Daniel Johnston is a musician known throughout the world for both his
comic book style artwork and his songs of unrequited love. Many
underground music fans in America are familiar with him, but mainstream
America has somehow overlooked his body of work. Maybe that is because
he spent a large part of his life in and out of mental institutions
fighting his maniac depression and the beckoning of the Devil.
Lonesome Jim moves at a deliberately slow but tolerable pace. It’s one
of those films that critics will not appreciate much because it isn’t
challenging...
Brick takes a fresh look at the noir genre. There’s a murder, a
detective, a femme fatal, a shady back story that slowly unfolds,
corruption, betrayal,...
Drawing Restraint 9 - IFC Films
At first glance; beautifully breathtaking. This film looks and feels gorgeous, amazing cinematography. Ship on an ocean;...
Welcome to A Prairie Home Companion, the poor man’s hillbilly version of A Mighty Wind. The term Prairie Home Companion can also be used to describe my very best friend I had growing up; an old wooden plank with a rotting goldfish nailed to it with a bent rusty nail that I hid in underneath the haystacks in our barn, which eventually gave me lockjaw, but hey, I had to learn how to kiss sometime. Did I mention I come from a small town?