* Eaten Alive (Hooper, 1977) (theater)|||||7.5
Hellbenders (Petty, 2012)||||4.5
Vanishing Point (Sarafian, 1971)|||||4.5
Gone in 60 Seconds (Halicki, 1974)|||||6
Carrie (Peirce, 2013)|||||5
The Apple (Makhmalbaf, 1998)||||8
A Touch of Sin (Jia, 2013)|||||6.5
24 City (Jia, 2008)|||||6.5
Gravity (Caurón, 2013)|||||5.5
This is 40 (Apatow, 2012)|||||5
Dead-End Drive In (Trenchard-Smith, 1986)|||||6
Room 237 (Ascher, 2013)|||||5
Something of a feature-length indulgence. A geek show of cinephilic interpretations, a reveling in cinematic wonders that is content to gaze resolutely inward. An over-validated A/V club project, but one that will provoke kindly regard from anyone who believes in the symbolic power of films (such as me) - particularly Lamberto Bava's Demons. Its construction consisting entirely of helpful graphics, clips from other movies, and a stream of The Shining manipulations, the film is purely ends via nerdy means, which are half truths, half ineffectively neutral interpretive fondling.
