The shrill tone of a dialup modem announces our passage into a new world where the living and the dead mingle in endless liminal space. We invented the backrooms of reality to make sense of the real. Nothing ever truly dies anymore. The accumulated loss of all human history has been piling up on the other side of a membrane and now we're blindly tearing through. We're subsumed in everything dark we've ever conjured. The primitive lens of early internet…
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Sorcerer 1977
God, is this the sweatiest thriller ever made? The apex of gritty guys gone gonzo in the jungle? The most unabashed deep dive into dude drama on a long dangerous drive?
I'm being an idiot, but it's true. Sorcerer rocks so hard it breaks my critical faculties. I just sat there clutching the box of my new bluray copy of the film, limbs drawn up into myself, perched on the edge of the sofa, practically willing that dynamite to chill…
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The Fisher King 1991
"There's three things in this world that you need: Respect for all kinds of life, a nice bowel movement on a regular basis, and a navy blazer."
"You ever read any Nietzsche? Nietzsche says there's two kinds of people in the world: people who are destined for greatness like Walt Disney... and Hitler. Then there's the rest of us, he called us "the bungled and the botched." We get teased. We sometimes get close to greatness, but we never get…
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Midsommar 2019
Midsommar portrays the subtleties of tripping balls better than any overt drug-centric movie I've ever seen. The way the natural world appears to breathe in every direction you look. The way you can't imagine speaking with someone outside the wavelength you and your friends are riding. The way profound emotional truths can emerge, colored by the form of your trip itself - terrifying, cathartic, painful, ecstatic, you can cycle through all these colors and come out the other side changed.…
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Drive My Car 2021
"The day Oto died... She asked before I left if we could talk when I got home. Her tone was gentle but determined. I had no plans that day, but kept on driving. I couldn't go home. I thought that once I went home, we would never be the same again. I found her collapsed when I returned late at night. I called an ambulance, but she never regained consciousness. What if I'd gone home a bit earlier? I think…
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Eyes Wide Shut 1999
Fuck.
Weirdly appropriate to log this movie today. A movie about sex and money and class and culture, yes, but also a narrative about a regular guy - more wealthy than average but regular nonetheless - brushing up against the membrane separating us from actual power and getting the biggest thump of his life on the way back down. Right at the final crest of his storied career, Kubrick nakedly portrays the dynamics of capital, that omnipotent gravity pulling our…
