I laugh in the face of Letterboxd's definition of "streak" as "at least one film per week".
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Videodrome 1983
See you in Pittsburgh
The real horror of Videodrome is the idea that it is a broadcast emanating from the United States that is not vetted by the CRTC.
How does what we watch shape us and define us? Are we morally culpable for what we see or choose to see and consequently think? Is the line between thinking and doing as clear cut as we'd like to believe when our senses can lie to us? There's definitely a lot of meta-awareness in the line "Why would anybody watch a scum show like Videodrome?"
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In the Mood for Love 2000
I feel like I cold just leave my TV paused at even the most incidental moments and leave it that way all day. Every frame is beautiful to look at. This is before you add the languid motion of the camera, or characters as they ascend and descend staircases, or smoke rising into the light. The music! It takes a special piece that you can use so heavily, and this one definitely works. Curious to see the original movie it's…
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Mommy 2014
I'm going to set aside that surrendering your child to a hospital would clearly provincial and not federal jurisdiction. This was intense. People are flawed, often times intolerably so. But they can still have their moments that remind us of our own compassion. These characters are portrayed in a way that it's hard not to feel for everyone here. While the aspect ratio trick was well played, this felt more cinematically understated than Laurence Anyways. Maybe it's just more subtle…
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Happiness Bound 2007
The holy grail of Denis Villeneuve completionists. Out of print. No English subtitles to be had anywhere. I machine translated the closed captions and added my own subtitles for the on-screen text with the help of Google translate and ChatGPT. I spent more time on this than I care to admit, and some of the translations are still probably pretty atrocious, but I think I appreciate it a bit more for it. I also learned more about Quebec swear words…
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Killers of the Flower Moon 2023
Wow, does Lily Gladstone ever have a presence. I want to watch her final scene again.
This stands out against other Scorsese crime films. It brings a broader political context to his typical flawed characters doing bad to horrible things. Most interestingly it really does bring to the fore the kind of extreme cognitive dissonance it takes not just to do horrible things and still feel like a human, but to be a part of a broader culture of criminality.…
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