When your circle small but one of you is the Thing (it’s Childs).
Muahaha welcome to John Carpenter Month, we finally covered this on the pod and it was so fun to ramble about it in a way that doesn’t quite suit a Letterboxd review. A film that I think we hold dearer because it was initially so maligned, sometimes the world isn’t ready for great art but good thing it lives forever! Rob Bottin you will always be famous.
Of all the things to discuss about this jaw droppingly gorgeous, erotic, maximalist gothic opera about sexuality, sin, love, and where it all melts into the modern and the ancient, I can’t believe how frequently people only mention Keanu Reeves’ adorably stupid accent and performance. As if it matters. This shit is bonkers. Gary Oldman!!!
I am so struck by this, easily one of my new favorite endings if not one of my new favorite movies. Giulietta Masina is indescribable. The relentlessness and beauty of life and the persistence of the human spirit. Non mi manca niente!
Oppenheimer’s girl dinner: a metric ton of cigarettes and a total of two clementine slices
Love these little 50s Red Scare time capsules, bonus points for having a kickass theme song
🎶Beware of the blob, it creeps
And leaps and glides and slides
Across the floor🎶
😜
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🎶Right through the door
And all around the wall
A splotch, a blotch
Be careful of the blob 🎶
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Perfect! Serial killers are interesting because they are different from us, but in media it will always be more harrowing to explore the ways in which we are the same. That’s why this movie has inspired so much of today’s serial killer iconography. Clarice and Hannibal’s dynamic is so twisted and delicious, they have a mutual intellectual understanding but Hannibal has the advantage of psychopathy, only finding pleasure in dissecting and making her squirm. Clarice’s role as a woman in…
This is what I thought I looked like hanging out at that big electrical box in my neighborhood cul-de-sac
Maybe the best that an alien invasion or apocalypse movie has captured the mass terror, uncertainty, panic, and claustrophobia that an event like this would bring. One of my favorite directorial efforts from Spielberg if only because he so masterfully elevates material that would be painfully average and even bad in another director’s hands, creating an experience and imagery that has been seared into my brain since I first saw it as a kid - bodies floating down a river, a…