Eric Roberts as’ Paul Snider is among the most stunning & unforgettable performance in cinema history. He commits fully to depicting the sweaty, lecherous, disgusting,, ambition of his abusive small-time hustler character. Never had an actor so fully embodied the vicious desperation & frantic monomania of a pathetic loser who will go at any lengths to try and prove he is a winner. Robert’s’ pulls off a rare feat of presenting Snider as hauntingly contemptible & repulsive, and in doing so, also captures a very humanizing sadness that haunts the whole being of a cruel & worthless shell of a man.
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Videodrome 1983
“Your reality is already half video hallucination. If you're not careful, it will become total hallucination. You'll have to learn to live in a very strange new world”
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Beau Travail 1999
A lot has been written about the significance of letting women tell stories about women, but Beau Travail makes a case for the underrated significance of women telling stories about men. Claire Denis depicts the bodies and movements of her male characters with a grace and femininity that I suspect most male filmmakers are too self conscious to attempt. Beau Travail pushes past its “gay panic” subject matter and into a meditation on the beauty and violence of men. In…
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Pretty Maids All in a Row 1971
Is Pretty Maids All In A Row actually the greatest film of all time? The answer is unequivocally YES.
But honestly, I don’t think I’ve ever had as much fun watching a movie as I had watching this film. Pretty Maids All In A Row hits the perfect note between smart satire and incredibly dumb sexploitation flick. It’s a 1970s softcore drive-in B movie, but with a competent director and starring cast.
The film’s opening sequence of sexy mini skirt clad…
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