an eclectic collection of thoughts on film
by Jack Davis
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Todd Haynes’ May December
By Jack Davis Originally published Dec. 8, 2023 in The Drexel Triangle In the 1990’s, a schoolteacher named Mary Kay Letourneau had an affair with a seventh grader (twelve-year-old) she had previously taught. She had his first child in jail, and the two later started a family. This is the jumping off point of Todd…
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Robert Altman’s The Long Goodbye and Paul Thomas Anderson’s Inherent Vice Taught Me That Some Good Movies Meander: Part Two
By Jack Davis To all my readers from last week, great to see you again. To all my new ones, where the heck have you been? Last week, I introduced the first half of my blog series on meandering movies, talking about what makes a postmodern film, how that applies to thrillers, and one of…
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Robert Altman’s The Long Goodbye and Paul Thomas Anderson’s Inherent Vice Taught Me That Some Good Movies Meander: Part One
By Jack Davis In the first of two parts on my Meandering Movies blog series, I’ll speak on personal discoveries I made as a writer from watching some modern mysteries and dissecting what I first thought were unnecessary details. On paper, The Long Goodbye and Inherent Vice are both mystery movies. But when I think…
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