Spitball Army

watched Nov 06, 2017, spitballarmy’s review published on Letterboxd: 7.4 [blu-ray, Netflix] I found quite a lot to like in this film: the sparse hill country setting; the long stretches of quiet; the time jumps; the aging color inside the Instamatic framing; and, yes, the white-sheet device. And, as insufferable as Will Oldham is, and his […]

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watched Nov 06, 2017 spitballarmy’s review published on Letterboxd: 6.0 [blu-ray, Netflix] Witty and inventive in that indie film hey-look-at-this-clever-idea-I-had-let’s-turn-it-into-a-movie way. I couldn’t stop comparing it to BEING JOHN MALKOVICH while I was watching. https://boxd.it/lrLpP

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watched Nov 06, 2017 spitballarmy’s review published on Letterboxd: 7.5 [streaming, Netflix] This is the cinematic equivalent of one of those “A Day in the Life of America” books, where photographers set up at various locales and document a discrete 24-hour period through pictures. Except… This is a video document of about a dozen “average” people […]

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