Today was the last day that I ever stepped foot in a movie theater. Fuck them. Fuck people, and fuck art. Let it all burn. Let theaters go out of business and let the industry collapse. Unless I can somehow make enough money to buy my own personal theater, I’ll never see a film again. (If anybody wants to go in on one, we can take turns using it.) Human beings are a plague. Fuck it, I’m going to start…
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Hard Truths 2024
(A few weeks ago, I attended a screening of Possession. I wanted so badly for this screening to go well and remain uninterrupted, that I said to the god I don’t believe in, “Just give me this one screening and I’ll never ask for anything again.” Almost the next day, every screening I attended was plagued by noise-makers that forced me out of the theater. This was after just over a year without a single walkout, and I went to…
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The Zone of Interest 2023
Like Under the Skin, The Zone of Interest represents a rare instance in which a conceptually "thick" experimental film also hits hard on an emotional level. Glazer is often speciously compared to Kubrick: can a filmmaker who cares about light, framing, and aggressive soundtracks ever move outside of that long shadow? Maybe not.
However, Glazer's insistence on instilling ostensibly commercial narratives with elements of mystery, wonder, and technical sophistication does broadly align with Kubrick's modus operandi. Glazer now has three masterpieces (Birth, Under the Skin, The Zone of Interest) and one very good film (Sexy Beast) under his belt. Here's to many more.
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The Rapture 1991
Spoilery.
An absolutely jarring and mind-bending mixture of romance, cosmic tragedy, and farce, the film paradoxically seems to gain power the more it holds you at a distance (a real Noli Me Tangere situation). Larry Cohen's work seems like a precedent, if only for the fearlessness of the filmmaking and the tendency to bring quotidian reality together with that which is utterly bewildering. Otherwise, there’s really nothing else like this.
Mimi Rogers is a magnetic presence, turning in a performance…
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