I love to see Mann challenging himself and making bold, innovative choices here a decade after pulling off what he did with Heat. His coyote scene (😎), his savvy uses of Foxx/Cruise/Ruffalo, his industry-leading choice of early HD digital video (which looks SO sick, like a Timbaland music video in the best way)- I’m here for it all. And NOBODY shoots LA like Mann.
I can’t wait to watch more from him not only because he slickly blends action movie…
Half watched bc I was falling asleep but logging to share this story. Last week my parents put this on and one of my cats watched intently for most of the movie and peed on the carpet out of distress. Putting myself in his shoes I now understand his reaction, especially since the Flow cat looks just like our other cat. Leo’s first horror movie
[Harvard Film Archive, 35mm]
Beautiful print. PTA commands this aesthetic experience. Barry’s world engrosses us as we confront his bracing, hostile anxiety and gooey, childlike tenderness. Vibrant fujifilm colors melt into animations and back again. Jon Brion’s soundtrack mixes with Barry’s harmonium noodling. Short and so sweet.
Like in Phantom Thread (the only other of his I’ve seen), PTA heavy-handedly injects himself into his protagonist, extending my reflection on Punch-Drunk Love beyond the work itself. It was weird to learn…
Humbly untouchable and abyssal and disruptively truth-telling. Bong Joon Ho’s affect is so acute moment to moment that the film feels tightly woven to the fabric of his being. A masterpiece, and not his last.
I was inspired by rereading Chris’ review to look up the convo he saw live between Song Kang Ho and Steven Yeun at the Geffen Theater. Memories of Murder is “a true representation of the painful modern history in Korea at the time,” Song mentions,…
