Carmelita Valdez McKoy
@carmelitasays
Dancing with the lost and found...
Tonight's cinematic coupling: Bountied wives and the ardent outlaws who "kidnapped" them.
In tonight's double feature, life is but a dream and eternity only a memory:
Tonight's rewatch: 𝘚𝘶𝘴𝘱𝘪𝘳𝘪𝘢 (1977) I'm back for mood lighting glamour and the aural conjurings of Goblin.
Tonight's absurdist fiction double feature moves stones to build a wall of never ending debt and gets stonewalled on a land survey that never even begins:
This evening's viewing pleasure: Artists' lives rendered in chiaroscuro
Tonight's cinematic adventure: Robbery, sex, and murder are all on the table when rapacious characters hunger for success in the hospitality industry.
This evening I'm revisiting 𝘏𝘪𝘳𝘰𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘮𝘢, 𝘔𝘰𝘯 𝘈𝘮𝘰𝘶𝘳 (1959) "One thinks one knows. But, no. Never."
Cue up The Zombies' 𝘛𝘪𝘮𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘰𝘯 for this Welles Wednesday double feature where Orson plays the rich daddy. If you really want to know, there are issues...
This evening's documentary double feature bears witness to the inner work being done in institutional settings by returning soldiers and incarcerated men:
Pondering tonight's double feature: Would flora, fauna, and Farrah be safer if the saturnine ecologist from 𝘚𝘪𝘭𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘙𝘶𝘯𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 were battling the killer robot in 𝘚𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘯 3?
Tonight's date with Death double feature involves a little chess, a nice turkey dinner, candles, and dancing:
Tonight's film pairing is wading in the murky waters of human motivations:
In the divine fatigue of a Friday, this evening's Hal Hartley double feature is scratching for a small sign of life:
The desperate pursuit of a new lease on life could cost the characters in tonight's double feature their last breath:
Tonight's cinematic adventure: Sing a song of discord and ferocious psychological gamesmanship.
This evening's double feature: Every dog has his day, but the last straw in this tinderbox may burn them all beyond recognition.
Tonight's rewatch: 𝘗𝘳𝘦𝘥𝘢𝘵𝘰𝘳 (1987) At the peak of today's insufferable heat and humidity, I envied Arnold his mud bath. Really and truly, I did.
In tonight's pairing, Mickey Rourke goes from playing a self-styled pope with get rich schemes to a rich kid who became a poor friar and was named a saint:
Sunday, things are looking up: New reading glasses + Reading Aldous Huxley's 𝘌𝘺𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘎𝘢𝘻𝘢
Tonight's double feature is toiling in the desert with one hell of a thirst:
Tonight's cinematic odyssey: Quiffs coiffed and ready to conquer
This evening's double feature: Serenades for the struggling and other fleeting joys.
Tonight's cinematic adventure: Her girl friend's in a coma. I know, I know. It's really serious.
Tonight's rewatch / bedtime story: 𝘖𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘜𝘱𝘰𝘯 𝘢 𝘛𝘪𝘮𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘞𝘦𝘴𝘵 (1968) Never before or since has the harmonica been this intimidating. Even so, Charles Bronson's screen presence is very comforting to me.
The protagonists in this evening's midlife mindfuck double feature hardly recognize themselves anymore:
The characters in tonight's double feature may be aimless, but at least they've got snacks and smokes for the road:
Tonight's cinematic adventure: He ain't heavy, he's my brother.
This evening's double feature: It's always heartening to see folks take more of an interest in books.
Parked in front of the TV and my brain is idling, but I'd like to be on a moonlight drive. Tonight's movie is close enough: