DrewWelch

DrewWelch

Hey pal, just blow in from stupid town?

Favorite films

  • The Last Black Man in San Francisco
  • Boogie Nights
  • Before Sunset
  • The Great Beauty

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  • Mulholland Drive

    ★★★★

  • Nickel Boys

    ★★★★½

  • One of Them Days

    ★★★

  • No Country for Old Men

    ★★★★½

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  • Mulholland Drive

    Mulholland Drive

    ★★★★

    Genius post-modern critique.

    An indecipherable knot. The movie does not want to be understood, and frankly the attempt to decipher it feels like the point.

  • Nickel Boys

    Nickel Boys

    ★★★★½

    What an intoxicating, disorienting, and impressionistic approach to storytelling.

    The way cameras work in presenting humans is that whatever subject they’re pointed at receives a kind of forced meaning based on how the image presents them, and whether for good or ill, the viewer’s imagination of the subject will be manipulated. For example, scroll through images of your mom or dad, what do you think a random person on the street would think of them if they found one of…

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  • Deepsea Challenge 3D

    Deepsea Challenge 3D

    ★★★½

    but imagine doing this with the superior steering of an Xbox controller

  • The Boy and the Heron

    The Boy and the Heron

    ★★½

    Don’t believe the hype.

    Absolutely gorgeous, but lacking the coherency and salience of his previous movies. But arguably the most visually and technically stunning movie they’ve ever done, clearly taking everything they’ve tried before and elevating it to the next level.