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A Skin Too Few: The Days of Nick Drake 2002
Short, melodic, consistently melancholy, with — for the most part — a unique and distant visual approach. (Some shots almost look like they were made on Sirkian sets, but I think they’re actually his former home).
It’s about as Nick Drake as a Nick Drake documentary can be.
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Loving 1970
“Loving” was shot by Gordon Willis, so it doesn't exactly look like “Mad Men,” but with its boozy protagonist -- a difficult, philandering NYC advertising man -- it certainly feels like “Mad Men,” maybe right around Season 7.
And as the back-end of S7 takes place from April to November 1970, and “Loving” was released in March 1970, it's entirely possible Don Draper could've gone to see “Loving” (after all, as Don says in “The Suitcase” and at other points in…
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Radical Wolfe 2023
Look, it's a doc that attempts to examine the long life and the dozen or so major works of a significant writer in… 75 minutes.
It is what you'd expect: Greatest hits structure — the early days, Tangerine, Acid Test, pissing off the Bernsteins, the Right Stuff, Bonfire, the decline, dead at 88 and, within all that, damn is Michael Lewis a fan.
But, shit, if you're not gonna go six hours on something like this stuff, then at least…
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Twisted Nerve 1968
I’ve wanted to see this for years and finally found it on Plex, liberally peppered with 3-minute ads for Amazon and weight loss injections.
The movie itself has got a great period look to it, with elaborate sets and muted pastels; there’s the iconic Herrmann score; Mills is endlessly dreamy, Whitelaw simmers so intensely she practically gives off heat waves and Bennett gets tons of mileage out of the eyebrows he arches above his evil cherub face.
But the movie…
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