MarkVenema

MarkVenema

Favorite films

  • Dark Star
  • Apocalypse Now
  • 2001: A Space Odyssey
  • Citizen Kane

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  • The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
  • Fearless
  • Altered States
  • Brazil

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  • The Ballad of Buster Scruggs

    The Ballad of Buster Scruggs

    ★★★★

    A beautifully photographed anthology film, with some of its short stories better realized than others. "The Girl Who Got Rattled" is probably the strongest, most effective of the tales told here, but the opening of "All Gold Canyon" singlehandedly flashed me straight back to the suicide-parlor scene in "Soylent Green", where Edward G. Robinson's character is euthanized while being shown Cinemascope images of a pristine mountains, forests and waters "unsullied by the hands of man". Wherever that breath-taking valley is (outside Telluride, I think), I want to GO there!

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