I never understood the adoration for Anthony Bourdain. I watched a few episodes of his "reality" series, but never understood the attraction. And I used to watch a lot of Food Network because I like to cook. That said, since I live in the same city you do, I'll have to wait for it to "expand outward" from NYC or LA.
And I also couldn't agree more with your take on slasher movies. They never make sense because you can't really describe exactly what either Jason or Michael ARE. Although, in the original he wasn't real, but an memory of his mother who was the actual killer. What I never understood was how she could get in the situations needed to actually kill the camp counselors. Regardless, the fact that neither one can be accurately categorized stands.
My read on the Counting Crows sequence in 'Camp Miasma' was that, by that point at the film-within-the-film, what we were seeing was Einbinder's character's vision of what her remake might become as opposed to the original version seen in the clips earlier. (Also, the massive amounts of weed the two central characters are smoking.) Two of Schonbrun's three films have been about how subjective an experience watching something is (and 'We're All Going to the World's Fair' is, IMHO, kind of about the opposite of that), which is where I'm getting this from.
Plus: I am never not going to be happy to see Zach Cherry on screen, and him being the guy in the horror film who delivers exposition is a great bit of casting.
I think there’s an argument to be made that the film’s most effective stance is “weed will induce a psychotic break.” This is an unintentional argument, I grant. But it’s definitely there.
I never understood the adoration for Anthony Bourdain. I watched a few episodes of his "reality" series, but never understood the attraction. And I used to watch a lot of Food Network because I like to cook. That said, since I live in the same city you do, I'll have to wait for it to "expand outward" from NYC or LA.
And I also couldn't agree more with your take on slasher movies. They never make sense because you can't really describe exactly what either Jason or Michael ARE. Although, in the original he wasn't real, but an memory of his mother who was the actual killer. What I never understood was how she could get in the situations needed to actually kill the camp counselors. Regardless, the fact that neither one can be accurately categorized stands.
....I really need to see Tuner.
My read on the Counting Crows sequence in 'Camp Miasma' was that, by that point at the film-within-the-film, what we were seeing was Einbinder's character's vision of what her remake might become as opposed to the original version seen in the clips earlier. (Also, the massive amounts of weed the two central characters are smoking.) Two of Schonbrun's three films have been about how subjective an experience watching something is (and 'We're All Going to the World's Fair' is, IMHO, kind of about the opposite of that), which is where I'm getting this from.
Plus: I am never not going to be happy to see Zach Cherry on screen, and him being the guy in the horror film who delivers exposition is a great bit of casting.
I think there’s an argument to be made that the film’s most effective stance is “weed will induce a psychotic break.” This is an unintentional argument, I grant. But it’s definitely there.
Tuner was indeed very good