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I make music under the name Evan Wesley. My album After the Cataclysm is available on the services below.
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I keep track of what I watch on Letterboxd.
Recent reviews
Visually beautiful - reminded me a lot of theater with the painted backdrops and well crafted sound stages. The sparse soundtrack contributes greatly to the mood. As usual with anthologies - my major complaint is simply a lack of consistency. The Black Hair and Hoichi the Earless are both so fantastic and I could live in them forever. The other two, especially the last just really feels lackluster and out of place in comparison - even if it kind… Read on Letterboxd
A Nightmare on Elm Street 1984
First time seeing this 80 horror classic. I thought every little set piece was good, especially the first and last. The final home alone style battle is hilarious. The acting and dialogue here definitely keep it at a lower tension level than something like Halloween but it still has scares. Feels like it just sort of ends…not a real resolution even though I find the last scene funny.
As usual, ironic that this deep unsettling portrait of male induced distress is directed by Polanski. This girl is obviously losing it. That said, her acts of violence against men are completely justified! The sound design (never have footsteps and clocks been so scary), the arms bursting out of walls, creepy stuff.
This movie looks and sounds so cool. Patricia Arquette getting in a car 👌🏼 Haunting movie about someone who has done something terrible imagining and fantasizing what could have been - and even that goes terribly wrong. The scene at the end is like one of the most beautiful things put to film and then that rug pull: you’ll never have me. I very much agree with Arquette’s interpretation here: "To me, it's sort of a movie about looking at women… Read on Letterboxd
Some good set pieces and I liked the soundtrack. Otherwise a mess in almost every other way.
So glad the restored version now exists in high quality. Much better than viewing a bootleg dvd with cut in footage from a vhs documentary. Oliver Reed masterful performance. Redgrave too. Not a subtle movie. Kind of wallops your brain but such a great mix of like 1970’s political and radical filmmaking with a historic drama at the center.
