I keep thinking about Backrooms, that it’s a movie made by someone young now, about people being trapped in and forced to wander and sift through the banal and garish detritus of the late 20th century, warped and monstrous things being built from flimsy memories of that era
Not an urgent hot take, but the scene in Elaine May’s A New Leaf where Walter Matthau spends several minutes on their wedding night trying to help May put on her “Grecian”-style nightgown correctly is a physical comedy masterclass that more people should rave about.
the scorsese thing is annoying but he's basically been doing tech commercials on the side for the last 20 years so im choosing to not sweat it. this leap basically means he will never be an ambassador for cinematic integrity ever again though
Big thanks to @nightlightakron for hosting the second live Unwatchables recording! We had a lively back-and-forth with the audience of a sold-out screening of HOWARD THE DUCK, the notorious 1986 flop that's since gained a cult following.
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youtube being all but dead as a cultural phenomenon makes it really interesting from an anthropological pov. especially as someone who was Not Watching
Hanks in ELVIS is among his greatest performances, far more exciting and daring than anything most of his contemporaries would dare attempt, and it speaks to the poor quality and lack of imagination of modern films that it was treated as such a joke.