I vividly remember watching The Godfather I & II during lockdown 2020. If you were to ask me what I loved most, I’d ramble off iconic scenes from Part I - the gun and the cannoli, the horse head, the car bomb… You know, the moments that come to mind when you think “GODFATHER”
I also remember not enjoying Part II.
Four years later I got the pleasure of revisiting this classic and I can now say for certain that I never…
Only becoming more and more relavant (and better and better too)
I honestly just don’t like how sad this really is. How kind of fucked up it is that they made an entire doc about a guy who’s clearly struggling with signifcant mental illness. He literally says “this is all you need in life” with a pill in his hand. And all his friends and all the radio hosts do is sit and laugh. It’s crazy.
This does not feel like it was made out of respect for Juice. It honestly…
The American Utopia: Past The Picket Fence
Blue Velvet does the “nightmare in suburbia” trope better than anyone else. But among company such as Donnie Darko, Carrie, and Greener Grass how does Lynch manage to do this? What makes Blue Velvet’s curtain pull more successful than any other film in the genre?
The feeling.
A general rule to David Lynch’s filmography is to set about experiencing his movies. Don’t pick them apart or judgmentally point out flaws. That’s not the…
