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Watched on Saturday June 7, 2025.

Unbelievably innovative and always obsessed with singular cross breeding of video art and narrative structures. Probably the worst chemistry of a couple I’ve ever seen on screen. Poor Beth. So many great one liners. That WOW/MOM sequence is one I can never forget, really blown away by that segment. 

So happy Bleak Week has returned me back into the direction of Jon Jost!

Us PEE-WEE die hards can finally take a deep breathe knowing this was finally put out. So heartbreaking to watch Paul still skeptical and untrustworthy of someone up until the end when they are clearly giving him a platform for truth. I haven’t balled that hard during those final 20 minutes watching something in a long time while ing how healing his work is for me. What an incredible force, so clearly and abundantly for love

Pretty outstanding, with real edge of your seat suspense. Every single moment the great Glen Meore is on screen will be seeped into my sub consciousness forever, and was genuinely frightening, such a star. Really gotta check my back on my walk home. Bravo Ken 👏

Watched on Monday May 19, 2025.

Incredibly beautiful film about trying to hold on to the things dear to us no matter what, even after they are long gone. Its brilliance zero ins on  the more quiet extensions of this theme even when much more grandiose devastations are happening on the side lines.

I’ve got so much respect for FARMER but something feels quite missing with DEMON QUEEN that’s hard for me to get completely behind. Not even close to an SOV great contrary to popular belief, hopefully I can come around to this one someday and understand why it’s so beloved.

Watched on Monday May 12, 2025.

Salem really elevates every single sound in the south that was made out of desperation and pain and blew it up into the cosmos to a level we haven’t really caught up to yet. Yes, even GOD finds comfort in his crack pipe

It makes so much sense David Yow was in this because the whole thing really does feel like a cold and nihilistic noise rock album. Definitely will leave you feeling pretty broken and empty especially in the finale. Loved how campy some moments felt. Erkman is wearing much of his influences on his sleeve but I can say with great confidence he succeeded in making a film light years better then Twentynine Palms. Which is an abysmal film. I encourage any fan of tasteless horror and noise rock to go see this one. Can’t wait to see what Erkman does next!

Hell ya to Kai Lennox! 🎉 Amazing performance, thanks for taking me to this and creating my best friend.

How can Baker direct a baby this well? While hustling the art of cinema verte disguised as fake designer, Baker really was out there proving he was the chosen one while implanting his signature hope in all the obvious but non discreet places. 

Thanks for the blu ray trade Sean, been waiting forever to finally see this film 🖤⚔️

Still stands the test of time. My vhs copy still torn to shreds. Flannery where you been the world misses you. 🖤

One of the most cathartic and poetic deconstructions of cinema I think I’ve ever seen and quite honestly I think goes beyond Tsukamoto, Fukui, or even Mekas. An outsider opus, made by a screaming elegant soul. 

Terry you are absolutely insane, and you need to continue making films as long as you are around. It’s people like you that constantly remind me how much more possible we can take cinema to this day and it’s why I love this medium more than anything in this world. It was a honor to give you a hug tonight 🖤

Truly the greatest films to me are the ones where we can actually see and feel a filmmaker working through thought patterns that reflect deeper understandings of oneself and the world around us. Rare to see an artist on the scope of Cronenberg pull off that balancing act with such interesting procession this late into life and still leave you ruminating long after you left theater. 

Appreciate so much how I can’t name another one of his films that feel THIS uncomfortably personal, and although perhaps a little to plot driven for my taste, the poetry of the pains of saying goodbye are inevitably as dense and deep as the black void of your soul knowing you can never see someone again

There are only two people in this world, the ones who accept our bodies mean nothing and our souls will fly on in a beautiful ballet of the spiritual cycle. Then there are the ones can’t accept this, who are cold and broken inside who need to stare at their loved ones bodies until complete decay because that in itself is sacred. Even then that isn’t enough because you are so cold inside with the fear that none of this meant anything and you’re holding on for as long as you can. I struggle which one I am every day.

Although not as compelling as Agrro Dr1ft to me, Korine is truly setting an awe inspiring blue print for a mid life crisis. Honestly best experienced on a labtop at 3AM, but once youre truly locked in Korines trance like cinema could be argued to be in its fullest gear for this one. A perfect (sister?) film to Trash Humpers. I do however maybe only have one more EDGLRD AI film left in me, and hope he rounds this era up as a trilogy and can find his heart once again. Still staying based of course

You’ll try and express yourself in the only way you know how to, by turning to the language of cinema. You hope you’ll find a certain sense of self, a welcoming home, a path forward within its fearless expression, yet you’re always and forever completely blindsided by the pain that still lingers after you gave it your best, only to do it again and again

This probably would have hit so hard if I was a 15 year old girl punk living in my bedroom in this oppressed world with dreams of being a filmmaker, but ultimately this lands pretty shallow for me as a 29 year old UNC punk male filmmaker living in his tiny apartment. Ultimately I’m not the audience, but as a snap shot of San Francisco punk youth its still one of a kind, and hell ya to young DIY filmmakers forever, and of course RIP to Sarah Jacobson who I wish had the chance to go even harder

Truly some of the most innovative and unhinged camera work I’ve ever seen. Every single moment I was gasping at almost every single camera placement decision. It’s a shame Anno didn’t make more live action, but the nerds tell me NGE is some of the finest art ever made so maybe it’s time

Watched on Saturday February 22, 2025.

TO COMPLETELY BELONG TO THAT INVISIBLE PLACE

Nothing like the unwavering of your mother to get you through your on stage bestiality and genital mutilation acts 🖤

Watched on Saturday February 8, 2025.

Feels very much like a quite epitaph of sorts now. Hard not to see Alvin’s trip to the doctor warning him of his Emphysema and not think how the same thing happened to Lynch at the same exact age. Such a beautiful film, hyper focused on not the details of the subconscious this time around, but the literal stories and perseverance we all have that are right on our surfaces

John William De Forest in an 1868 essay coined the term “The Great American Novel” and insisted it had most likely not been written yet. 

I will pretty much die on the hill with the belief that De Forest would agree that in 2017 his premonition of the G.A.N came to life with Lynch’s swan song, TWIN PEAKS: THE RETURN 

Arguably the most important and dense work I’ve ever seen in my lifetime. 

The first time this aired I got the honor of watching the finale on a static bubble TV in an Oregon motel while wildfires raged outside my window in 2017. Pretty much the best way to watch. On second watch of this I’m still astounded. 

THE RETURN: A RETURN TO PERCEPTIONS OF FORM & RELATIONSHIPS 25 YEARS ON. SO ACHINGLY BEAUTIFUL AND COMPLEX. 

AND A COLD FINAL NOTE FROM THE MASTER: A RETURN TO ABUSE THAT CANNOT END, BUT THE BEAUTY IS IN THE TRYING IN THE HEARTS OF MEN WHO ARE STILL GOOD, NO MATTER THE COST.

TO MUCH TO TALK ABOUT ON LETTERBOX OF COURSE BUT MY 3 FAVORITE MOMENTS ARE 

1.) FOREVER LAUGHING AT THE FACT LYNCH BOILS HIS CARRER DOWN TO BEING A MUTE BUMBLING BUFFON WHO LOVES COFFEE AND IS CONSTANTLY WINNING THE JACK POT

2.) MATTHEW LILLARDS MONOLOGUE OF HIS MEETING WITH MAJOR BRIGGS STILL MAKES ME FEEL SO SCHIZOPHRENIC AND SICK 

3.) STILL FEELING GOOSEBUMPS WHEN COOPER SEE’S “THE ARM” ONE FINAL TIME WHEN IT ASKS “IS THIS THE STORY OF THE LITTLE GIRL WHO LIVED DOWN THE LANE”

Still watching extremely cracked out LOFI rips of this on YouTube as child circa 07 with the family shared labtop and having the deep understanding I had finally met GOD. 

Found a copy of the “The Short Films of David Lynch” DVD at a record store my babysitter took me to. shortly after I mailed the slipcover as well as a sloppy fan letter to the PO Box of the David Lynch foundation on the back of the DVD in hopes of getting the slipcover signed. Still checking my mail box daily to see if it has arrived

Always thinking about how unbelievably reverent Lynch was when dealing with death for his beloved characters. All having a major guardian Angel making sure they are finally ok wether or not it was Palmers Angel, Spencer being told "In Heaven Everything is fine" by his radiator and Merrick being lulled to sleep by his mother etc...
All these moments were unbelievably healing to me, and to this day at any given moment I feel the realization for peace within the hurt, that nothing can stay bad forever.
What a gift. 💙

STILL THE GREATEST AND MOST IMPORTANT FILM EVER MADE. 

To the world, Lynch is many things: Palme d'Or winner, television auteur, painter, craftsman, father, transcendental meditation spokesman, possibly the greatest American artist who ever lived. To me, Lynch remains forever the strange outsider living in horse stables with his friends, far from other filmmakers, beating his own drum and crafting a world so vibrantly imaginative it shows young artists, now and forever, how to do the same.

Watched on Monday January 20, 2025.

Possibly Lynchs most disturbed and cursed work, and it makes me laugh endlessly even thinking why this film was so important for him to make. Lynch’s mind imploded on himself for this one. It’s big, expansive, and probably only to be seen by the hardcore fans. Finally got around to seeing the remaster of this, which to be honest, looked exactly the same to me? Which is absolutely fine, because watching the grain of SONY PD 150 blown up on a theater screen is magnificent. If you’re lucky enough to see this at the Egyptian in Hollywood, you can keep baring left when you walk out and you’re all of a sudden at the location Dern bleeds out on the BLVD. Intentional or not, I haven’t felt a moment that powerful leaving the cinema in a long time.

Holding space for the tragic downfall of Gregory Maguire’s ostracized intersex outsider Elphaba, which would have made a far more compelling piece of cinema but has been silenced once again to minorly shine through against an ugly looking cash grab of the massively successful broadway musical that truly only works on the stage. 

*My mom had a nice time though, and defying gravity can still make me semi hyperventilate in awe

Watched on Friday January 3, 2025.

Watched on Thursday January 2, 2025.

Robert Eggers Nosferatu sounded like such a match made in heaven I never could have dreamed it would have actually lived up to the hype. To remake a masterpiece could only be the move of a loon, yet here it finally is and Eggers is in full force and the top of his game, immaculate direction. Perhaps his greatest directing to date. Eggers name will certainly stand just as tall as Murnau‘s and Herzogs. Yet when it was all said and done I still prefer the hypnotic pity, loneliness and sorrow I have felt for Orlok’s of past, rather then Eggers high octane rather cartoonishly approach to Orlok’s evil doings.

Never thought my favorite film of the year would be an animated film, but the tales of Adam Elliot’s melancholiac characters are more achingly human and gut wrenching, that anything ive watched this year pales in comparison. 15 years in the making and it shines through in every way. let’s just hope we don’t have to wait this long for Elliot’s next masterpiece. Fighting off life’s demons feels like it can be at a snails pace, but with that time we eventually find a shell, no matter how odd it looks, that we can call home.

Watched on Friday December 13, 2024.

Watched on Saturday December 7, 2024.

Watched on Friday December 6, 2024.

Watched on Thursday December 5, 2024.

Eccentric world building, and at times dauntingly ambitious, I was in awe at the massive scope of the last 20 minutes. A true symbiotic twin to the Ryan Trecartin universe I fell in love with when I started making shorts. I couldn’t be more proud to be a label mate with the legend Dylan Greenberg whom I’ve ired for years from afar. What a beautiful world to bring us together in that way. Love you Dylan, and thank you for always dreaming, you make me feel less alone. 🤘🖤

Watched on Friday November 15, 2024.

I play MILKSHAKE in this film, and broke my neck durning the shooting after 10 takes of getting thrown into a trashcan. It was then I really got to see Jeffrey Garcia and his process firsthand. Behind all the diarrhea, grotesque language, gore, and incest is a filmmaker who actively spends every second of his life-when he’s not dishwashing- to bring everyone together in the town of San Marcos, Texas to laugh, have a space to expel their strange talents, and make cinema together. Love or hate the content I can confidently say there will never be another Jeffrey Garcia, an anarchic juvenile, who also doubles as a true warrior for the underground, a real auteur. I would gladly break my neck 10 more times if it meant filmmakers like this can continue bringing their community and visions together. 

Have no idea how this film will land with people when it gets released, but I’ll be laughing either way and that’s really what’s important.

Watched on Saturday November 2, 2024.

Crying with my brothers on the airplane

Watched on Tuesday October 8, 2024.

They can’t make me hate you. In between the shockingly terrible song choices there is still a pretty compelling and believable look at mental illness and “love” played extremely well from Phoenix and Gaga. I was moved plenty of times. But truly, what did people really expect here? Still present is the tasteless tragic slop that made the first one so engaging, but come on it’s still helmed by frat bro Todd Philips trying to earn his art house stripes using DC comics as a jumping off point. For what he’s worth he made a gutsy anti prison, compelling look at grotesque fame, pro singing your pain away spectacle that was totally his own thing this time and not a copy and paste of the Scorsese greats. Still the only interesting comic book adaptations in my opinion, but that’s not saying a lot. Really believe when the smoke clears this won’t be ed as poorly.

HELLO AGAIN! 

LOS ANGELES! 

OCTOBER 27 

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This is the only film I’ve ever seen that shouts out my hometown of Mandeville, Louisiana. A city so haunted as soon as it’s mentioned the man who speaks of it immediately falls off a ladder to his death while his face is eaten by dozens of Tarantula’s, subsequently opening a portal to hell.  So yeah, that’s just a little about me.

Pretty blown away by this anomaly. Great psychedelia throughout for no budget. Plus those last 15 minutes was jaw dropping mesmerizingly brutal. I would have KILLED to be at this premiere party. Posted in the back with a caprisun in some auditorium watching the faces of the stunned parents and family who probably had no idea what kind of film their kids had been making. Very happy this exists.

The final Cassavetes film I never got around to seeing, (probably because it’s strangely itted from his boxset) and what a sweet final note. Probably one of his most digestible and funny films that sums up everything his filmography stood for magnificently. There are no silver screen lovers in this world. There is no Humphrey Bogarts or Claude Rains in this world. Hell, even Bogarts and Rains couldnt keep up when the camera wasn’t on them. What you really need is someone to simply dance with in a parking lot and to be told you are loved, THAT is what is cause for a celebration 🎈🖤

Drunk off my ass on Hollywood Blvd. stumbling into this one, fighting the grief, the heartbreak, and the ghosts of those who died far too soon who I couldn’t save. Not knowing where the show and my real life ends, but I know I have to have the strength to eventually get out of this seat if it means one day I’ll get thunderous applause and a bouquet of roses.

Just like Gena 💐