Favorite films
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Middy 17. The film has got a nice core of an idea, an insanely enjoyable RPatt, but an overblown script with stale politics, and really rough third act (shoutout K man, shoutout Mike) pacing constantly drown out what works best. It does have absolute galaxy brain/god tier needle drop though and sometimes that’s enough. (enjoyed this overall! Just expect more)
In an early short, one of the few, if not the only one, that features a moving camera, the out-of-focus lights of the distant city serve as the backdrop that two distinct beams of light rapidly emerge from and move up frame. As they get closer we see they are headlights and inside the car, as it fully enters the foreground, two lovers, him resting his head on her shoulder while she careens through the night, come into focus. In a photo book of a film, it seems like Ackerman lays her thesis out here; in the quietest moments of the night, all is revealed.
The apartment at then end, as is, rents for $5400 in SF today.