Film on the Internet: APOCALYPSE NOW (1979) and APOCALYPSE NOW REDUX on Hulu and Amazon Prime
and all the children are insane. . . Of all the Vietnam War films, Apocalypse Now is…
Grant Nebel ("wallflower")
A Silver Age (2007) commenter from the AV Club who crossed over to the Dissolve at its inception in 2013. You can follow his writings here and in the comment section at The Dissolve, and his music on his Soundcloud channel (see any Soundtracking here for that).
Articles:
Film on the Internet: ELECTION (1999) on Amazon Prime
Election was released a few months before the debut of Aaron Sorkin’s TV series The West…
Scenic Route: I’M NOT THERE (2007)
The formal climax of Todd Haynes’ I’m Not There consists of a long monologue by…
New Modes for Old Truths: Les Blank and the Living Past
Les Blank’s documentaries cover a range of subjects but keep coming back to some fundamental…
The Avathoir/Wallflower American Vampire Conversation, Installment 10
Interlude Warning: Like all Conversations in this series, this contains SPOILERS. wallflower: One of the…
Soundtracking #19: THE HITCHER (1986)
The occasional podcast on music and movies. Yes, there are SPOILERS here. Also references to…
Film on the Internet: THE WAY OF THE GUN (2000) on Amazon Prime
For most movies, you don’t want to spoil the ending. For Christopher McQuarrie’s The Way of the…
THE AMERICANS and the Problem with Prestige Television
PULP IS DORK CODE FOR ENTERTAINING–ZODIAC MOTHERFUCKER Tomorrow night’s episode of The Americans (Joe Weisberg,…
Film on the Internet: RONIN (1998) on Amazon Prime
Like Sneakers, Ronin feels like a 1970s movie that somehow got made in the 1990s. The plot…
Soundtracking #18: INTERSTELLAR (2014)
The occasional podcast on music and movies, with bonus geekery and SPOILERS on this one!…