3 things about Isobel Sandoval’s LINGUA FRANCA

Posted on September 4, 2024 by robchristopher

Lingua Franca [2019]

1. In the midst of peeling an orange, she gets the feeling she isn’t at home any longer.
2. He stops reading the letter out of embarrassment.
3. The cow carcass falls to the floor.

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3 things about Damien Chazelle’s FIRST MAN

Posted on September 3, 2024 by robchristopher

First Man [2018]

1. “Music Out of the Moon” by Les Baxter
2. Swing-set.
3. A painting of a pastoral scene in his quarantine bedroom.

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3 things about Thomas McGuane’s 92 IN THE SHADE

Posted on September 2, 2024 by robchristopher

92 in the Shade [1975]

1. Possibly the best onscreen assortment of 1970s casual men’s shirts ever assembled.
2. “The French have a word for it: pussy.”
3. She turns down an English muffin but puts a six-pack in her purse.

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3 things about Peter Hyams’ BUSTING

Posted on September 1, 2024 by robchristopher

Busting [1974]

1. Playing Solitaire in a toilet stall.
2. The hostage clutches tightly to her shopping bag as the gunman drags her out of the market.
3. “Dear Mom and Dad. How are you? I am just swell. A fag ate my leg.”

Not uninteresting as a time capsule. (The sequence in the gay bar is homophobic but fascinating.) However it’s nothing you haven’t seen elsewhere, done better. Except for Elliott Gould’s mustache, which is truly magnificent.

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3 things about Delbert Mann’s MARTY

Posted on August 31, 2024 by robchristopher

Marty [1955]

1. Splurging on a taxi home.
2. “I dunno, what do you wanna do?”
3. Two Irish-American ladies having a beer together at the bar.

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3 things about Howard Hawks’ EL DORADO

Posted on August 30, 2024 by robchristopher

El Dorado [1966]

1. “I hit the sign and the sign hit him.”
2. The two men walk down the street side by side, both using crutches.
3. Wrassling in the barn.

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3 things about Paul Schrader’s HARDCORE

Posted on August 29, 2024 by robchristopher

Hardcore [1979]

1. A blue that’s just a little overpowering.
2. Every room in the dungeon is nothing more than painted balsa wood.
3. A big, glowing sign: HYPNO-SEX-ISM.

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3 things about John Ford’s THE MAN WHO SHOT LIBERTY VALANCE

Posted on August 28, 2024 by robchristopher

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance [1962]

1. He grabs the steak from off the floor and mashes it down on the table. Possible influence on Young Frankenstein? (“There, I’ve touched it. Happy now?”)
2. Train timetable blackboard in the “schoolroom.”
3. A patch of blooming cacti at the burned-out house.

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3 things about Orson Welles’ THE LADY FROM SHANGHAI

Posted on August 27, 2024 by robchristopher

The Lady from Shanghai [1947]

1. Take a drink every time Everett Sloan says “lover” and you’ll be on the floor long before Welles escorts you to the Crazy House.
2. “It’s a bright, guilty world.”
3. The juror keeps interrupting.

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3 things about Charlie Kaufman’s SYNECDOCHE, NEW YORK

Posted on August 26, 2024 by robchristopher

Synecdoche, New York [2008]

1. “We have 560 lighting cues. I don’t why I make it so complicated.”
“Because that’s what you do.”
2. Smoke inhalation.
3. “You’re weirdly close to what I visualized for this character.”
Long pause.
“Glad to be weirdly close.”

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