• Ultimately it’s a slight disappointment after the promise of David Robert Mitchell’s talent in 2014’s It Follows (this isn’t as good) but I thought enough of it to archive it, scratch my head at how underrated it is on metacritic (currently at 60) and remain excited for what Robert Mitchell does next (and excited to see this film again)
  • I’m auteur-first—but studio A24 seems to be the same way—and I’m getting to the point where I start to get excited for a movie just by seeing their logo
beautiful piece of editing here
  • Early on a little squirrel days and Robert Mitchell does a very nice Vertigo/Jaw track-out, zoom-in—this isn’t the only hat-tip to Vertigo– Andrew Garfield follows a group of women for a 5-minute stretch and the throwback Bernard Herrmann-like score from Disasterpiece has to make any cinephile think of Vertigo
  • Posters of Creature from the Black Lagoon, Psycho, clip from Body Snatchers– David Robert Mitchell wears his influences on his sleeves here—the film probably most resembles the Coen brothers’ Big Lebowski or PTA’s Inherent Vice (both neo-noirs with non-traditional detectives set in LA).
David Robert Mitchell wears his influences on his sleeves here—the film probably most resembles the Coen brothers’ Big Lebowski or PTA’s Inherent Vice (both neo-noirs with non-traditional detectives set in LA).
  • I found the journey to be absolutely fascinating, plotless but great world-creating and certainly engaging —the version I saw was 139 minutes and it was an absolute breeze- I could have kept going—dog killers, missing billionaires, pattern seeking, repetition, conspiracy stuff about the dollar bill (with Patrick Fischler from Mulholland Drive which is absolutely on purpose), subliminal songs in vinyl records, a weird pirate,
  • True to David Robert Mitchell’s ongoing retro- hipster-ness from It Follows– You have Topher Grace playing videogames, drinking PBR, singing from Willy Wonka
Riley Keough is only in a few scenes but makes an impression — she’s been on an impressive run- this is her 7th archiveable film since 2012
  • Great split diopter shot with the movie screen—the single greatest shot may have been Garfield climbing into a night photograph of the Silver Lake reservoir
  • Genuinely scary sequence with the naked girl with the knife, mask
  • Music from Jarmusch’s Broken Flowers, Janet Gaynor references, James Dean at the conservatory
  • The songwriter mansion scene is strong- Nirvana and Backstreet Boys
  • Ultimately the film just ends and the conclusion isn’t as good as the journey
  • Recommend