I was at a cider mill, with a small mix of mostly family, some friends, and my partner, when a friend texted me the news of Terence Davies passing. Tried to keep it together, but was letting on a bit that I was genuinely upset by this news. Celebrity passing's don’t usually phase me, but this definitely feels different; entirely too close to home, basically feeling like family (as ludicrous as it can ever sound). And then, I shit you…
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Poison 2023
If I grade the whole Dahl Collection (Dahl House is my fave proposed title) as one film, it'd get a 4/5. All it needs is a finer end note from Ralph as Dahl at the end of Poison and it would just be a vignette feature film. I mean, he's done it with French Dispatch, so... it just feels like it's apart of his work, pretty organically and therefore am including it as a feature in my Wes ranking and…
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Buffalo '66 1998
This shouldn't work. It should be deplorable, convoluted, annoying, and pretentious. It should make me feel sick, I should hate this, I should never want to look at Vincent Gallo, and I should wash this away from my life. But I just can't. It just works. It's magical really. Brilliant performances all around, wild stylistic choices, and a moving tale of a horrible protagonist (that you somehow feel bad for (sometimes)) slowly learning to accept, take responsibility, and love. What…
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