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OCFF 2025- 12 solid hours in the main theater
I wouldn’t get up early yesterday for morning yoga – the correct choice, I only got halfway through the session I attended – but I delayed publishing, which is dangerous, so I could make the 11:45 curtain of Videoheaven. This … Continue reading
Posted in Documented entropy
Tagged Alexi Wasser, David Lowery, David Lynch, Gypsy 83, Messy, OCFF 2025, Todd Stephens, Uncut Gems, Videoheaven
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Now complete, ‘Dune’ still disappoints
Dune began its life as a deliberately incomplete project, with writer/director/producer Denis Villeneuve insisting on adapting the famous novel in two parts, but only securing funding for one of those parts, with a follow-up film contingent on its success. There … Continue reading
I just rewatched ‘The Wizard of Oz’ and had a lot of feelings and now you have to read about them
I remember precisely the first image I saw of Star Wars. It’s the shot of Darth Vader, lightsaber ignited, standing in a Death Star hallway waiting for Obi-Wan Kenobi to arrive. This would have been 1995 or ‘96, after the … Continue reading
Posted in White Noise
Tagged David Lynch, Disney Renaissance, Dreamworks, Eraserhead, Star Wars, The Prince of Egypt, The Wizard of Oz, Wild at Heart
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It’s OK if you didn’t get ‘The Green Knight’
9/10 Sir Gawain and the Green Knight completes the evolution of distributor A24 from a distribution conglomerate, which simply bought festival films to pump and flip into theaters, to a production company, to a brand and finally to its own … Continue reading