Snobbin: Beautiful Trash in the Pop Culture Gutter

A journey through the history of film, narrative, and genre through connections between Lynch's filmography and Victor Fleming's The Wizard of Oz (1939) . Sometimes academic and historical (Amy Nicholson, Karyn Kusama, and many of the six chapters) and other times humorous and self-referential (John Waters), the documentary has something for film fans, Lynch obsessives, and everyone in between.

I am going to start a new series on Yasujiro Ozu's films in the upcoming weeks where I rank and write capsule reviews for fifteen of his films. I have started watching a representative portion of his filmography, ranging from the silent comedies to his later works that deal with family, marriage, and society in the post war years, including the Noriko trilogy ( Late Spring , Early Summer , and Tokyo Story ) and all the movies he made with the incomparable Setsuko Hara. So far this project has been fun, and I cannot wait to share the results. Prepare for a discussion surrounding culture, dialogue, and the ever-present tatami shots. 

I just watched all of the Coen Brothers movies on which they collaborated. Almost all of their films are good, and rating them was harder than I expected. I hope to eventually get around to their newer projects and those they scripted. A few of the later films could move up with additional viewings. 18. The Ladykillers  17. Intolerable Cruelty  16. Burn After Reading  15. The Ballad of Buster Scruggs  14. The Man Who Wasn't There 13. The Hudsucker Proxy 12. A Serious Man 11. Hail, Caesar! 10. Inside Llewyn Davis 9. O Brother, Where Art Thou? 8. True Grit 7. No Country for Old Men 6. Raising Arizona 5. Barton Fink 4. Blood Simple 3. The Big Lebowski 2. Fargo 1. Miller's Crossing