I hate hate hate hate hate hate hate HAAAAAAAAAAAATE the narrative that Stephen King constructed that Shelley Duvall was somehow too “passive and meek” to make a great Wendy Torrence. Duvall gave perhaps the all-time greatest, most lived-in portrayal of an abuse victim I’ve ever seen. She seen where she nervously but…

Praise Ms. Shelley.

I worked with Shelley Duvall in the 90s. She was a true delight: eccentric, sure, but really sweetly so, and definitely intelligent and compos mentis. She was a lot like her character in 3 Women, but smarter and not self-centered or deluded. And she talked a lot about The Shining, and wasn’t as kind about Kubrick as…

Shelly Duvall gave us Faerie Tale Theatre.

He’s a exploitative piece of shit.

Fuck Dr. Phil

im glad that you said this. far too often people online tend to bend over backwards, often taking reality with them, coming up with complicated reasons for things because “humans do shit that doesnt always make sense to you or I” has stopped being a good reason. it takes away from our understand to always say, no way…

The thing that frustrates me about these types of docs, is they try to find answers while not allowing for the reality that human beings are complicated an inexplicable. The circumstances of the Lam case are odd, but the rush to find all kinds of answers rooted in bizarre yet external and therefore explicable forces…

Hide the keys is old school dealership bullshit.

They were paid peanuts by a slightly crazed guy to do some crazy stuff.  OK buddy?

Have you ever been in a situation where someone was desperately, wildly, frantically trying to explain something to you that they believed was critically important, and you could tell how feverishly they felt they needed you to understand, and how important they believed the information was, but you just couldn’t make…

Yeah this article is a good model of the experience of watching it. Of course I feel like being completely perplexed and overwhelmed was a common emotion in the 00s. I find it’s one of the best example of how you weirdly had all these different jingoistic, capitalistic, hypersexualized, increasingly evangelical and…

It’s impressive how game all the actors were.  

It’s so so so long and slightly crazed, and then you get to the end and find out it was “edited for length and clarity,” which is really the coup de grace of the entire thing.

Zardoz is amazing

Southland Tales has a spot of honor in my DVD collection, next to The Apple and other such... er... fine cinema.

From this article, Netflix could hire him but he would demand to make Southland Tales again. 

I agree - I found myself really enjoying the sheer spectacle of this. Plus Wallace Shawn!

Now that I’ve fully read this piece, it’s actually really depressing to read, because Kelly doesn’t speak like someone who is affectionately looking back at a crazy experience, he speaks like someone who is still obsessed with this borderline nonsensical film from 15 years ago. It’s remarkable in a slightly sad way…

A few years ago, Mike D’Angelo’s review of Antichrist at the Cannes Film Festival basically said the truly bad movies are the ones made with passion and soul that just whiffed. Hugely personal, ambitious projects that were made as labours of love and happened to not really work at all.