That's exactly why I found the coincidence niffty.

Here, here. It is such an effective and true evocation of growing up in certain parts of the south that it deserves tons of respect. I genuinely hope that it becomes a big movie for kids because the entire time I was watching I thought to myself that this is The Sandlot if Sam Shepard was asked to write it.

I think it is fair to say that can be a literally. The shit truly indie film makers go through to even get to the nomination process makes it impossible by design.

Yeah, even within the film long shots aren't really a thing so when he uses one for that scene everything gains an out of body touch like if Enter the Void was good. It's just so god damned unnerving to pass through the house like that the horror of the situation increasing with each pass.

It stole my chips and just gave them to others to appear cool.

The funny thing about that is Carruth didn't choose Walden for its thematic relevance, but just because he remembered never being able to read it without falling asleep which is kind of awesome.

I LIKE PILOT JUST BECAUSE SHE HAS A NAME I CAN NOT BELIEVE IS REAL.

I feel comfortable saying that it is,if nothing else, the most politically aware super film yet focusing in on a lot of things relevant to the modern culture in a way that is simultaneously thought provoking and entertaining. The stuff with his PTSD for instance isn't necessary to the plot, but adds so much to the…

I think it would be wrong to consider the Coens' influence as anything more than a starting point. The film is concerned with very different questions of country and pursuit that wouldn't really be present in a Coen film (The closest I can think of is Fargo which still makes this a question of greed rather than a self…

You can't judge the previous lists now that we have the great exodus to consider.

It really is beautiful. It's not as immediately self evident in its greatness as Primer which I think only goes to show Carruth's tremendous growth even just across a film. It's haunting and beautiful in the way all American art films should be. I don't need slow-mo shots of wheat and hammy narration when films this…

It's probably telling that I've seen only three of these. That said I'm still confident that Pain and Gain stands tall amongst these giants.

Probably me too though it took forever for me to warm up to it. Also Rusty, I find the ending as we have it now to actually be far darker as it shows Dunne forever locked i the mundane word of civilization dying inside due to knowing that there is a world outside his cubicle which is far greater.

John Tutorro was enjoyable at least.

Yes, so what if he hasn't made anything above average in a while? There are far more productive things to talk/ snark on.

He was on All That?

How could I have forgotten?

Don't tell Akermann that.

Pilot is still the most made up sounding.

I used to feel the same way. It's definitely a 'and then' plot rather than a therefore plot. Thinking of it as a Dostoyevsky comedy though with the long lost locals and the weird undercurrent of christian guilt in trying to live as a free man. The plot then becomes just an excuse to explore Dunne's psyche, not to tell…