Didn't get a photo because photos taken at or right before the moment of battery draining are not taken at all, how's that for techno-metaphysics, but Lav Diaz is a soft-spoken king (as most Filipino luminaries are) and Gael Garcia Bernal is pure golden retriever actor energy.

Feel like I’m not taking advantage of 90’s nostalgia more. Man, I was there.

Um… d’accord.

What do you mean I watched AUGUST UNDERGROUND, the stripped down 2001 predecessor, and not AUGUST UNDERGROUND’S MORDUM, the more famous 2003 restating of its themes?

I judged Charlie Hunnam’s performance in REBEL MOON by the fact I got angry there was a line that he fumbled so much that the subtitles couldn’t even get it right.

I won’t vouch for the total success of it (the direct address is very YA, exceeding “on the nose”), but the internal coherency of its ideas and emotional world in themselves (save from story) are rock solid in rewatch of I SAW THE TV GLOW.

My unedited review of ANORA:

Unfortunately, Tobe Hooper was probably taken by James Wan, enough to be influenced by him (watch both videos):