Prescient drama about paranoia and panic in the face of eroding privacy in a rapidly technologically advancing world. Hackman brings a kind of timid anxiety and brokenness I’ve never seen from him before and his spiral into paranoid terror is both understandable and tragic. Very lowkey direction from Coppola, a fun reminder that he used to be able to do that, also featuring some brilliant writing and a strong supporting cast. The pace drags a little for my taste but…
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Blue Collar 1978
Bleak bleak fucking piece of working class drama from legendary screenwriter and debuting director Paul Schrader. People with authority will do absolutely anything they can to obstruct solidarity and upward mobility for those subordinate to them, not for some grand nefarious design but to preserve a shitty, mediocre status quo for the benefit of shitty, mediocre people. Nothing changes, nothing gets better. It’s got Paul Schrader’s fingerprints all over it and even if it’s a little rough around the edges,…
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SLC Punk 1998
This is still a deeply personal, emotional film for me and even on this, my umpteenth rewatch, I was still hit hard by the ending. I also can’t help but admire the way this film manages to make its characters feel like people you know instead of just strangers on a screen. Always worth watching.
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Hazard 2005
“Welcome to New York, fuck you.”
One day, Japanese mastermind director Sion Sono will come out with a movie that doesn’t absolutely surprise me. That day, fortunately, is not today. I’m used to Japanese films based in the US or featuring American characters being pretty cringey, Sunny Gets Blue comes to mind, but Hazard is a different kind of beast entirely, Hazard knows what it’s doing.
Hazard follows the exploits of the aptly named Shin (Joe Odagiri), a disillusioned 20…
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