Rob Christopher's Blog, page 52

3 things about David Gordon Green’s PINEAPPLE EXPRESS

Pineapple Express [2008]

1. “Today is his birthday and it is a tradition that on his birthday, I get up extra early and make him his favorite kind of dessert.”
“Don’t worry, bro. Your cat’s going to heaven.”
2. Empty bottles of wine cooler on the lid of the toilet.
3. Heart necklace with three pieces.

3 other things.

3 things about Bob Rafelson’s HEAD

Head [1968]

1. Nobody ever lends money to a man with a sense of humor.
2. Cameos by Jack Nicholson and Dennis Hopper.
3. “Atta boy, Mike, atta boy.”

3 things about Steve McQueen’s WIDOWS

Widows [2018]

1. Flask in the kitchen.
2. “You need to watch how you speak to me.”
3. Listening to a Spanish language lesson tape in the car.

3 other things.

3 things about Jon Jost’s TOURISTS

Tourists [2022]

1. The baby started choking.
2. Lish’s party and a character named Gordon.
3. Disappearing behind a shrub: a woman, a minivan.

3 things about Daisy von Scherler Mayer’s PARTY GIRL

Party Girl [1995]

1. “He-he-hello!”
2. Club kids waiting in line for falafel.
3. “How’s your upper torso?”

3 other things.

3 things about Robert Altman’s A WEDDING

A Wedding [1978]

1. Instructions on how to cut the cake.
2. “You’ve got ash on your front.”
3. Helping the bishop up the stairs, slowly.

3 other things.

3 things about John Frankenheimer’s 52 PICK-UP

52 Pick-up [1986]

1. “You listen to me a minute. When a man pulls shit on me, he’s either very brave or very stoned. Which are you?”
2. She freezes as the needle goes in, then throws up. He says, “That’s okay, that happens.”
3. Feline Alert System.

3 things about Noah Baumbach’s WHITE NOISE

White Noise [2022]

1. Hitler/Elvis fugue.
2. Busby Berkeley garbage.
3. The generic aisle.

3 things about Tony Richardson’s THE ENTERTAINER

The Entertainer [1960]

1. His swan song is a show entitled “Put Me Amongst the Girls.”
2. “Cheer up love, life isn’t as bad as all that, and even if it is, there’s nothing we can do about it.”
3. The curtain is raised before the audience has even finished leaving the theatre.

3 things about Eva Vitija’s LOVING HIGHSMITH

Loving Highsmith [2022]

1. The decision by the filmmaker to neglect mentioning Edith’s Diary mystifies me.
2. Highsmith presenting an award to Gena Rowlands at the Berlin Film Festival.
3. Moving into a house that she knows will be her last.