Best films of 2022. I normally do 1 through 10 but in 2022, no films stood above the rest. The Batman The Black Phone A Love Song The Fabelmans The Menu Aftersun The Banshees of Inisherin The Inspection Elvis Tar Honorable Mention: Emily the Criminal, The Whale, I Love My Dad, Decision to Leave, Everything Everywhere All at Once, She Said.
Rumble Fish
Time, how one spends one's time in life, self-actualization, death. Motorcycle Boy is seemingly trapped in being a legend, a victim of greatness and fame. He doesn't even have a name. He's Motorcycle Boy. Like Elvis or Marilyn or whoever. And doomed to a similar fate. He goes to California but never makes it to the ocean. "California got in the way". "California" being an allusion to Hollywood, stardom, fame, and everything that comes with it. Never makes it to the ocean but he gets his picture in a magazine, hair slicked back leaning against his motorcycle. Once again, Motorcycle Boy becomes a brand, becomes an object, a representation. But not real. Rusty James is very different. He has no
Top Ten Films of 2021
1- Westside Story 2- Belfast 3- Mass 4- Pig 5- The Humans 6- The Lost Daughter 7- The Rescue 8- Riders of Justice 9- House of Gucci 10- I'm Your Man Honorable Mention (in order): Worst Person in the World, Power of the Dog, Titane, Licorice Pizza, Old Henry, The Card Counter, Bo Burnham: Inside, Swan Song, Coda)
Top Ten Films of 2020
James Cameron Quote
The Dark Knight (2008) Screenplay
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‘The King Of Staten Island’ On VOD Friday, June 12th
Available On Demand June 12 https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=233&v=a4wsbzhKnSE&feature=emb_logo This summer, Apatow directs Saturday Night Live's Pete Davidson in a bracing comedy about love, loss and laughter on Staten Island. Scott (Davidson) has been a case of arrested development ever since his firefighter father died when he was seven. He’s now reached his mid-20s having achieved little, chasing a dream of becoming a tattoo artist that seems far out of reach. As his ambitious younger sister (Maude Apatow, HBO’s Euphoria) heads off to college, Scott is still living with his exhausted ER nurse mother (Oscar® winner Marisa Tomei) and spends his days smoking weed, hanging with the guys—Oscar (Ricky Velez, Master of None), Igor (Moises Arias, Five Feet Apart) and Richie (Lou Wilson, TV’s The Guest
Noah Baumbach on Screenwriting
On December 5, 2019, filmmaker Noah Baumbach was the featured guest of the BAFTA Screenwriters’ Lecture Series. Baumbach, whose writing and directing movie credits include The Squid and the Whale, Margot at the Wedding, Greenberg, Frances Ha, Mistress America, The Meyerowitz Stories, and Marriage Story, delivered a lecture followed by a brief Q&A. https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=XIz_7A2F5u0&feature=emb_logo