The Hold Steady THE PRICE OF PROGRESS (2023)

Craig Finn is a king among men, if I could join one band and play my saxophone like I had a month to live, it would be the Hold Steady, we'd turn the Springsteen knob up to 11 

The Big Lebowski by J.M. Tyree
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

essential for anyone who loves this film or is a fan of the Coen brothers. two of the giants of modern art, deserving of deep inquiry and exegesis. I'm pairing this with Tyree's excellent book on Pynchon's Inherent Vice, The Counterforce.

Braid FRAME & CANVAS 25th Anniversary Edition (2023)

 collect from clark kent

22 Favorite Films of 2022

2 of the 3 local theaters are shuttered, rough scenes for your boy 

here goes:

1. Babylon (dir. Damien Chazelle)

2. The Banshees of Inisherin (dir. Martin McDonagh)

3. Everything Everywhere All at Once (dir. Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert)

4. Tár (dir. Todd Field)

5. The Batman (dir. Matt Reeves)

6. Nope (dir. Jordan Peele)

7. Stars at Noon (dir. Claire Denis)

8. The Menu (dir. Mark Mylod)

9. Norm Macdonald: Nothing Special (dir. Norm Macdonald, Jeff Tomsic)

10. Decision to Leave (dir. Park Chan-wook)

11. The Northman (dir. Robert Eggers)

12. RRR (dir. S.S. Rajamouli)

13. Vengeance (dir. B.J. Novak)

14. White Noise (dir. Noah Baumbach)

15. Corsage (dir. Marie Kreutzer)

16. Confess, Fletch (dir. Greg Mottola)

17. Triangle of Sadness (dir. Ruben Östlund)

18. Emily the Criminal (dir. John Patton Ford)

19. Amsterdam (dir. David O. Russell)

20. Spin Me Round (dir. Jeff Baena)

21. Weird: The Al Yankovic Story (dir. Eric Appel)

22. Barbarian (dir. Zach Cregger)

honorable mention:

Cha Cha Real Smooth (dir. Cooper Raiff)

Crimes of the Future (dir. David Cronenberg)

All Quiet on the Western Front (dir. Edward Berger)

Men (dir. Alex Garland)

Ambulance (dir. Michael Bay)

pas pour moi:

Top Gun: Maverick (dir. Joseph Kosinski)

Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (dir. Sam Raimi)

MK Ultra (dir. Joseph Sorrentino)

See How They Run (dir. Tom George)

Death on the Nile (dir. Kenneth Branagh)

in progress:

Marcel the Shell with Shoes On (dir. Dean Fleischer Camp)

Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (dir. Rian Johnson)

next up: 

The Civil Dead (dir. Clay Tatum) 

Funny Pages (dir. Owen Cline)

Benoît Pioulard EIDETIC (2023)

 20 years ago we went to war in Iraq on nothing more than greed, bloodlust, and ignorance. 20 years in Afghanistan and we had crocodile tears from the Acela corridor when we pulled out. sure seems like now we're feeding a lot more kids into the meat grinder and cheering them on, hiding behind a flag that isn't ours. for fucking shame.

Jeffrey Fayman & Robert Fripp A TEMPLE IN THE CLOUDS (2000)

 canopy ecology: lianas, epiphytes & arboreal animals: ascending to the astral plane with spikes & spurs