3 things about Aaron Schimberg’s A DIFFERENT MAN [2024]
1. Watching a how-to video on whistling while chopping onions.
2. The peeling as viewed in a mirror.
3. Brilliant karaoke of “I Wanna Get Next To You.”
3 things about Aaron Schimberg’s A DIFFERENT MAN [2024]
1. Watching a how-to video on whistling while chopping onions.
2. The peeling as viewed in a mirror.
3. Brilliant karaoke of “I Wanna Get Next To You.”
3 things about Faith & John Hubley’s EVERYBODY RIDES THE CAROUSEL [1976]
1. Repeatedly throwing the spoon on the floor.
2. Happy masks, doubtful inner faces.
3. An unusual trick-or-treater.
3 things about Aaron Wertheimer’s NOT IF I SEE YOU FIRST [2025]
1. “We actually worked with someone from NASA on the alien ejaculate.”
2. Big Red interlude.
3. His identical twin brother is a disembodied head.
3 things about Mervyn LeRoy’s HOME BEFORE DARK [1958]
1. Compulsive smoking.
2. A bank account to which she does not have access, doesn’t even know what bank holds the account.
3. She insists on the Cornet hairstyle, the one her husband has picked out for her.
3 things about Michael Shannon’s ERIC LaRUE [2023]
1. That “new Bible” smell.
2. A box of Our Family brand cereal.
3. “I saw the inside of those boys.”
#3Things for FRI, Day of Rose & Vanilla
1. Spring means baby irises and giant weeds
2. Drove home from a gig last night under a cloudless sky and a gorgeous full moon
3. Finally getting a hike in today!
3 things about Fernando Ayala’s THE BITTER STEMS [1956]
1. Looking through the window of the train into the past.
2. A strategically loud orchestra.
3. Shallow planting.
3 things about Brian Levant’s THE FLINTSTONES [1994]
1. Kids playing in Jurassic Park.
2. He ignores his mother-in-law and unties the pet dino.
3. The invention of concrete.
3 things about Steve De Jarnatt’s MIRACLE MILE [1988]
1. They choose to spend their last moment’s eating at Canters Deli and who can blame them?
2. Dying at the bottom of an escalator.
3. Tar pit crash.
3 things about John Frankenheimer’s SEVEN DAYS IN MAY [1964]
1. “I’ll make you two promises: a very good steak, medium rare, and the truth, which is very rare.”
2. The senator refers to Jiggs’s collection of military medals, ribbons, and badges as fruit salad.
3. A few laps in the pool followed by a cigarette.
3 things about Jûzô Itami’s TAMPOPO [1985]
1. Passing the yolk back and forth.
2. The pork slices must be 3mm thick.
3. Spaghetti etiquette.
3 things about Gints Zilbalodis’s FLOW [2024]
1. Collecting a pile of fishes.
2. The bird ascends into space.
3. A basket of shiny objects.
3 things about Zucker/Abrahams/Zucker’s TOP SECRET! [1984]
1. “Nick, I’ve tried everything: the embassy, the German government, the consulate. I even talked to the U.N. ambassador. It’s no use, I just can’t bring my wife to orgasm.”
2. A caravan of vehicles going around in circles.
3. Boots on the desk.
3 things about Walter Salles’s I’M STILL HERE [2024]
1. Singing along to Tom Ze in the car.
2. Rubbing Coca-Cola onto their skin at the beach.
3. Escorting her from the police barracks, the young soldier tells her, “I want you to know I don’t approve of this.”
3 things about Jake VanKersen’s I AGREE WITH YOU [2025]
1. “Improv Frasier” and the terrible accent of the performer playing Daphne.
2. Roll of cookie dough.
3. “Get your flabby asscheeks in here.”
3 things about Yorgos Lanthimos’s KINDS OF KINDNESS [2024]
1. Tennis racket in plexiglass.
2. Either her leg or her liver.
3. Lick test.
3 things about Alfred Hitchcock’s SUSPICION [1941]
1. “I’m honest because with you I think it’s the best way to get results.”
2. A game of Anagrams.
3. The car turns around and the film ends.
3 things about Yasujirô Ozu’s TOKYO STORY [1953]
1. There are only two camera movements in the entire film.
2. The young people are always telling them they must be tired; they aren’t, but nevertheless agree out of politeness.
3. “You may be happy while you’re still young. But as you become older, you’ll find it lonely.”
“I won’t get that old, so don’t worry.”
3 things about Steven Soderbergh’s PRESENCE [2024]
1. He points out that her approach to problems always seems to involve taking no action.
2. An unexpected reflection.
3. “Make good choices. The bad ones tend to affect you for the rest of your life.”
3 things about Frederick Wiseman’s ASPEN [1991]
1. “I’m here to tell you, the way to grow old gracefully is to get cosmetic surgery.”
2. Brief appearances by John Denver and Ed Bradley!
3. The artist noticed which way the art world was going. Conservative. She switched from abstract expressionism back to realism.