Eddie
Watkins
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Style
- Auteur-driven
- Melancholy
- Deliriously surreal
- Canonical classics
- Shh!—silent cinema
- Other-worldly
- Avant-garde
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Eddie Watkins
1Jun11
Keeping to myself for the most part; at least as much as all my familial obligations will allow. I've missed you and others as well, but I've been suffering through a phase of on-line psychological disconnect.
Kimley
10Dec09
Totally understand. I think because it was Darren Aronofsky I was expecting something a bit less "Hollywood". But yes, I also see plenty of films where I put down my critical guard and just go with the flow. Nothing wrong with an "entertainment" now and then as Graham Greene would call it. And damn that Marisa Tomei. I think she's the same age as me and I do NOT look like that. Maybe I need to start doing strip aerobics... I know a few men who I suspect love that film just for her. Can't say that I blame them.
Kimley
10Dec09
You liked The Wrestler? I just watched it on cable the other night and was disappointed. Just felt formulaic and cliched to me. I knew exactly who this guy was and what was going to happen before I even started watching. Sure, there was a true-to-life empathy there but I just never felt hooked enough to really care beyond the obvious sadness.
Kimley
20Nov09
I generally like Bale as well although he does a lot of crap... But he's definitely an interesting actor. I love "Velvet Goldmine". I haven't seen "The Machinist" but I've seen clips and he really lost a lot of weight for that - makes him look downright fat in "Rescue Dawn". Good Baltimore/Waters story. And FYI, I secretly had Johnny Depp's love child... (I actually didn't really know anything about Johnny Depp until I saw him in Cry Baby.) They hardly have any John Waters films on this site. This site sucks!
Reviews
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Magnificent Obsession
Beneath the blindness, the boat crash, the deaths and near deaths, and all the raging melodrama and narrative ridiculousness, the light of the Ideal glows and glows until it permeates the screen like… read review
Factotum
Captures all the street-level depressive alcoholic haze that hovers like an invisible atmosphere behind Bukowski’s outrageous drunken exploits. Not as in-your-face as Barfly (as I remember it), and… read review
Riding Giants
The last place anyone would find me is on a surfboard. Not only would I be incapable of riding a wave, but I actually have no interest in doing such a thing. It feels good to not long for something… read review
