Run for Cover (Nicholas Ray, 1955)
Deep End (Jerzy Skolimowski, 1970)
The Hunter (Rafi Pitts, 2010)
Story of a Prostitute (Seijun Suzuki, 1965)
Tourneur + Stanwyck
The Cat and the Canary (Radley Metzger, 1979)
The Petrified Forest (Archie Mayo, 1936)
One of Dreyer’s favorite films.
“Alfred Hitchcock Presents” Enough Rope for Two (David Chase, 1986)
The Saga of Anatahan (Josef von Sternberg, 1953)
What to say about Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle? A movie settled nicely in between the whiplash impressionism of the Wachowski’s Speed Racer and the kinetic, vulgar excesses of Neveldine/Taylor, and possibly even less encumbered by traditional notions of narrative than any of them. A movie that cost 120 million dollars, has a mafia boss named Antonioni, a beach bar stripped right out of Godard’s Made in U.S.A., and a bad guy who rocks Harry Powell’s LOVE/HATE knuckles.
Full Throttle completely tips over into fantasy in a way the first movie never did, and with that all of the radical, anarchic impulses that coasted just under the surface of that earlier film break through here with authority, savagely unleashing the expressive potentials that were flirted with before but never quite realized. The color spectrum is beyond scorched, the use of sound to evoke offscreen space very nearly approaches the Lewisian at times, and Crispin Glover’s Thin Man character, a sleek, icy, completely silent villainous presence in the original film is recast here into a disheveled, shriveled, tortured romantic who can barely make it through a scene without screeching like a banshee at the top of his lungs (McG finally watched Wild at Heart it would seem). A true Firing on All Cylinders movie, or something. I enjoyed the hell out of it.
Tim and Eric’s Billion Dollar Movie (Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim, 2012)
I wonder if Oliveira watched many classical westerns, and in particular I wonder if he’s ever seen Dwan’s Tennessee’s Partner. I think he’d like it.
