The whimsy of this film is at such a level that if it were revealed that the screenplay was actually written by a seventh-grade creative writing class experimenting with the exquisite corpse, I wouldn't be too surprised. So much of it is absurd, but you can't be mad about it because everyone, including the production designer and art director, is so disarmingly charming that you just must succumb to it. Bowie of course is the most alluring of all ingredients and makes the movie, but Roseanna Arquette and the mise-en-scene are worth saviouring, too. For a "bad movie," it's pretty tasty.
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Chilly Scenes of Winter 1979
I was really in the mood for a movie from this era that had this kind of pace, and I enjoyed watching it, but it didn't rock my world. The male protagonist seemed so immature, which was likely the point, but it was kind of hard to watch him idealizing this poor woman and trying to possess her, and then showing so much confusion and desperation when things didn't work out. The performances were good, and there were some fun…
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Into Eternity: A Film for the Future 2010
Into Eternity is a rare example of a gothic conditional future tense documentary (perhaps the only one?). It asks us to consider our species on a grand geological scale. What would happen if we buried our most dangerous substances to keep them from harming future generations, but we...
1. forgot about it and future humans stumble upon it unknowingly?
2. are able to remember it's there and future humans decide to dig it up to use against each other?
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