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Ghost on the Highway: A Portrait of Jeffrey Lee Pierce and The Gun Club 2006
The only people interviewed with any insight were Kid Congo and John Doe.
The documentary served more as a vehicle for the drummer to air his misgivings and offer limp 'edgy' takes on everything.
Poor film about a great artist. JLP deserves better, and a more contemporary/empathic look could be great.
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Sleep Tight 2011
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When it first is revealed Cesar sleeps in a women’s bed without her knowledge, the implication is sexual assault. That the movie then seemingly subverts this expectation comes as a relief and promises an awareness of audience sensibilities that is eventually betrayed. For its first half, Sleep Tight is a middling black comedy. Come to find out Cesar lives to make others miserable. Clara, whose bed he sleeps in, serves as a nemesis of sorts, the one person he is…
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The Swimmer 1968
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A garish, discordant movie made right at the pivot away from Hollywood's gaudy, formulaic and subtext heavy melodramas to the New Hollywood that threw it all away. The Swimmer is deliriously neither and was fated to be a cinematic oddity.
It wasn't surprising to find that the movie went through a couple different directors and was a tense shoot. Every scene feels as though it's been cut and recut in hopes of finding itself--continuity be damned. It plays like a…
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