Some incredible drunk-guy gags in this one, but they’re really sold by Harold Lloyd’s bewildered expression. Great way to spend 25 minutes.

Sadly, they catered to the dolts way too much on this one.

At least a third of the documentary is underlining the importance of John Williams or music in general, as if you were talking to a feral child. Almost completely uninterested in how John Williams’ scores work, outside of the bluntest explanations of leitmotifs. Instead, we get the Disney mantra: “Remember this?”

I watched this a bunch on DVD, but hadn’t seen it in a decade and never on blu-ray until today. Astoundingly good looking, the way Kubrick films faces. I never appreciated how great the music and sound work was, especially now that the mainstream has caught up to Kubrick’s style here. Nicholson is legit upsetting and enthralling at the same time. Also now that I’ve seen Apocalypse Now, I love how Kubrick uses optical dissolves in the same dreamlike transitions. Incredible stuff.

I hadn’t seen this in several years, and completely forgot how entertaining Daniel and Eli’s passive-aggressive snipes were: a wonderful bit of fun on top of the colossal thematic and visual material that otherwise dominates the films. Amazing that a naturalistically-filmed piece has room for such surreal, almost lynchian imagery as men dumping buckets of oil into a pool on the ground. And so many of the scenes dip into being both genuinely dramatic and amusingly wry, a wild combo to experience.

Dano deserved AT LEAST a best supporting actor nom from the academy for this film.