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Wild at Heart 1990
Maybe my favorite ensemble in any Lynch film. Really picks up steam once Cage & Dern get on the road. As much as I love certain sequences though (ex: Crispin Glover’s entire bit) there were probably some cuts that could’ve been made. The first 20-30 minutes are kind of a mess.
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The Swimmer 1968
Burt Lancaster’s backyard pool-hopping odyssey across a WASP infested Connecticut landscape filled with yuppies (and nudists) of all stripes. I feel like it’s a minor miracle that this film works as well as it does; so fucking bizarre. The over the top melodramatic score marrying itself to the surreal disintegration of a bourgeois philanderer somehow works even when you’re rolling your eyes at some of the cues. The acting veers from heightened to realistic from scene to scene and yet…
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Licorice Pizza 2021
There’s a lot I really liked about this. Gorgeously shot, impeccable needle drops, some really wonderful casting throughout beyond the stellar leads (Sean Penn, Tom Waits, Bradley Cooper, and special shout to the casting lady played by Harriet Harris) and a fun, loose vibe throughout. Alana was the more interesting of the two leads, her interior life getting a lot more time and effort than Gary’s. Hoffman played the cocky teenager to a tee and manages to stay relatively endearing despite…
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