Damned near cinematic perfection by way of Carol Reed, Joseph Cotton, and Orson Welles.
Back to Basics – SE7EN
Apathy isn’t a deadly sin, but sometimes it feels like it should be.
Back to Basics – TOP GUN
Oh how the mighty do fall…
Back to Basics – THE ADVENTURES OF PRISCILLA, QUEEN OF THE DESERT
You’ll never look at a ping pong ball the same way again.
Back to Basics – THE LAST PICTURE SHOW
At the risk of sounding stuck up, I’ve always maintained that I could spend several months in a small town, but couldn’t ever live in one permanently.
Back to Basics – MULHOLLAND DRIVE
The fact that this film is beginning to make sense to me might be a sign that I’ve watched it too many times.
Back to Basics – MANHATTAN
The city Woody Allen wrote about no longer exists. It has been gentrified, homogenized, sanitized, and Disneyfied. At one point in the film while watching a historic building get gutted, Isaac says that the city is really changing. Well if he thought that was change, I wonder what he’d even recognize the city to come sixteen years later.