joeayres

joeayres

Favorite films

  • The Earrings of Madame de...
  • Vagabond
  • They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
  • Punch-Drunk Love

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  • Eephus

  • The Assessment

  • Ash

  • The End of Violence

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  • Eephus

    Eephus

    Intro and post-film q&a from writer/director Carson Lund. Somehow didn’t think of this until he mentioned it as a reference, but this truly is the Goodbye, Dragon Inn of baseball movies. And it’s beautiful wonderful stuff. Makes me wanna play some ball. Ends on Tom Waits’s Ol’ 55. Can’t beat that.

  • The Assessment

    The Assessment

    I found the assessment very amusing.

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  • The 8th Annual Live 'On Cinema' Oscar Special

    The 8th Annual Live 'On Cinema' Oscar Special

    5 bags of popcorn and maybe a tiny little coffin for the rat that Tim murdered.

    Another incredible unparalleled experience. Brilliant and bizarre images are cast up on screen while men suffer in the personal hells they build and maintain and it's all shot and edited as it's happening live. On Cinema has always been an intriguingly participatory and modular work, and this special went even further into this vein of digital aesthetics which required invested viewers to run two…

  • The 12th Annual On Cinema Oscar Special

    The 12th Annual On Cinema Oscar Special

    Even after the official Oscars broadcast attempted to steal faithful viewers away (Bond tribute for unclear reasons, celebration of the 20th anniversary of Kill Bill Vol. II, return of Billy Crystal), the Hei Network/VHS holds strong. The Oscars on ABC didn’t have the premiere of the movie formerly based on an original idea by Gregg Turkington, didn’t have Jeremy (and Eric!) Roberts, didn’t have Runtime Relay. Both did have members of the fire department involved though, got us there. Wanted…