There are no better greens in film than those contained in Miller's Crossing. Arsenic wallpaper vivid enough that I wonder if they somehow found some of the real stuff to use. Spent the first half hour desperately yearning for subtitles, but eventually settled into the story and found I didn't really need them after all. First time watching this in over thirty years. Gabriel Byrne had some great stories to tell afterward, at this 4th annual Bleak Week showing.
This is simply delightful, and perhaps my favorite find of this year's Bleak Week festival so far. Experimental 1990s design-based existentialist bullshit, but in the very best way. One-hundred percent bleak, but then why were we all laughing so much? Watch the wallpaper, watch the camera move, listen to the layered sound design. This one's not about the clothes, it's about the hanger.
"I don't like experimental film." - director Jon Jost
Black & white director’s cut at the Aero Theater for Bleak Week!
Things I love about seeing movies live in Los Angeles:
- the joyous cheer that went up when Mrs. Carmody got what was coming to her
- the deafening boos and jeers that filled the theater when Harvey Weinstein‘s producer credit came up at the end
I loved this version, it really emphasizes what this movie is at heart; an exceptional episode of The Twilight Zone, freed from the strictures of 1950s-era network standards and practices.
