Charlie Wilcox

Charlie Wilcox Pro

Fabric Animator
Curator/Programmer of The From Below Microcinema

Favorite films

  • Atman
  • Bulworth
  • Tom Waits: Big Time
  • Red & Rosy

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  • Adjustment & Work

    ★★★★

  • The Fan

    ★★★½

  • GALAXIES

    ★★★★

  • Door III

    ★★★★

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Adjustment & Work
★★★★ Watched

Initially, I was feeling like Adjustment & Work was slightly too dependent on the two films that came before it, too much a variation on the sequences and conceptual elements in Blind and Deaf. The change in tone began to work on me, though; the Jason’s Walk sequence in Blind along with many other classroom sections have the joy of discovery associated with any form of education, not just education for the blind or Deaf. That is replaced here more by a grim determinism,…

The Fan
★★★½ Watched

You used to be able to put Rolling Stones songs in a movie!

Tony Scott doing his particularly vascular version of Scorsese’s “Robert De Niro is a bit unstable” movies. Ultimately signifies far less than Taxi Driver or The King of Comedy, but boy oh boy does the cocaine seep through the screen here.

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I Love You, I Don't
★★★★★ Liked Watched

Serge Gainsbourg makes a movie about how gay he is... for his girlfriend's ass?

Either a waylaid queer classic or an astounding act of (French) machismo homophobia... whichever way you cut it, I was completely drawn into the apocalyptic vision conjured up here.

Flaming Creatures
Liked Rewatched

Remains a somewhat undefinable experience with the relative clarity of 16mm projection, but I have a take brewing about the ways in which the most prevalent way to watch Flaming Creatures, via a heavily pixelated 240p-ass rip on Ubuweb and/or YouTube, while valuable, create a post-facto censorship that curbs the confrontational elements of Jack Smith’s perfectly imperfect film. You can’t even see the limp dicks on there!

This deserves to be seen on film, in a room full of 7…