Yes, I have just done a naked forward roll. But there was a good reason Adrian Chiles

Opinion Homes I've no fewer than 17 wooden spoons. But I have a favourite and I'd miss it for ever if it went missing Adrian Chiles

Celebrating 4/20 in your 20’s vs celebrating 4/20 in your 30’s

It is with profound regret that I forgot to mention on this Chicago-based podcast that Friedkin was from Chicago, went to Senn High School (pretty close to where I live)

I’m back on @dovewhether.com talking about William Friedkin’s Sorcerer and how much I would not like to drive a large truck, filled with dynamite or not

Reds and Warren Beatty in general were both favorite topics of conversation between me and my late friend Jim Gabriel, who regaled me with the story of seeing the film in theaters when he was young and the huge impact it had on him. Watching it for the first time since his passing in 2023, I couldn’t help but get teary-eyed listening to the remembrances of all the Witnesses of these long-since-past events and people, and wishing I could talk with Jim about it again.

Got wistful thinking about how often Jim and I talked about this one

A central theme in Warren Beatty’s work as star/producer-turned-writer/director is what happens when romantic, political or personal ideals meet a hostile or more complicated reality, and how that lays bare all their characters’ flaws and failures. It’s less a rejection of the believer than recognition that the circumstances that shape their fortunes are often contingent and beyond their control, and how quickly time leaves them by. This obsession, further explored later in Bulworth and my beloved Rules Don’t Apply, is best articulated in Reds.

The domestic arguments between the two are not disconnected from the political bull sessions and internecine arguments, they’re a reflection of how each relationship (personal or political, individual or collective) is a series of navigations of often conflicting needs and interests. I find the parallel between their attempts to reject traditional social expectations and their belief in the revolution especially effective, as I don’t think the film simply rejects these things as impossible and foolhardy. Instead, it takes these ideas and convictions seriously while showcasing the gulf between what we envision for ourselves and what happens in practice

The use of documentary interviews (“Witnesses”) as a sort of Greek chorus only further underscores the film’s deceptive slipperiness. The presence of Hugo Gellert, George Jessel, Henry Miller et al gives the film a greater texture and historical perspective, but their perspectives are limited, useful but also usefully imperfect on a thematic and formal level. Witnesses contradict each other and themselves, misremember things, praise or bury Reed, and often work as an ironic counterpoint to what we actually see or simply as another voice in Reds’ choir of contrasting interests. Dirty old Miller is especially funny and sometimes incisive, but are we meant to take his contention that “a guy who’s always interested in the condition of the world and chancing it has no problems or refuses to face them” at face value? No more than we’re meant to take Eugene O’Neill’s analysis of Jack and Louise at face value, I’d wager

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A ★★★★★ review of Reds (1981) Likely fifth or sixth viewing, first in 10 years and first in a theater. A central theme in Warren Beatty’s work as star/producer-turned-writer/director is what happens when romantic, political or per...

Went long on Warren Beatty’s Reds boxd.it/dTItdF

when you're not a morning person but you get a morning person job, everyone tells you you'll get used to waking up early but i'm here to tell you that's a fat fucking lie

Seeing Flesh for Frankenstein for the first time last night with my sweetheart in 3D 🎉🥰

…seated directly in front of the single most obnoxious group of drunk moviegoers I’ve ever encountered, hated by everyone around them but not listening to multiple people telling them to shut up😒

I want JB and Brandon to shut up about how queer and trans friendly Chicago is until they pony up relocation grants and affordable housing policy.

god I hate this shit

Post a non-religious photo you think of as holy

just mistyped “Endocrine Society” as “Endocrime Society” which will now be the name of my band

just a cold this time but I’m a huge baby when I’m sick tbh

Alfred Hitchcock holding a large L

sick again

You have to separate the art from the artist by which I mean enjoy The State and Stella without engaging with an annoying online guy from the old site

Before I came out I used to say that this one had me dead to rights other than the “daughter” part lmao

Marty Supreme not winning is the most Marty Supreme thing that could've happened.

Roughly 90% of my mail in the last few weeks have been mudslinging mailers from Fine and her supporters attacking her opponents

Holy shit, Warner Archive is putting out LAST SUMMER. One of the most upsetting, potent coming-of-age movies I have ever seen (complimentary)

Lost in America

A Different Image

Raw Deal

The Company

Best new-to-me films in February:

Lost in America
A Different Image
Raw Deal (1948)
The Company
Send Help
Multi-Handicapped

Canvassing while Black is NOT a crime, something I had to remind one of my neighbors AND the police last Friday.

Stay until the end to watch the interaction for yourself.

tossup between Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (friend and I left the theater swearing) and The Devil Inside (entire audience loudly rejected the awful ending)

mickey rourke as the motorcycle boy in rumble fish is the embodiment of You Smoke Too Tough. Your Swag Too Different. Your Bitch Is Too Bad, They'll Kill You

‘I've always remembered something Sanford Meisner, my acting teacher, told us. When you create a character, it's like making a chair, except instead of making someting out of wood, you make it out of yourself. That's the actor's craft - using yourself to create a character.’

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screenshot from Marty Supreme, a smirking Timothee Chalamet in a robe and glasses talks into a wired black phone

screenshot from The Testament of Ann Lee, a room of people in 18th century English clothing dances with Amanda Seyfried at the center

screenshot from The Secret Agent, Wagner Moura surrounded by three shady guys in front of a yellow phone booth

screenshot from If I Had Legs I’d Kick You, A$AP Rocky holds a phone with the light on, a coffee cup and a joint and looks alarmed while staring upward, Rose Byrne stares up while wearing a t-shirt for the album “Cheap Thrills” by Big Brother and the Holding Company

New releases:

Marty Supreme
The Testament of Ann Lee
The Secret Agent
If I Had Legs I’d Kick You
Highest 2 Lowest
Nouvelle Vague

screenshot from Joint Security Area, a Korean woman in Swiss military clothing leans forward over a seated Korean man in military clothing

screenshot from Deaf, a Black teenage boy with glasses and a hearing aid leans over homework while holding a marker while a white woman teacher reads in the background

screenshot from Cafe Flesh, a seated grouchy looking white man in a dark tank top stares at another seated white man in a black coat, who points toward an alarmed-looking white woman seated between them wearing a white top white hearts on it

screenshot from Dr. Caligari, a giant fleshy-looking door with a large mouth and protruding tongue towers over a seated white woman in a yellow tank top and underwear touching the tongue

Best new-to-me films in January:

Joint Security Area
Deaf
Cafe Flesh
Dr. Caligari
We Won’t Grow Old Together
The Plot Against Harry