John Glover is doing such a weird little voice in this. John Malkovich and Robert Pattinson owe their whole careers of weird little voices to this weird little voice.
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Singin' in the Rain 1952
Earlier today, I was reading this Kenneth Tynan piece about Louise Brooks, the silent film star who disappeared from screens after 1938. It's less a profile than an act of erotic imagination—obsessive, manipulative, exposing, adoring. He wants to track down "the only star actress I can imagine either being enslaved by or wanting to enslave; and a dark lady worthy of any poet’s devotion." Now she's an agoraphobic, anorexic, mostly recovered alcoholic, now she's in her seventies, living in a…
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Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me 1992
Fire Walk With Me isn’t a mystery at all, or the solution to one; it’s about the way we look away from terrible trauma, and we sigh self righteously, and we call these things inexplicable, unanswerable, mysteries without solutions, and how when we play detective afterward we’re just covering up our own complicity. Fire Walk With Me happens every day, and that’s the horror of it.
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