Kelly Reichardt's attempt to capture life in the Northwest frontier to be very interesting. The unique diversity of the region during this period is cool to see represented on film.
I see some interesting parallel's here with Reichardt's Certain Women, which I watched recently. Where Certain Women seems to reassert the authentic role of women in the American West, this film challenges the rough and gruff norms of masculinity that are almost universally ascribed to the history of the West…
I haven't seen Greta Gerwig reference this movie at all, but there's no way that this wasn't an inspiration for the Barbie movie in one way or another.
Fun cult horror movie that is endlessly quotable. The final scene in the supermarket is iconic.
As Blue Collar opens, we are shown various scenes from across an automobile plant with the loud bluesy riffs from 'Hard Workin' Man' blaring over the top of the industrial sounds of car manufacturing. Every ten seconds or so of the opening credits, all instruments in the song cut out except for the rhythmic pounding of what is ambiguously either a drum beat or an industrial machine. A few seconds pass, and then the song picks back up again. This…
I can’t believe it’s taken me this long to see this movie. It’s got everything I could possibly ask for, but even then, I was totally caught off guard by just how amazing it was.
Although he was working from a key piece of lesbian literature, it’s abundantly clear that Todd Haynes did his homework when it came to understanding and representing the experiences of middle (and upper) class lesbians at the mid century. The not-so-hidden nature of the interactions…
