I recently watched three different Westerns, and I have to say, I, like, get it now. Westerns are all about a man trying to escape the passage of time. He holds on to what really makes him a man–his guns, his woman, his horse, and his power. But all these? These are things of the
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Honestly, this review has taken me so long to write because I have no clue what to make of this movie. I’m not sure this will be much of a review, inasmuch as a scramble to try to figure out what meaning I can garner from the movie after so much time has passed. In
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This week, Movie Monday found me watching Midnight Cowboy, the 1969 film-that-couldn’t, pulled off miraculously by director John Schlesinger. Midnight Cowboy is a spectacular blip in the vast expanse of film history, ignored by some, cult classic for others, with one legendary line–“I’m walking here!”–that retains it’s cultural capital decades after it was improvised. (Warning: This post contains the
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This week for Movie Monday, I’m ranting and raving about one of my favorite topics ever–masculinity and war–with two movies that couldn’t be more different from one another: Lawrence of Arabia and Dr. Strangelove, or: How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the Bomb. Lawrence of Arabia is David Lean’s epic four-hour take on the real
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This is not a happy post. I don’t come to you a happy blogger. Well, to be more accurate, I come to you a bemused, unsettled blogger. I’m not exactly sad, not exactly not-happy, just… dazed. Over the last three months I’ve been burning through FX’s You’re the Worst, a 30-minute comedy about two people who
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