Like a low-budget chapter of the Cremaster Cycle, starring Buster Keaton.
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The Great Buster: A Celebration 2018
An adequate but at times deeply awkward documentary. Keaton’s greatness, the importance of his story, and the sometimes vital and brilliant interviews, outshine Bogdanovich‘s meandering and surface-level biography. The section about Keaton’s later life and work in television is a wonderful exploration of that period of his life and a showcase of seldom-seen material, with good emotional buildup, but all momentum is sacrificed for an extensive saved-til-the-end recap of Keaton’s features.
I suppose the idea is that maybe the viewer…
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Yacht Rock: A DOCKumentary 2024
A truly staggering and heartfelt exploration of the genre that goes deep, does this often-contested sound right, has impeccable interviews, and wow let’s hear it for whoever handled the audio and video clearances on this beast!
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The Crimson Kimono 1959
In which two boys who are totally just platonic roommates meet a girl with a boy’s name and fall madly in love with her: the first woman they’ve ever felt comfortable around, then beat each silly with their rods in a rage of pent up frustration as they grapple with the lie of their heterosexuality.
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