Million Dollar Movie - video transcript
Wake In Fright
a kangaroo hunt (a slaughter)
slits
absolute mayhem at the bar
on the porch
ends with Donald Pleasance and the main character fucking
when they wake
covered in flies
Pleasance:
punctuates words with widened eyes
or a shift of his feet
swats a fly on his cheek
Silent Running
Bruce Dern
Jones recommended
perhaps for the overbearing 70’s ballad soundtrack
3 am
The Face of Another
teeth woke me up
prosthesis floats in water
Alka-Seltzer
black, white and gray
protagonist,
tells about the accident that disfigured him
x-ray shot looks inside his skull
(how the fuck was that done?)
isolation,
across the board
gets his new face
losses his sense of self
At the doctor’s office, seaweed crosses open door
quietly
gently
murders doctor, then touches his face
making sure that everything is in tact
popped the last Vicoden and watched
Branded to Kill
tooth aching like mad
the protagonist’s obsession with the smell of steaming rice
white christmas tree up
fear of dying
now forty
Elysium
not much to say
ate a hamburger steak
Red Desert
Antonioni
Monic Vitti
so fucking
alluring
and neurotic
and
National Lampoon’s Vacation
Griswalds
no title
Austrian
stoic but sweet
apple pie with a slice of cheese
The Madness of King George
beef stew
dizzy and tired
Another Earth
beef stew
Greta’s birthday
can’t go for obvious reasons
Breaking the Waves
trout
black eyed peas
broccoli
Easy Rider
lunch
soft food
shoulder exercises
warm cloth on the groin
meeting Greta at bar later
no sleep
bodies too close together
wakened by an aching shoulder
and dreams where I’ve lost my grip
my power
The Conversation
Masculin Feminine
Taxi Driver
Day of the Dead
The Lonedale Operator
at mom’s
creamed tuna on toast
the first close up ever made on film
heroin clutches wrench as if it were gun
Kill Bill Volume One
turkey meatloaf
Nymphomania Volume Two
with Greta
after a fuck
popcorn
Laura
The Master
Drive
Clean Shaven
couldn’t sleep
Pieces
ultraviolent - dubbed
Wavelength
Michael Snow
44 minute zoom
in
The End of Violence
Wim Wenders
hot tea with vodka
animal crackers
credits roll
I imagine Greta’s husband snoring
drowning in Ambien.
Blow Up
the confines of resolution
straining beyond the grain
Enigma
1982
chicken broth
sick
Venus in Fur
sick
Day for Night
sick
Five Fingers
sick
Electra Glide in Blue
superior
Nomads
Adam Ant haunts Pierce Brosnen
gnocci
folding clothes
The Prowler
Joseph Losey
Calico Ghost Town
was there once
black and white nitrate
doesn’t match my memory of the place
Sex Lies and Videotape
on the couch
at sunrise
All The President’s Men
near daylight
The Last Detail
not yet dark
note to self:
watch every movie that was released in birth year
There will be answers.
The Exorcist
Don’t Look Now
Magnum Force
The Sting
Mean Streets
The Outfit
The Iceman Cometh -
Walking Tall -
Beyond Atlantis -
Badlands.
The Holy Mountain
American Graffitti
Sleeper
Bust Out -
The Crazies
Enter the Dragon
High Plains Drifter
in
The Day of the Jackal
to
Extreme Close Up
on
Paper Moon
and
Papillon
Soylent Green
Live and Let Die -
Bruce Lee and I
Running Wild -
Naughty Wives
Raw Meat -
Blackenstein
Peeping Toms -
Fly Me
Lovers are Wet -
Cannibal Girls
Battle of the Amazons
Please Don’t Eat My Mother
Westworld
Salty
give in
2,861 movies released in 1973
At one a day,
will take 7.8 years
The Howling Five
A Touch of Sin
Despair
green beans
bread
butter
Amarcord
Fellini
means, “I remember.”
nursing the jaw
waiting for potato soup
I miss old TV
the Million Dollar Movie
same movie, twice a night
Like me, my father could not sleep.
This is how he discovered Karen Black
squatting in her bathroom with piranha teeth,
waiting for a boyfriend to come home, needling the floor with a kitchen knife too big for her hand.
told me all about it
with love
and with so much detail that his fear was mine
awake
Burt Reynolds