Alejandro Adams

[Alejandro Adams @richesofchaos]

Sorry but leaving COLOR OF MONEY out of this grid is not okay.

[Tobias Tißen @MrNiceGuybrush]

Why the 80s were the best decade for movies, reason 457: freeze frame endings

[Alejandro Adams @richesofchaos]

@sallitt Thanks, Dan.

[Alejandro Adams @richesofchaos]

@swen_ryan Thank you, Ryan.

[Alejandro Adams @richesofchaos]

@TheG0opster Hm. Many consider the opening scene "big" due to its intricate/indelible characterization (lived-in mannerisms, sartorial flourishes, mumbled lovers' talk) and intimate visuals. The world is rendered with a scalpel instead of a—well—sledgehammer. It expends great effort to seduce

[Alejandro Adams @richesofchaos]

@BigPimpinGuvie @BeeBalthazar TOGETHER.

[Alejandro Adams @richesofchaos]

Boots Riley shamed an interviewer for jargony inside-baseball questions. Why is I'M A VIRGO 7 eps? "I love the number 7. I like it upside down and I like the way it looks, I like the angle that it makes, so I was like 'Whatever I do, it's going to be 7'."
https://t.co/dG5BuXKevB

[Alejandro Adams @richesofchaos]

The scuffle was about SECRETARIAT. Ebert gave O’Hehir’s review a pubic thrashing. O’Hehir replied that he’d been mostly kidding (“hyperbole,” “satire”). The comments on the Ebert post take up most of the room on the internet to this day. It’s…a disquieting time capsule.

[dustin_philipson on instagram @DustyDontshoot]

@flmfrkcentral @mangiotto 1.) I recall a time, years past, when Roger Ebert publicly chastised fellow film critic Andrew O’Hehir. As I recall it was in regards to O’Hehir’s somewhat unhinged review of the film ‘Seabiscuit’.

[Alejandro Adams @richesofchaos]

@HellOnFriscoBay @NilesFilmMuseum So glad they’re back in action.

[Alejandro Adams @richesofchaos]

This bit in I KNOW THIS MUCH IS TRUE where Ruffalo is driving away from Poots and stalls for a beat to run his wipers and smear her image before backing out is obvious but it’s also one of the best things I’ve seen in any series in the prestige era. Jody Lee Lipes just hotdogging

[praetorian JAC @jamadacaj]

still not over kevin costner throwing the shoe and nuking the biggest show on television at the height of its power because he'd rather direct his cowboy movie. isn't that what we all work towards and strive for? isn't that the fucking dream?

[Alejandro Adams @richesofchaos]

@bybowes It really is.

[Alejandro Adams @richesofchaos]

@JohnMagary I would watch ARKADIN a half-dozen times before revisiting AMBERSONS. Hard-scrabble Welles or bust. (Putting FAKE so low is a major problem for me.)

[Alejandro Adams @richesofchaos]

Imagine being so 2006-pilled that CHIMES makes it into your top 5 Welles but not 2023-pilled enough to have TRIAL over KANE. (ARKADIN is summier than the parts of its whole and deserves its own special category.)

[Alejandro Adams @richesofchaos]

@Regular_AssDude I feel like that’s a solid 1997 pill.

[Alejandro Adams @richesofchaos]

@crbrinkmann Mumble mumble rhizomatic, something something secondary orality.

[Alejandro Adams @richesofchaos]

@bybowes He’s an absolute POS coward.

[Alejandro Adams @richesofchaos]

David Carradine wrote and performed the song "Man" for CLOUD DANCER (80). The film's aerial stunts are still whispered about in aviation circles to this day.

[Alejandro Adams @richesofchaos]

@Pergamond Ah, formalist needling. I love the concept.

[Alejandro Adams @richesofchaos]

If the two sides in this reductive binary are “she’s tyler durden” and “it’s just a nitwit’s sound and fury about cancel culture,” I will gladly align myself with the former camp.