Projections from a Bronze Eye

Is this a better television program than Twin Peaks? Yes. Is it a better film than Mulholland Drive? No. But it is without a doubt one of the most beautiful films I’ve seen in years. 

What do you get when you cross a Raymond Chandler pot-boiler with a 70s sexploitation flic? This. Oh and the double, double-cross in the end? Beautiful.  

Meh. 

Humanite (1999 | dir. Bruno Dumont) Has there ever been a film that captures loss and the off-handed brutality of life in such a realistic way? A woman peels vegetables, a dead body, a deep sense of loss and disconnection. And so it goes. 

My wife, who normally hates any black & white movie, and who detests talkies, loved this story. This story is about youth, but it’s not a happy film. What is youth if not that period before death is allowed to consume our consciousness. There is middle aged fear and impotence and there is everything that came before. That is what it means to be young. And when it’s over there is no going back.  

Those who control the media control the state, at least according to this subversive crime drama from the 00s. 

I want to believe that each of the dual protagonists’ stories was directed by the respective directors. I watched this a few months back. It was worth re watching. 

Amazing title, meh Giallo flic. But there is Edwidge Fenech...

You’ve got ninjas, you’ve got rock bands, you’ve got drug gangs, but what if you had dueling ninja-rock band-drug gangs living in Miami? That would be wicked ass right? Right?

I love Fuller, but I hadn’t even heard of this little gem until a few days ago. It’s not your typical ham fisted social commentary/crime film. In fact it’s more than a little convoluted as to what the crime/intrigue is even about. Perhaps it was the zeitgeist of the period but this film and Fassbinder’s World on a Wire came out in the same year. Fuller almost channels Fassbinder here, as Fassbinder channels Fuller in Ali: Fear Eats the Soul