Is This a Jack-Knife Man I See Before Me?

With The Jack-Knife Man (1920), the Vidor oeuvre proper commences. The recruiting poster poseur of Bud’s Recruit is out. The Backyard Expressionist is IN. For the next four decades, before his creativity finally jack-knifed on the highway to Monism, Vidor managed to keep his camera trained on the crossroads between Mid-Victorian Melodrama and Modernist Mindfuck. It’s [...]

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Lynch Meme

So much to write about, and so little time! Here’s a fun exercise that I did manage to complete, prompted by an IMDB thread, of all things! Rank the Lynch films (giving a few reasons along the way)–and then tack on 5 favourite non-Lynch films. This is what I came up with: 1. Mulholland Dr. [...]

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