“Overall [Green Room is] not so much about the neo-Nazis per se, though as it is a critique of mainstream America… Foremost, Green Room is about delivering this very intense movie experience for the audience.” – Jeremy Saulnier Nazi punks fuck off Having grabbed considerable attention with his small-scale but hugely impressive bloodstained revenger […]
Pulling Focus
Pulling Focus: A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014)
“A film can be like a dream. It’s a fairy tale. It’s not beholden to rules or laws of the real world. I have no loyalty to the real world. Fuck the real world. Why would I make a film to try and show you what it’s like here?” – Ana Lily Amirpour Oh, […]
Pulling Focus: The Duke of Burgundy (2014)
“A complex and ultimately moving on the privileges of victimhood and the nuances of what it means to suffer for love.” – Stephanie Zacharek, Village Voice Love’s melody lost The Duke of Burgundy, which is a reference to the hamearis lucina butterfly found only in Europe, artfully details the love story of two lesbian […]
Pulling Focus: Everybody Wants Some!! (2016)
“We came for a good time, not for a long time.” – Willoughby (played by Wyatt Russell) Let the good times roll A loyal and warm-hearted love letter to youth and the impermanent magic hour that glimmers and glints just ahead of adulthood, Everybody Wants Some!! is the pleasantly meandering kind of picture that […]
Pulling Focus: Barton Fink (1991)
“A movie I really love is Barton Fink… I feel like there’s so much in there, you could watch it again and again.” – Charlie Kaufman Lost for words For a fact one of the Coen brothers’ most sideways mash-ups, Barton Fink synthesizes entertainment industry satire, film noir, the surreal, Künstlerroman designs, and the […]
Pulling Focus: The Graduate (1967)
“Any good movie is filled with secrets.” – Mike Nichols Daydream nation So much of the comedy in Mike Nichols’ zeitgeist-defining second film The Graduate, feels effortless and equipped with an intellectual exactitude. When it opened in 1967 it was the sort of film that audiences found to be forward, fearless, and even a […]