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JJJames
Celluloid Junkie - 4428 Films Ranked
Member Since: Apr 26, 2008
Location: Canada
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100 The Chase (1946) - Dec 15, 2010
Mini-Review: michele morgan's seaside midnight ponderings exist as haunting visualizations of spiritual mortality: she stands encased in a virginal white dress as her tearful visage washes in and out of a mass of rushing water in a series of ethereal crossfades, her attire changing to a deep black gown in a starling narrative fissure that stylistically and conceptually lays the course for the film's later immersions into the characters' murky subconscious. mystifying and beautiful. arthur ripley was insane.
95 Vinyl (1965) - Mar 10, 2009
Mini-Review: avoids everything lame about kubrick's plus it's way funnier
93 Splice (2010) - Nov 18, 2010
Mini-Review: brilliant, confrontational, incisively perversive. there's more than a shade of zulawski's POSSESSION in the film's late developments, even going beyond both parents' sexual contact with their not-quite-human son/daughter/it and into dren's thorough rapture of their relationship and respective backgrounds, most significantly polley's emotionally neglectful childhood and how she brings dren to be ostensibly nurtured at the place where she faced her deepest psychological bruising.
28 Machete (2010) - Feb 28, 2011
Mini-Review: robert rodriguez and his movies are distressingly symptomatic of the putrid sensibility that sees me having to put up with fifty dimwitted assholes making shitty fucking jokes at every single screening of a fulci or lenzi or castellari film. this is a cinematic atrocity and a giant smear of shit across the faces of the films he claims to love. please see THE HOUSE OF THE DEVIL for a recent example of grindhouse pastiche as genuine, wholehearted art.
86 It's Alive 2: It Lives Again (1978) - Jan 03, 2011
Mini-Review: if fatherhood was the original film's central consideration, the expanded scope of the sequel allows cohen an affecting depiction of horrific maternal grief and self-doubt; the culmination comes when kathleen lloyd asks john p. ryan when she'll see her child again and he responds "maybe it's better that you don't," his answer clearly referring to much more than the danger of the child ripping its mother to shreds, and it is in that emotional gulf where the crux of cohen's trenchant genius lays.
 
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