Suspense.
One hundred eleven years old. Eleven minutes long. Totally holds up. Some really clever shots. Director Lois Weber is the first known American female film maker. Watch it! It’s on YouTube.
Yacht Rock: A Dockumentary
You have no idea how much of the music of the 1970s was made by half a dozen guys. Come for the story, stay for the Donald Fagen “interview.”
The End
Oh, how I wanted to to like this. A two and a half hour post-apocalyptic musical set in a huge underground bunker, with a cast that includes Michael Shannon and Tilda Swinton, could be a magical thing. It has flashes of greatness, but most of it doesn’t work.
Even if you accept the empty story (pretty much everyone’s character is “generic archetype of a person who did a never-fully-disclosed Bad Thing”) and the not-particularly-memorable songs performed by people with varying levels of singing ability, you’ll get thrown right out of the reality of the movie when a man clearly in his thirties seems to be playing a teenager.
I can only pick one of the movie graphics I made as the featured image, but if you actually read this you get to see the other two as well.
