Favorite films
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
For all the parents who say they’ll do absolutely anything for their children, James M. Cain has some notes for you...
Ya know how boomers have American Graffiti to feel nostalgic about their era? This is that movie for post-collegiate recession era millennials. This is the best we got. Pretty much sums it all up. Bless you, Kelly Reichardt.
The tracking shot of the dogs at the kennel is such an exquisite shot but works just as powerful as metaphor.
When I was in sixth grade, me and two other classmates made a perfectly scaled model of the Washington Monument and the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool with an accompanying diorama of DC from scratch. It had a motor to make the blue-dyed water in the pool ripple, a fan to blow the leaves on the trees with a gentle rustle, and a tape recorder that was set behind the diorama and would play crowd noise. We recorded our lunchroom cafeteria…
The party is the place to be, yet both are trapped, would rather be anywhere else. She wants a ride home away from the society that oppresses her and he wants to be left alone in his room away from the society that oppresses him. He tosses the keys to his graduation present to her and says she can drive herself home. Instead, with a touch of menace, she throws the keys right back at him. They sink to the…