This is a very strange love affair
Duplicitousness, secrets and backstabbing all wrapped up in a strange thing known as love. The B&W cinematography by Tetzlaff just elevates this movie to high art. Hitchcock was a bloody genius.
I can’t recall a previous time where a movie made me feel homesick before, specifically for a place I’ve never even been to. Paris, Texas is a movie meant to exist stuck in a dream-time amber, where the only thing left untrapped are the connections we ourselves have made.
List of highlights from REAGAN
- Robert Davi as Leonid Brezhnev, C. Thomas Howell as Caspar Weinberger, Mena Suvari as Jane Wyman, Scott Stapp as Frank Sinatra, Elya Baskin as a Soviet defector, Kevin Sorbo as Reverend Cleaver, and Kevin Dillon as Jack Warner
- Heavily implies that J. Robert Oppenheimer was a Communist spy and Jimmy Carter as a Soviet dupe
- Mentions Reagan’s disinterest in resolving the AIDS epidemic as a good thing (?)
- Jon Voight does…
Ayn Rand meets Richard Wagner, with a varnish manufactured by Caravaggio.
A movie that transcends any categorization of “good” or “bad”, which almost seem like words too puny to describe such a Gesamtkuntswerk. Tonight I witnessed in IMAX the last few firing synapses of a genius rattled by dementia, thoughts and words and precepts barely elucidated by the medium of the moving picture. Performances ranging from baffling to laughingly austere. Cinematography ranging from neo-Baroque to amateurish. Editing both coherent and…