Duncan Gray

Review: 'If I Had Legs I'd Kick You' Is Like 'Uncut Gems' for Moms Rose Byrne plays a mother at her wit's end in Mary Bronstein's jagged black comedy.

The original UNCUT GEMS for moms: THE RECKLESS MOMENT

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That Monica Vitti retrospective going on in NYC right now might help...she was a pioneer of big hair

Considering that Marya herself didn't know about the marriage, when they say it was "not documented", they weren't kidding.

Theory that Stacy's Mom, Jessie's Girl, and Somebody's Baby are all the same person. The timelines could match.

A film that starts like a rocket!

My favorite of Sirk in his thriller mode is still LURED, though.

May
THE ILE-AUX-COUDRES TRILOGY
DUST IN THE WIND
7TH HEAVEN (Borzage)
DRUGSTORE COWBOY
THE LONG FAREWELL
BAD LIEUTENANT (Herzog)
WHAT'S UP, DOC?
HOUSE OF BAMBOO
LIBELED LADY
THE MYSTERY OF OBERWALD
NICKELODEON

Gerald "Gerry" Gates, 1950-2025 A tribute to spending one last month with my Dad

I wrote about watching movies with my Dad.

The movie is way less interesting as a thriller than as a study of two couples—and which one has a dynamic Hitchcock clearly thinks is healthier

We don't talk nearly enough about Harris's place as the last of the Hitchcock blondes.

Especially since she also serves as a foil for Karen Black as a character whose boyfriend is TRYING to make her a Hitchcock blonde, but it's not taking.

"Monk if you love meditating"

I have nothing but fond memories of it from when I was 12, and I've been told never, ever to revisit them.

Put two cinephiles in a room and you'll get three pronunciations of "Frank Borzage"

Yeah, it'd be totally contrary to her character.

But counterpoint: look at it.

Now that NEW YORK, NEW YORK and ONE FROM THE HEART have been successfully reclaimed, AT LONG LAST LOVE is the next logical step.

The Virgin Suicides This adaptation of Jeffrey Eugenides’s debut novel is the first feature written and directed by Sofia Coppola, who since its release has celebrated an astounding career as a multihyphenate filmmaker o...

Our wishcasting has already manifested this:

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In-person guests, tickets booked

LA theaters, how dare you make me choose between BEAU TRAVAIL with Claire Denis in person or CLUELESS with Amy Heckerling in person

A huge congratulations!

Fingers crossed your book tour means someone in LA breaks out a print of MARIE ANTOINETTE.

I just found out that Angelo Badalamenti did the music for CHRISTMAS VACATION and have decided that this merits close examination

January
DODSWORTH
TIH MINH
FREEZE DIE COME TO LIFE
HARD TRUTHS
MAINE-OCEAN EXPRESS
IT'S NOT ME
PRINCESS YANG KWEI FEI
A GENTLE WOMAN
THE NEON DEMON
QUEER
GUMMO
NOSFERATU (2024)
SATURDAY NIGHT

I approve on principle these days of a blockbuster director spending $200 million to tell fans to go away and try watching THE BAND WAGON instead. But intriguing concept or no, my god, the onscreen result is so inert.

Correction: JANET PLANET is AFTERSUN if it ended in the right place.

LADY BIRD + THE WICKER MAN = JANET PLANET?

I've gotten past "the problem with JUROR #2 is that it doesn't feel compellingly real" and have moved on to "the problem with JUROR #2 is that it doesn't feel compellingly unreal"

November
THE PRIME OF MISS JEAN BRODIE
THE AMERICAN FRIEND
ALL WE IMAGINE AS LIGHT
ESTHER KAHN
THE CHASE
PITFALL
INSIDE THE YELLOW COCOON SHELL
ODDS AGAINST TOMORROW
ADIEU PHILIPPINE
THE BURMESE HARP
TWO WOMEN
COMFORT AND JOY
OASIS
TRAP
EMILIA PEREZ
INSIDE OUT 2
DAHOMEY

If we need a Barbenheimer/Glicked name for when NOSFERATU and A COMPLETE UNKNOWN open on the same day, I humbly submit Subterranean Homesick Blood.

Muddle through > hang a star

I know that Francis Ford Coppola's TWIXT is a blend of several fantastical ideas, but honestly, the one that's sticking with me is that a haunted, out-of-the-way small town forgotten by time has an In-N-Out Burger

This is me in pretty much any good rep screening

I have to admit, what makes me curious is how they'll handle Margot. I found her vague on the page, or a conduit for perceiving men...the story gave a very sharp characterization of a middle-aged creeper, but I wasn't at all sure what "a Margot thing to do" would be. And on film that's a curveball.