For me, this film is so vastly superior to Ken Russell’s TOMMY (bless his psychedelic little heart). QUADROPHENIA is truly a marvel of period detail and of evoking the music that inspired it, without slavishly turning into some extended The Who music video or a maddeningly / intermittently engaging Classic Rock Musical (a la the former example). And the cast is 😘🤌🛵
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Wild at Heart 1990
This winding, dangerous odyssey of 2 young lovers from Cape Fear in the Carolinas to Southern California is a surreal treat for fans of David Lynch. There were so many road movies like this during that period of cinema: from Bonnie and Clyde and Badlands and later on Thelma and Louise, True Romance, and Natural Born Killers, etc. It’s interesting to view it decades later.
Lynch/Oz is a very interesting analysis of Lynch’s themes, motifs, & obsessions, but this ur-text for the entire thesis still…
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Strange Behavior 1981
What a buried gem. I’d never even heard of this film before it showed up in the Criterion Channel’s 80s Horror collection.
About 30 minutes into this US / New Zealand joint production, a pastiche of 1950s “teens-in-peril” sci-fi and late-1970s body-count slasher films, Strange Behavior (aka Dead Kids) just seizes the drive-in-theater mantle of the former and stages a jaw-droppingly entertaining, highly-choreographed dance number at a 1960s Hit-TV-themed costume party. Set to Lou Christie’s classic Wall of Sound-type hit,…
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Bob Roberts 1992
Trump gets shot at by someone who seems like his follower.
Jack Black, who debuted in this film as a proto-MAGA Bob Roberts cultist, just this week sold his longtime partner from Tenacious D, Kyle Gass, down the river for saying — punk-rock gallows humor — what a lot of folks have clearly been thinking. (Bad timing Kyle, but Jaybles, your progressive bonafides are likewise taking a hit these past several months!)
This film anticipates those sorts of headlines.
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