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The Man Who Killed Don Quixote (2018, Terry Gilliam)
The Stop Button Posted by on Aug 10, 2019
The Man Who Killed Don Quixote opens with a “twenty-five years in the making” title card; it seems for every year it took director Gilliam to get the film made, he added another ending. Don has a troubled third act, with Gilliam and co-writer Tony Grisoni tacking on false ending after false ending, read more
The Man Who Killed Don Quixote (2018, Terry Gilliam)
The Stop Button Posted by on Aug 10, 2019
The Man Who Killed Don Quixote opens with a “twenty-five years in the making” title card; it seems for every year it took director Gilliam to get the film made, he added another ending. Don has a troubled third act, with Gilliam and co-writer Tony Grisoni tacking on false ending after false ending, read more
The Laboratory of Fear (1971, Patrice Leconte)
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Aug 8, 2019
The Laboratory of Fear is all about expectation. For the short’s eleven minutes, writer and director Leconte wants the audience to expect something. Lots of foreshadowing. Some of it matters, some of it is red herring. The short opens very documentary-like, with a voice over explaining the modern read more
The Laboratory of Fear (1971, Patrice Leconte)
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Aug 8, 2019
The Laboratory of Fear is all about expectation. For the short’s eleven minutes, writer and director Leconte wants the audience to expect something. Lots of foreshadowing. Some of it matters, some of it is red herring. The short opens very documentary-like, with a voice over explaining the modern read more
The Laboratory of Fear (1971, Patrice Leconte)
The Stop Button Posted by on Aug 8, 2019
The Laboratory of Fear is all about expectation. For the short’s eleven minutes, writer and director Leconte wants the audience to expect something. Lots of foreshadowing. Some of it matters, some of it is red herring. The short opens very documentary-like, with a voice over explaining the modern read more
The Laboratory of Fear (1971, Patrice Leconte)
The Stop Button Posted by on Aug 8, 2019
The Laboratory of Fear is all about expectation. For the short’s eleven minutes, writer and director Leconte wants the audience to expect something. Lots of foreshadowing. Some of it matters, some of it is red herring. The short opens very documentary-like, with a voice over explaining the modern read more
Angola Janga
The Stop Button Posted by on Aug 7, 2019
Angola Janga is historical fiction. It falls victim to a few of the genre’s main pitfalls. Cartoonist Marcelo D'Salete has done his research, he knows all the facts. And he moves within them. With the single exception of flashing forward to modern-day, urban Brazil (which turns out to be a bad read more
Une histoire d’eau (1961, François Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard)
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Aug 6, 2019
Une histoire d’eau has a sense of humor, which ought to do it some favors, but none of the humor connects. The short, which co-director Truffaut apparently intended to be a romance, is instead this rushed, peculiar… blathering would be the best word for it, I think. D’Eau is about college student read more
Une histoire d’eau (1961, François Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard)
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Aug 6, 2019
Une histoire d’eau has a sense of humor, which ought to do it some favors, but none of the humor connects. The short, which co-director Truffaut apparently intended to be a romance, is instead this rushed, peculiar… blathering would be the best word for it, I think. D’Eau is about college student read more
Une histoire d’eau (1961, François Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard)
The Stop Button Posted by on Aug 6, 2019
Une histoire d’eau has a sense of humor, which ought to do it some favors, but none of the humor connects. The short, which co-director Truffaut apparently intended to be a romance, is instead this rushed, peculiar… blathering would be the best word for it, I think. D’Eau is about college student read more
Une histoire d’eau (1961, François Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard)
The Stop Button Posted by on Aug 6, 2019
Une histoire d’eau has a sense of humor, which ought to do it some favors, but none of the humor connects. The short, which co-director Truffaut apparently intended to be a romance, is instead this rushed, peculiar… blathering would be the best word for it, I think. D’Eau is about college student read more
Superbad (2007, Greg Mottola), the unrated version
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Aug 4, 2019
Superbad is exceptionally funny. In terms of how often you lose your breath from laughing, it’s hard to think of a better movie than Superbad. Watching Superbad probably burns between 118 and 315 calories. This unrated version anyway. The rated version would burn about four minutes less. Next time read more
Superbad (2007, Greg Mottola), the unrated version
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Aug 4, 2019
Superbad is exceptionally funny. In terms of how often you lose your breath from laughing, it’s hard to think of a better movie than Superbad. Watching Superbad probably burns between 118 and 315 calories. This unrated version anyway. The rated version would burn about four minutes less. Next time read more
Superbad (2007, Greg Mottola), the unrated version
The Stop Button Posted by on Aug 4, 2019
Superbad is exceptionally funny. In terms of how often you lose your breath from laughing, it’s hard to think of a better movie than Superbad. Watching Superbad probably burns between 118 and 315 calories. This unrated version anyway. The rated version would burn about four minutes less. Next time read more
Superbad (2007, Greg Mottola), the unrated version
The Stop Button Posted by on Aug 4, 2019
Superbad is exceptionally funny. In terms of how often you lose your breath from laughing, it’s hard to think of a better movie than Superbad. Watching Superbad probably burns between 118 and 315 calories. This unrated version anyway. The rated version would burn about four minutes less. Next time read more
Gregory’s Girl (1980, Bill Forsyth)
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Aug 2, 2019
At no point in Gregory’s Girl does writer and director Forsyth wait for the audience. He’s not hurried, he’s not hostile, he’s just not repeating himself. Ever. The result is a whimsical but grounded film, not exploring much more than its characters could handle and often tr read more
Gregory’s Girl (1980, Bill Forsyth)
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Aug 2, 2019
At no point in Gregory's Girl does writer and director Forsyth wait for the audience. He's not hurried, he's not hostile, he's just not repeating himself. Ever. The result is a whimsical but grounded film, not exploring much more than its characters could handle and often trying read more
Gregory’s Girl (1980, Bill Forsyth)
The Stop Button Posted by on Aug 2, 2019
At no point in Gregory’s Girl does writer and director Forsyth wait for the audience. He’s not hurried, he’s not hostile, he’s just not repeating himself. Ever. The result is a whimsical but grounded film, not exploring much more than its characters could handle and often tr read more
Gregory’s Girl (1980, Bill Forsyth)
The Stop Button Posted by on Aug 2, 2019
At no point in Gregory’s Girl does writer and director Forsyth wait for the audience. He’s not hurried, he’s not hostile, he’s just not repeating himself. Ever. The result is a whimsical but grounded film, not exploring much more than its characters could handle and often tr read more
Le coup du berger (1956, Jacques Rivette)
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Jul 31, 2019
I wish Le coup du berger had some kind of subtitle, like An Experiment in Head Room. Something to acknowledge the short’s constant issues with framing. It’s not clear who’s responsibly for the lousy head room. Director Rivette is the obvious culprit; there are a lot of shots where people move read more