Actress Zoë Kravitz's directorial debut, Blink Twice, is a fun and controversial "eat the rich" movie that also serves as a metaphor for how the patriarchal elite control the money, diet, media, drugs, body care regimen, and memories of the peons below them, repackaging trauma into a constant source of conspicuously-consumed "forgetting" that's guaranteed to keep us all "in our place." It's also an allegory for what is referred to in the culture as "Epstein Island," the place where the…
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The Conversation 1974
Harry Caul sure as shit ain't getting his security deposit money back.
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The Two Mrs. Carrolls 1947
The Two Mrs. Carrolls is a strange project that never really hits its stride despite starring two legends in Humphrey Bogart and Barbara Stanwyck. In it, Bogart plays Geoffrey, an artist who falls in love with Sally (Stanwyck) while on a trip to Scotland. Turns out he's already married though. Oops! After getting a little murdery, he re-marries to Sally. When their relationship "peaks," Bogart loses his artistic inspiration. Then he meets Cecily (Alexis Smith). Now Geoffrey's gotta get some…
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The Getaway 1972
Maybe I'm going to lose any Letterboxd cred I have with this one, because I'm going lay a pretty bad hand on the table. I found out about The Getaway from Quentin Tarantino's glowing assessment of it in his book Cinema Speculation (2022). I went into it knowing at least one thing about myself: I'm not a fan of the movies directed by Sam Peckinpah. Of the half-dozen or so I've seen, the only one that really clicks for me…
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