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erikbirdman
Reviews
I Am Trying to Break Your Heart (2002)
yee-hah.
The splattered coverage of Wilco on film made for a entertaining viewing experience.Wilco are clearly a hard working band who make music that matters to them.Whether or not that had anything to do with Jay Bennet's departure is unclear.But,bands have problems.And when it's recorded to film it makes you watch a little closer.The commentary on the DVD was surprisingly funny as well.Let us just see if their next album is as good as their last,considering,all that has happened.
Punch-Drunk Love (2002)
Stealing french neu-wave and calling it an american milestone.
I enjoy good films like anyone else.I even enjoy bad films for their novelty.The film slate I can't enjoy are the grandiose vehicles of self-idolizing art chasers. Directors and films who take n' borrow without respectively giving back the sum of what they've stolen,either in public mentioning or in the actual film deliverance.PDL is of this order.And so is P.T. Anderson. Experienced film goers will know after sitting through this waxed palette of contrived situation,that odd love is best kept to Goddard or any other pioneer of the unlikely love genre. Perhaps if this was a homage,I wouldn't have felt jipped by the bloated content,or angered at the pretentiousness that slowly mulled out of my dvd player. But,since I've seen how our man Paul feels he's delivering premiere art from his one of a kind brilliance,I can do nothing other than cringe at his stilted productions and chuckle at his stupid vanity.