+ I wrote and emailed my impression of The Brown Bunny for John and Monica.

Hmmn. The Brown Bunny is definitely cool. Vince Gallo is very obviously a hip
photographer>>cinematographer, and inspired. The movie is tragic, with enough distance from the
experience that one can appreciate tragedy as an art. The meaning is on
the surface quite clear, but it has a few layers of subtext. Visually it’s cool, kinda slick in a
Vice magazine photos-of-the-roadtrip-we-did kinda way. –there’s a lot of driving, which in the
context of the movie makes total sense..but some people might have been squirming through that,
in spite of how cool it looked.

I’d give it a 9.2 for style, 9 for story, the pacing perhaps an 8 (even if it made sense for the
movie, personally I have to admit I was a little challenged).

Would I recommend this one. Yes, if you see more than two movies in a month. No, if you only go to one
movie a month. If you do go, it’s a movie that you probably won’t forget.

-it was to my mind superior to “What The Bleep Do We Know” [metafilter link via Ariadna].

+ There’s a BIG BLACK HOLE out there. Bigger than my brain can handle. How can a hole be ‘ a billion times more massive than our sun.’? [The Register link via David]