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Interstate 60: Episodes of the Road (2002)
Surrealism for Average People
In 1985, I saw a movie that depressed me, for I feared I'd seen the best film in my lifetime, and might never see a better one before I die. The movie was "Back to the Future." Its creator, Bob Gale, has done it to me again, but I'm not depressed this time. Interstate 60 never saw distribution, which makes seeing it at a film festival, meeting Bob Gale and Christopher Lloyd, and owning the DVD all the more precious. Buy it. Watch it. It's surrealism that average people can understand, and laugh their asses off at.
Blazing Saddles (1974)
The finest film ever made
Maroon me on a deserted island with a knife, a piece of string, and a way to watch this movie every day. Come get me in ten years. I'll be tanned, healthy, and STILL laughing my ass off at Mel Brooks' "Blazing Saddles."
Any politically correct bozo who pans this film must have gotten the short end of the stick when he traded in his sense of humor at the pawn shop.
Surface Calm (2001)
Trying hard to get a grip
The groundwork is laid perfectly when Leah Loftin flinches as her photo is snapped in the opening scene, and from there she skillfully drags us through the pool of anxiety that her everyday life has become. With a minimal use of cast, actors, and props, the filmmakers have successfully depicted one woman's breakdown and her attempts to cope, and her too-busy husband's "day late, dollar short" effort to deal with it.
I noticed Leah has a part in "Monster's Ball"; I look forward seeing more from this talented actress in the future.