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The Straight Story (1999, David Lynch)
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Jun 8, 2019
The Straight Story wants to present its characters as real, but it then exaggerates their reality. They’re better than real. Superior imitations. And it’s the film’s undoing. Well, and the music. The eschewing of cartoon for caricature and the Angelo Badalamenti score. It is not the music to tell read more
The Straight Story (1999, David Lynch)
The Stop Button Posted by on Jun 8, 2019
The Straight Story wants to present its characters as real, but it then exaggerates their reality. They’re better than real. Superior imitations. And it’s the film’s undoing. Well, and the music. The eschewing of cartoon for caricature and the Angelo Badalamenti score. It is not the music to tell read more
The Straight Story (1999, David Lynch)
The Stop Button Posted by on Jun 8, 2019
The Straight Story wants to present its characters as real, but it then exaggerates their reality. They’re better than real. Superior imitations. And it’s the film’s undoing. Well, and the music. The eschewing of cartoon for caricature and the Angelo Badalamenti score. It is not the music to tell read more
If only snobbery rhymed with quality
The Stop Button Posted by on Jun 7, 2019
I can’t take Apple seriously with movie sales or rentals. I’m having a hard time imagining I’ll take Apple TV+ seriously either. All of Apple’s web material for movies stinks. You’re supposed to go into iTunes to rent it, not look at it on the website. But iTunes is absolutely terrible for read more
Crystal Lake (2016, Jennifer Reeder)
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Jun 6, 2019
Crystal Lake opens with lead Marcela Okeke packing a suitcase; based on some of what she packs–Aliens and Purple Rain on VHS, the LPs to Tea for the Tillerman and the Muppet Movie soundtrack—the short immediately establishes Okeke as one of the cooler people to ever exist. And then comes the read more
Crystal Lake (2016, Jennifer Reeder)
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Jun 6, 2019
Crystal Lake opens with lead Marcela Okeke packing a suitcase; based on some of what she packs–Aliens and Purple Rain on VHS, the LPs to Tea for the Tillerman and the Muppet Movie soundtrack—the short immediately establishes Okeke as one of the cooler people to ever exist. And then comes the read more
Crystal Lake (2016, Jennifer Reeder)
The Stop Button Posted by on Jun 6, 2019
Crystal Lake opens with lead Marcela Okeke packing a suitcase; based on some of what she packs–Aliens and Purple Rain on VHS, the LPs to Tea for the Tillerman and the Muppet Movie soundtrack—the short immediately establishes Okeke as one of the cooler people to ever exist. And then comes the read more
Crystal Lake (2016, Jennifer Reeder)
The Stop Button Posted by on Jun 6, 2019
Crystal Lake opens with lead Marcela Okeke packing a suitcase; based on some of what she packs–Aliens and Purple Rain on VHS, the LPs to Tea for the Tillerman and the Muppet Movie soundtrack—the short immediately establishes Okeke as one of the cooler people to ever exist. And then comes the read more
Picnic (1956, Joshua Logan)
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Jun 4, 2019
Picnic is all about sex. It can never talk about being all about sex because it’s from 1956 and it’s set in small-town Kansas anyway and no one in small-town Kansas was going to be talking about sex. Not when schoolteachers like Rosalind Russell are trying to ban books for even hinting at sex. But read more
Picnic (1956, Joshua Logan)
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Jun 4, 2019
Picnic is all about sex. It can never talk about being all about sex because it’s from 1956 and it’s set in small-town Kansas anyway and no one in small-town Kansas was going to be talking about sex. Not when schoolteachers like Rosalind Russell are trying to ban books for even hinting at sex. But read more
Picnic (1956, Joshua Logan)
The Stop Button Posted by on Jun 4, 2019
Picnic is all about sex. It can never talk about being all about sex because it’s from 1956 and it’s set in small-town Kansas anyway and no one in small-town Kansas was going to be talking about sex. Not when schoolteachers like Rosalind Russell are trying to ban books for even hinting at sex. But read more
Picnic (1956, Joshua Logan)
The Stop Button Posted by on Jun 4, 2019
Picnic is all about sex. It can never talk about being all about sex because it’s from 1956 and it’s set in small-town Kansas anyway and no one in small-town Kansas was going to be talking about sex. Not when schoolteachers like Rosalind Russell are trying to ban books for even hinting at sex. But read more
Functional Exhaustion
The Stop Button Posted by on Jun 4, 2019
I posted a bunch yesterday—and wrote a bunch of capsules—so I felt rather well-blogged by the end of the day. Better blogged than I’ve felt in a while, at least as far as Visual Reflux’s more relaxed style goes. The capsules are written—or meant to be written—in that relaxed style. But it read more
Apple Wish Lists
The Stop Button Posted by on Jun 3, 2019
When I was a kid I made wish lists when the Sears catalog came. I grew up in the Star Wars Kenner action figure era (the first one) and my wish lists were basically just lists of Star Wars toys. Not the ones I wanted, all of them. Because you wanted all of them. For the first time in a few years, I read more
To Die For (1995, Gus Van Sant)
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Jun 2, 2019
To Die For’s got one of those effortlessly smooth but obviously intricate narrative structures. Screenwriter Buck Henry is adapting a novel, which author Joyce Maynard structured with many different first person accounts. Van Sant and Henry and editor Curtiss Clayton keep the sense of different per read more
To Die For (1995, Gus Van Sant)
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Jun 2, 2019
To Die For’s got one of those effortlessly smooth but obviously intricate narrative structures. Screenwriter Buck Henry is adapting a novel, which author Joyce Maynard structured with many different first person accounts. Van Sant and Henry and editor Curtiss Clayton keep the sense of different per read more
To Die For (1995, Gus Van Sant)
The Stop Button Posted by on Jun 2, 2019
To Die For’s got one of those effortlessly smooth but obviously intricate narrative structures. Screenwriter Buck Henry is adapting a novel, which author Joyce Maynard structured with many different first person accounts. Van Sant and Henry and editor Curtiss Clayton keep the sense of different per read more
To Die For (1995, Gus Van Sant)
The Stop Button Posted by on Jun 2, 2019
To Die For’s got one of those effortlessly smooth but obviously intricate narrative structures. Screenwriter Buck Henry is adapting a novel, which author Joyce Maynard structured with many different first person accounts. Van Sant and Henry and editor Curtiss Clayton keep the sense of different per read more
Nowak’s Girl Town
The Stop Button Posted by on Jun 2, 2019
Girl Town is haunted. Far more than it is haunting. Creator Carolyn Nowak often cuts right before it gets haunting, instead its cast is haunted. Town collects five different stories. At least two of them deal with heartache. Two of them deal with nonspecific ache. One of them is potential literatur read more
The Hot Zone (2019)
The Stop Button Posted by on Jun 1, 2019
I don’t get to make this statement very often anymore and even less about bestsellers and TV miniseries but I’ve read the book. The Hot Zone. I’ve read the book by Richard Preston (who is sadly not this guy, Robert Preston). Well, okay, I haven’t read the book. I listened to the book. It’s read more