Favorite films
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
I broke nearly 20 years of tarantino abstinence to watch this. As a thesis, "wouldn't it be nice fi schluby fail-sons would do something to prevent bad outcomes, but not have to change their behavior in any way" is a weak philosophical stance.
"every time i speak it's just like hal hartley kicked you in the kidney" - Bitesize, BTO
This movie is beautiful and clunky and so very 1990.
It starts and ends with a hand grenade, and covers most of the central ToK epistemological concepts.
This is why I am not allowed to teach ToK
You can watch Schizopolis like Kentucky Fried Movie or Python's Meaning of Life, or any other collection of sketches. It works like that.
Generic Greeting works as a punch line, so does "I feel so strongly about mayonaise," "Nose army." The RaceHorse AntiDefemation League is exactly 15 seconds worth of sketch idea, and Soderbergh gets points for giving exactly that much screentime and no more.
The obligatory backstory is that after one big debut indie hit, Soderbergh had made two…