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Twin Peaks: The Missing Pieces 2014

★★★½ Watched 18 Dec 2017 1

I sort of railroaded my way through the first two seasons and the movie to get started on The Return so much I kind of regret not giving Fire Walk With Me more a chance but it made an impact for sure. It’s the most uncomfortable of David Lynch’s oeuvre, and worthy of all the revision from the terrible reviews it received 30 years ago. So it was by the time I saw this, I was better able to appreciate what…
Lost Highway 1997

★★★★★ Rewatched 13 Oct 2022

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This stands at a wide berth as the film of David Lynch’s I am most entranced by. I love Mulholland Dr., open to revisiting INLAND EMPIRE when that new restoration is made available and sat stunned with everyone else at his revisiting of Twin Peaks. Where this sits differently and more pleasing to my eyes is the wider frame composed for this. He went literally day for night when it came to The Straight Story, applying his talent…

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Heat 1995

★★★★★ Added

Canon Chronicle #12: “Voodoo Chile (Slight Return)” Previous reviews

A volatile inevitability. I refuse to believe this glorifies anything, it is a tragedy of lost potential. Asimov said that violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. Yeah they look cool doing it but it doesn’t flinch from the real damage created by a fools errand. One for pressing on, the other for not taking them in nearly red-handed. What gold to be gotten from catching them before the next evening’s news.…
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid 1973

★★★★ Rewatched 11 Jan 2025

Sam Peckinpah's family migrated to California from their Indiana homestead in the 1850's. Garrett is the name of my hometown. This movie has always had some distant significance, finally catching up to it in my 20’s and with various rewatches since am never lost for words it seems about what in it I see in us today. The ideal of what we strive to achieve as Americans, mangled into business as usual.
What it says of us ending up cheering…

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Die Hard 1988

★★★★★ Added 3

More gratuitous than the violence are the constant reminders of how much this was a movie of it's time. When "breaking news" wasn't just a buzzword and used only for something as serious as a terrorist take-over, limousines had tape decks, and the price of gas was less then a dollar. This extends to some of the production details too, namely using real locations in Los Angeles, painted backings and relying almost entirely on practical physical effects.
These things conversely…
The Color of Money 1986

★★★★★ Added 4

This is my favorite Martin Scorsese film. A big reason why is nostalgia. My father played pool and himself was a fan of this, and we had a VHS rip of it in my house for years. I'm not a big sports fan, let alone pool, but the cinematic poetry applied here is never boring to watch. Defining performances from Paul Newman and Tom Cruise feel like the cherry on top. I still get goosebumps whenever I see the montage of Felson getting his act together before arriving in Atlantic City.

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