Brandon's movie memory

Self-analyzing cinema, Scream without the thrills.

Marie “daughter of Jean-Louis” Trintignant is Betty, a “drunken, self-destructive woman” who wanders into the life of Stéphane Audran.

A guy and his boss are seeing the same girl, then the boss murders the girl, but all evidence points at the guy.

Extreme amount of leveling-up here.

A few groups of ultimate badass killer burglars get into death feuds with each other because nobody can act professional for just a few seconds at a time.

Movie opens with Ho Lik-Wong going to prison, chest full of bullets, getting on everyone’s bad side… that’s right, according to my version’s perverted subtitles, the lead guy in Riki-oh: The Story of Ricky is not even named Ricky.

Let’s Make Love and Listen to Death from Above (2022, Ayanna Dozier) Warholian: a couple making out is only seen from the knees down, then the camera gradually moves up, but I guess the viewer has to provide their own Death From Above since my copy was si…

The Odyssey from the Trojans’ POV.

First the Spielberg and now this: the summer movies love to reference The Rehearsal.

Tense music cranks up as pretty, vacant young Simon (Almeyer, also in Oliveira’s La Lettre) realizes everyone is keeping secrets from him.