#3 on The Big David Cronenberg Filmography Run
Stereo (...) is an experiment about an experiment. It’s a mockumentary about a group of college students given telepathy, and how they react to that in a controlled environment. It’s nice to see a more confident David Cronenberg behind the camera, as there are some genuinely cool shots in here, but there is ultimately such a dearth of ‘content’, for lack of a better word, that it is genuinely hard to talk…
#2 on The Big David Cronenberg Filmography Run
One of the best parts about watching the early student work of a director is getting to see what they learn from short to short. No artist ever stops learning, but in the early development stages the effects new knowledge can bring tend to be more drastic. Thus, it should come as no surprise that Cronenberg’s second student film is much more technically adept than the first, even if From the Drain…
#10 on The Big Scorsese Filmography Run
Between 1970 and 1976, the population of New York City declined 5.6%, and in total almost a million people emigrated from the city by the end of the decade. There were approximately 13,000 murder cases during this time, and thousands more incidents involving rape, robbery, prostitution, and assault. The city was in freefall, brought on by economic crises and systemic corruption, and the people of New York suffered greatly as a result. Drug…
Week 3 for the FSDO2024 Weekly Challenge
Like any movie about boxing that wishes it was not about boxing, Tokyo Fist is really about toxic masculinity. Unlike any of those other boxing movies, this one is directed by Shinya Tsukamoto, whose unique style I'm still trying to acclimatize myself to. (As of writing this, I still haven't seen Tetsuo or any of his other movies. Some sort of sacrilege, I assume!) I'm kind of reminded of Edgar Wright, especially in…
