Everybody has said so much about Stop Making Sense at this point that I don't how much I can add. The filmmaking, the music is obviously incredible. Instead, I'll use this an excuse to talk about David Byrne. Specifically, as someone who, like Byrne, is on the spectrum.
I've liked the music of Talking Heads for a long time, but when I found out that Byrne had come out in 2012 as having high-functioning autism (originally labeled "Aspergers" but not…
Smooth jazz + fast cars + a badass girl boss villain + jumbled up psuedo-New Hollywood editing = 80 breezy minutes of some of the coolest, sickest shit you've ever seen in a movie. I feel like I'm underrating this movie now, but it will definitely move up to a five if I ever get a chance to see a higher definition, restored version with a huge crowd of people in a theater.
Thanks Sakana for putting this on my radar!
“I would be a better emissary than Kissinger.”
- Dizzy Gillespie
I'm only streaming one film from Sundance online this year because every ticket is absurdly expensive. I went with the one that seemed the most up my alley, and luckily I chose right because this really blew me away.
The experience of watching Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat helped me realize the extent of the problems I had with another recent historical epic: Ava DuVernay's Origin. Both films involve…
It’s so clever in retrospect to create a story about a priest lost in a world that is both archaic and on the cusp of being modernized, and have him obsessed with photography; a (at the time new) process in its own way capable of granting its recipients eternal life.
Godland is cold and unsettling in a way I found totally enamoring. The cinematography presents these huge natural settings and spaces with this distance and precision that mimics the feeling…
