Notes on What to Watch (worldwide)
Fitzcarraldo
The world is run by mad men.
A madman wants to build an opera in the jungle without noticing the amazon was already a kind of opera.
The Trouble with Harry
Under appreciated Hitchcock is great transport to an idyllic Vermont autumnal americano screwball comedy daydream.
pairs well with the Carol Burnett Show
Alice Doesn’t Live here anymore
Men don't protect Women or children, a (familiar) story. {so familiar it became a sitcom}
Mavauis Sang
What’s love got to do with it?
Leos Carax's poetic 1986 (young vs secure (but feeble)) love story inside a heist movie with two orbiting sci-fi plots, is the third demonstration of Carax’s unique way of mashing up the troupes of classic epics with the current atmosphere and realities of everyday people. Carax’s shows how we each feel epic while walking around ordinary at the same time Halley’s Comet makes it too hot to have a shirt on, during an STD pandemic.
The Lobster
Polis. I am worried by how few people understand the 2015 dark comedy, The Lobster, directed (and co-produced and written) by Yorgos Lanthimos. I remember the film like a dance. Like a contra dance you’d see in a remake of Pride and Prejudice where you get lifted up in a way that makes you gleeful.
Why rules. What rules. Who rules.
Pachinko (season 1)
Generational trauma fermented into heart achingly beautiful, honest drama to remind you that there is no credibility to the global post-industrial world. A truce shall be drawn and honored among all of humanity. Death to Imperialism. If you liked Dr. Zhivago.
My Beautiful Launderette
Heart lifting story about (forbidden) young love and the struggle for life and liberty in thatcher era UK that takes LGBTQ+/Immigrant/Racism themes head on in 1986 with charm and grace.
LongLegs
Longlegs, hits like a protein powder made from the husks of all the classic HORROR I grew up on, the nutrients are present but there's not much to chew on. Visuals pay off more than plot points but the mood is spot on. Directed by Ozgood Perkins. Distributed by Neon. 1h 41m, Horror/Crime
Starring: Maika Monroe, Blair Underwood, Nicholas Cage, Michelle Choi-Lee, Alicia Witt
Kiss Me Deadly
Hard-boiled private detective Mike Hammer finds himself entangled after picking up a femme fatale hitchhiker. A taut film noir that unfolds in a cold sweat. (A classic 'whats in the box' plot.)
Double Feature: Repo Man for a generational leap to 1984, Los Angeles dealing with a similar problem.
Repo Man
Repo Man is a 1984 science fiction comedy written and directed by Alex Cox in his directorial debut. Set in Los Angeles, the plot hinges off car repossession when a “young punk” (Estevez) teams up with Stanton and gets caught up again and again in the pursuit of a Chevrolet Malibu.
Double Feature with Kiss Me Deadly
Contempt (Le Mepris)
Film about filmmaking structured around a writer (Michel Piccoli) and his wife (Brigitte Bardot) coming undone. Godard’s 6th film.
Contempt (French: Le Mépris) Directed by Jean Luc Godard, 1963
Credentials
Lillest Hobo earned BAs from
Visual Arts Department of
University of California, San Diego
approximately 2004 - 2008 (I transferred from City College {that’s how I finished high school})
i got a few degrees later on but education wasn’t really a pathway to affording to live. I am just holding up the bottom. As part of the underclass, it turns out you’re only options are different forms of poverty. that’s all i’ve found. Opportunities always slip into traps. I am trapped in a concrete jungle full of religious sex pests and low wages. h e doublechopsticks. what a stupid way to be forced into using a life, there are worse ways but that is not a hiding place.