I don't write reviews of every movie I see, just ones where I feel like I have something vaguely interesting to say
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Brain Damage 1988
The most inconsistent movie ever made. Brilliant scene - terrible scene - brilliant scene - terrible scene and so on and so on until it's over. Really something, I've never seen anything else quite like it.
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Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me 1992
Lynch's greatest film, a masterpiece, and most certainly the one in which his straightforward and avant-garde sensibilities are most perfectly in sync. The central thrust is exactly the same as that of Blue Velvet--the dark undercurrents of a deceptively "normal" small town--but here the horror is emotional, cathartic, beautiful, and the horrific crime of a father raping and murdering his own daughter is, amazingly, turned by Lynch into a story that is redemptive, and a woman, Laura Palmer, who until…
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High Diving Hare 1949
What amazes me about some of these Warners cartoons is how they seem to have been made on a bet e.g. "How many gags can we get out of this one tiny situation?" The entire Roadrunner / Coyote series was based on this notion, but High Diving Hare could almost be the prototypical version of it, with Freleng getting as many variations as he can on the concept of Yosemite Sam making Bugs jump off a diving board at gunpoint,…
