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saw this last week and keep forgetting to write it up.  first i was amazed he did the whole thing in video, and certainly appreciate that.  i was pretty scared of the 3 hour running time, but it wasn’t too bad.  i guess relative to mulholland drive i liked this one less.  md seemed a […]

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The Assassination of Richard Nixon (2004)
zebras

Posted on April 18th, 2007

there just wasn’t much movie here. so many artsy shots of bicke moping around his apartment to show his alienation, and they were definitely too enamored with the cinematography. there was a long stretch there when he’s waiting for his loan that just draaaaged. i guess it hurt a lot that they […]

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Fah talai jone (2000)
tears of the black tiger

Posted on April 18th, 2007

i’d been wanting to see this for a long time, then out of nowhere they show it at starz.  camp always wears me out pretty quick, so the seriousness and earnestness of the tone really helps this along.  yeah, there’s silly stuff, but for the most part this could be a straightforward movie.  basically, this […]

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very well done and all, but the overall concept of trumping all the perversity of chinatown-esque noir with racism, showing its greater power and pervasiveness is really impressive. i guess that’s why la confidential got so much acclaim compared to this - they attacked the genre like they were doing something new but devil […]

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i typically don’t like twist-y movies, but this was fun and entertaining, and the twist made at least some amount of sense.  a bit too heavy on the introspective ‘what should i do?’ scenes, but they helped sell things.

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i saw kaman play last night for the first time in ages. apparently he cut his hair at some point, so i guess it’s time to retire this list.

The Rocky Horror Picture Show - Riff Raff
The Money Pit - Max Beissart, the Maestro
“Little Britain” - Andy

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this was solid and well-done.  the crew’s talking to each other got in the way and could have been funnier if it had been quicker and subtler.  things really dragged when there was the whole ‘finding out about reno’ drama and it felt pretty manufactured, not organic.  the transitions from video to movie were pretty […]

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this was really wild and pretty exceptional in a lot of ways.  my main complaints: the ‘fight’ was lame; nearly every scene was overlit; the ending was too much; and joe and compton were occasionally too straw-dogish.  joe is obviously established to be way over-the-top but it would have been a lot more impactful to […]

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