"This place is rotten. The landscape, the food we eat. This whole country is rotten."
A film that shows the competing values of the process (including the production of a movie) versus the end result. Really enjoyed this one.
"This place is rotten. The landscape, the food we eat. This whole country is rotten."
A film that shows the competing values of the process (including the production of a movie) versus the end result. Really enjoyed this one.
“I know how it's going to end now. I'm going inside the video, through the computer, into the screen.”
Schoenbrun’s I Saw The TV Glow was my favorite film of 2024 and I’ve been really keen to visit their earlier work. World’s Fair is like watching TV Glow’s concepts in seed form.
Where TV Glow uses the medium of television, World’s Fair has its focus on the internet. It captures something unique about online culture by using the visual language of…
“Y'all take it easy now. This isn't Dallas, it's Nashville! They can't do this to us here in Nashville! Let's show them what we're made of. Come on everybody, sing! Somebody, sing!”
Every time I watch this movie I’m just floored by it. A heartbroken Keenan Wynn leaving his wife’s funeral to find his niece. A naive and humiliated Gwen Welles being told that she can’t sing and her soul with be irreparably damaged if she continues to try. The…