets. Record labels hadn’t yet algorithmically solved music, so they threw buckets of money at genuine original talents, looking for artists with natural appeal. Everything must…
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Dune: Part Two 2024
A physically exhausting experience. Between the monochromatic palette and the constant groaning of the score, I struggled to enjoy the elements of plot that remained from the book, especially as Villeneuve removed every other element which makes the source so interesting and unique.
He quite literally took all the life out of the story, the ecological beauty, the green of Paul's vision. Grey water against grey sand hardly suggests the life that already lives in the desert (what does the…
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Nosferatu 2024
I enjoyed the pervasive sense of doom and dread, but otherwise this felt pretty rote. Performances are fine, the script is lumpy and literal, the gorgeous sets and costumes get lost in the digitally murky midtones, despite Eggers demonstrating in a least a couple shots that he does in fact know how to use an edge light. Some compositions were really striking, while others were merely symmetrical. For every gorgeously choreographed move, there was a shot where the camera just…
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