talked about alongside project x on this week's extended clip: all-night rager edition.
soundcloud.com/extendedclip/60-sorry-for-party-rocking
this week also marks the launch of our patreon. for $2/mo, you get a new bonus ep every week (lists, interviews, single film reviews) and immediate access to s1 of bank check, our new subpodcast about auteurism. the first season is about the films of peter and bobby farrelly.
77 minutes of pulse pounding with a beautifully melancholic finale, pour one out for the geysers. audie murphy's 5'5 build is perfect for sleazily sliding across the cinemascope frame, and his eyes pop through the screen whenever arnold moves in for a medium close-up. hooting and hollering at his delivery of the line "you are an organizer as well as a physician".
90 minutes of a movie for guys who get off on the fantasy of radicalizing their former high school bullies into liberalism (or, uncle booksmart) followed by 10 minutes of nonsense that recalls the apolitical-political cinema of the 2000s (swing vote). the blocking and editing of this film are worse than the politics of anyone involved.
filmmaker taika waititi isn't afraid to ask the big questions, such as "what if hitler was random and adorkable?"
