dense Hollywood bottlebrush...
...is a good thing if directed by Brian de Palma. After overhearing a chef at my school's campus center rave about the way Frankie Goes to Hollywood's "Relax" was implemented in Body Double, a film by the aforementioned gritty-but-good auteur (who's now most well known as producer of Tarantino films), I figured I'd better check it out. So check it out I did, and a wild, wild romp through the under & overcurrents of the working stiff's Hollywood it was. I don't want to spoil anything, but all I'm gonna say is if you're a film AND a theatre fan, you have needs see this movie. And if you're not, but a whodunit mishmashing of production tropes from adult films, b cinema, b horror flicks, tarantino-esque plot twists & heroics, Hitchcock's Rear Window, and a little bit o' Shakespeare sounds right about up your alley, then sprint to your local alt video store and git it!!!!
new films/*films on my list:
X-men III
Mission Impossible III
Thank You For Smoking
The Break-up
*Match Point
*Anne of Avonlea
*Body Double
Tonight:
*Fallen Angels by Wong Kar WaI
~~~~~~~~Palm priviledges (free access to any movie theatre in the county & all films at Insomniac, the local alt video rental place) & self-discipline in tow, it looks like I may finally reach my goal of seeing all movies that play locally in theatres this summer (except the ones I know will cause me to waste time feeling crappy after i leave the theatre, such as Omen 666) plus all on fat lists I've been piling up over the past year or so...YESSSS!!
P.S. The Blanchard chef was right, absolutely right. I mean, for one, how often is a song about coming put to correct use in film? And for two, how often is a full-scale re-enactment of Rocky Horror Picture Show gone pornographic shown in a film..well...ever? Relax was by far one of the best sequences in the film, and I'm so thankful I happened to be in the right place at the right time to get the grapevine on thishere fine slice of cinemeatic cherry pie.
new films/*films on my list:
X-men III
Mission Impossible III
Thank You For Smoking
The Break-up
*Match Point
*Anne of Avonlea
*Body Double
Tonight:
*Fallen Angels by Wong Kar WaI
~~~~~~~~Palm priviledges (free access to any movie theatre in the county & all films at Insomniac, the local alt video rental place) & self-discipline in tow, it looks like I may finally reach my goal of seeing all movies that play locally in theatres this summer (except the ones I know will cause me to waste time feeling crappy after i leave the theatre, such as Omen 666) plus all on fat lists I've been piling up over the past year or so...YESSSS!!
P.S. The Blanchard chef was right, absolutely right. I mean, for one, how often is a song about coming put to correct use in film? And for two, how often is a full-scale re-enactment of Rocky Horror Picture Show gone pornographic shown in a film..well...ever? Relax was by far one of the best sequences in the film, and I'm so thankful I happened to be in the right place at the right time to get the grapevine on thishere fine slice of cinemeatic cherry pie.