“Beau Is Afraid."

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“Beau Is Afraid” (2023, Amazon Prime) surrealist tragicomedy horror film written, directed, and co-produced by Ari Aster. Weird. weird movie. The first part that mainly took place in an apartment building was fun although silly. Yet from that point, the madness accelerated to an exhausting frenzy.



       Joaquin Phoenix is Beau Wassermann, an extremely confused son of a wealthy widow. Mr Phoenix's performance commitment reminds me of Daniel Day Lewis or Johnny Depp's preference to take in a crazy slew of diverse characters. Joaquin totally threw himself in Beau's insane moondance! (He earned a Golden Globe nomination for the effort.)

       As I inferred, the dadaist showboat was eccentrically fine from the building ruckus and even up to the Nathan Lane/Amy Ryan part (daughter played by Hayley Squires was lovably wackadoodle) but from that point it was all messy abstractions. 

       But I am not saying I wasn't entertained. 🎥💻📽


SAW AGAIN: Clint Eastwood Cowboy. “Pale Rider.” / “Hang ‘Em High.”




“Hang 'Em High” (1968, Tubi) revisionist Western film, stars Clint Eastwood as Jed Cooper, an innocent man who survives a lynching. Mr Eastwood pretty much carries on with his soft-spoken, stoic-faced cowboy as he delivers in his other spaghetti western gigs. This time though he looks cleaner with an ironed shirt and well-shined boots. 🎥💻📽


“Pale Rider” (1985, Tubi) Western film produced and directed by Clint Eastwood, who also stars in the lead role. The title is a reference to the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, as the pale horse's ghost rider (Eastwood) represents Death. The film, which took in over $41 million at the box office, became the highest-grossing Western of the 1980s.



       Plot: In the Old West, outside LaHood, California in Carbon Canyon, mining baron Coy LaHood is waging a war of intimidation against independent prospectors and their families. Enter Mr Eastwood.

This Clint cowboy banger is a lot better than the previous macho rides. With some glimmer of the later Eastwood directorial sensibility. Yes, he directed this one. 🎥💻📽


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