Synech-Tóth-e, New York.
It’s 11 PM in the Greatest City on Earth. I just got out of The Brutalist, and I have to express my thoughts now, knowing full well that I have to be wide awake in about 6 hours. I’ve been a fan of Brady Corbet’s acting credits for quite some time now (Funny Games US, Mysterious Skin), and I haven’t seen his other directorial efforts. But with The Brutalist, Corbet has crafted one of the most singular…
Seeing this with a packed crowd, with Tommy Wiseau in attendance, getting to ask him a question, getting to catch a football with him where he signed my Blu-ray copy of The Room felt like a true full-circle moment for me. I remember first seeing this film about 15 years ago, seeing it many times since then, showing friends and such, but it never left my mind.
The Room is a confounding film, oftentimes messy and inept in its filming…
My friend needed her inhaler during this film...twice. If that's not a glowing endorsement, I don't know what is.
No hay banda! Film is an illusion. The images on our screen are all an illusion, and as experienced viewers we know this. And yet, we're still left in awe every time. But film can also help us cope with the realities of our world, whether our lives be mundane, unfulfilled, even frustrating. Diane is the manifestation of that, her life crumbling apart, her reality shattered, guilt and shame rising to the surface. But she constructs a cinematic world, in…
My brother Joe came to visit and picked this film off the shelf. I hadn't seen it in years but on second watch, I think this is one of the most daring, darkly funny, and woefully misunderstood films A24 has released. The fact that anyone takes this as seriously as they do is insane to me, given how it's so obviously a parody/send-up of old Hollywood filmmaking a la Hitchcock and Altman and a skewering of noirs, with an incredibly…
