Watched September 21st
On the Criterion Blu-ray (Spine 119)
Directed by: Bruce Robinson
Written by: Bruce Robinson
TSPDT: 508
107 minutes. A story that almost feels like Don Quixote fan fiction. This version plays like a Whit Stillman comedy of manners as told through the lens of a Hunter S. Thompson level of madman.
Bruce Robinson is an interesting guy even outside of the movies he wrote and directed. He had a role as an actor in Franco Ziffirelli’s Romeo…
Watched September 20th
On the Criterion Channel (Spine 877)
Directed by: Mario Peixoto
Written by: Mario Peixoto
TSPDT: 391
118 minutes. A beautiful piece of experimental filmmaking.
The premise of Limite is that three people are on a boat and the movie uses flashbacks to show their life story and what they were doing before they got on the boat. I know this is not the most riveting premise, and I’m sure some people will be bored by this. But…
Watched September 17th
As part of the Severin boxset The Sensual World of Black Emmanuelle
Directed by: Joe D’Amato
Written by: Maria Pia Fusco, Story by Piero Vivarelli and Ottavio Alessi
TSPDT: Unranked
100 minutes. Whoa, this movie should be called Emanuelle in America: Trigger Warning. D’Amato goes full D’Amato here and delivers an Emanuelle movie made for gorehounds and people seeking out extreme content.
Just to be clear, I mean like people watching a woman jack off a horse…
Watched October 15th
On the Utopia Distribution Blu-ray release (Spine 012)
Directed by: Jane Schoenbrun
Written by: Jane Schoenbrun
TSZDT: Unranked
TSPDT: Unranked
85 minutes. At.mos.phere.
Director and Writer Schoenbrun is either lucky or maybe a genius and someone to watch out for as a powerful future director of horror films. Time will tell, but at least for World’s Fair they were able to reduce the experience of going online as a teen into key personal and intimate moments and…
