Sunday, October 4, 2009

Nightdreams (1981, Francis Delia)

Ok, so this is most likely going to be the greatest amount of screenshots for a film I ever do in a review....the review follows at the end of all the photos.

















































































































If Kubrick did In the Realm of the Senses:

I think my summary pretty much, well, sums this one up; close to being a masterpiece, this one is, here are only SOME of the highlights: (it was co-written by Jerry Stahl, in the 80s, so if you're NOT expecting something like a heroin nightmare, you're in for a surprise):

- cast names
- wall of voodoo covering ring of fire while 3 women engage in some more adult orientated Cowgirl activities
- a group of 4 men smoking a hookah pipe that leads to a woman's "baby area"
- the "soundtracks" in various scenes
the breathy laughlike "ho ho ho ho"s in the first scene
the severely bizarre incomprehensible mumbling in the Arab scene

- the main character of the film brings a statute to life by sensually rubbing his groin o his groin proceeds to turn into a baby

- the dialogue

- the main character goes down on a black dude, dressed up in a Cream of Wheat box, while Old Man River plays; then after a few minutes, a toasted piece of wonderbread, wearing sunglasses, joins in; snapping away and jiving those cool daddy-o hips.

- The soundtrack in general; it's like something Zorn would have submitted to a porn film.

- Apparently Satan is Chinese, and is violently bitter over the fact that he doesn't receive "checks for $5 20,000 times a day."

- The sound in the film was monitored by, you got it, Russel L. Whitemeat.

Seek it out, watch it; you'll either thank me or want to kick me in the face.

Rating: 9/10

Saturday, October 3, 2009

The Girlfriend Experience (2009, Soderbergh)










Oh man, the dude that directed all those Oceans movies is doing a movie and the main actress is a PORN STAR!!!1; CUH-RAZY.

Not really, not at all, not one bit; it's a painfully boring, trite and forgettable waste of time. I've never been a big fan of Soderbergh, always considered him to be pretty much a vapid hipster doofus who feels it his call in life to champion independents films and then turn around and make some of the most mundane and insipid trash.










The porn chick is a hideous sight to behold; genuinely boring in appearance and execution of everything, even watching her walk is coma inducing. The few times, you can count them on one finger and only need 2 segments of said finger, she actually tries to convey some sort of emotion are laughable; this, my friends, is not a good thing.










What else? Yeah, what else? There is nothing else; the film is, predictably, told out of order. Nobody is worth noting in any regards, really.

This could have been ground breaking: 40 years ago.

2/10