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Probably the last feature I watched the other night. It's on Letterboxd. Devon Green just finished it and it cost 800 dollars. He premiered it at Whammy Analog (a great place) and I admit to having a small role. I am watching Hollywood die (and I don't mind) and hope movies like this flourish.
https://letterboxd.com/robertdayton/film/mid-evil-times/https://letterboxd.com/robertdayton/film/mid-evil-times/
Jul 14, 2025
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the unflinching type of depravity you expect to see in 480p on effedupmovies.com, not in a chain theatre, yet made me want to be much kinder to myself
watch if you like: cronenberg, troma, having physical reactions to art, being a gorgeous woman in a tiny glittery dress
i also recommend fargeatâs other film revenge (2017) which is similarly gnarly.. one thing i love about her style is when her brain cooks up something uniquely gruesome she wants her audience to see every bit of it, not a single cut away in either movie
watch if you like: cronenberg, troma, having physical reactions to art, being a gorgeous woman in a tiny glittery dress
i also recommend fargeatâs other film revenge (2017) which is similarly gnarly.. one thing i love about her style is when her brain cooks up something uniquely gruesome she wants her audience to see every bit of it, not a single cut away in either movie
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And thereâs some sort of parameters to my thoughts here, but I canât quite place emâlike psychosocially or maybe even metaphysicallyâreally⌠but I mean, like, I didnât include Funny Games or Salò or Come and See. Thereâs a reason for that, but I donât really know what that reason is⌠đ¤ˇđťââď¸
Jun 16, 2025
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Only half way through and have maybe conflicted feelings about this film, which tracks an industrialist familys various foibles and debaucheries in the early years of the third reich
But If youâre going to watch a film that takes this approach to the subjectâ focusing on politics and morality, aristocratic degeneration, the particular place of family drama in historyâ I think itâs a pretty good one. Thereâs a sort of tragic Shakespearean valence to it all
Good âeuropean art house film about fucked up rich peopleâ movie
But If youâre going to watch a film that takes this approach to the subjectâ focusing on politics and morality, aristocratic degeneration, the particular place of family drama in historyâ I think itâs a pretty good one. Thereâs a sort of tragic Shakespearean valence to it all
Good âeuropean art house film about fucked up rich peopleâ movie
Jan 13, 2024
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đľI just joined a few days ago as my friend Chloe recommended it (she also wants a mug). I find it neat like early Tumblr -or MySpace which I loved until it stopped loading and felt forced to join the cold and creepy Facebook which kept on getting creepier and creepier and then made Instagram creepy too. I have been finding the internet really nasty lately what with AI, Twitter, Spotify, and all these techie supervillains running about. This does feel nicer.
Jul 9, 2025
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Hi, self promo time! "Cold Glitter" is my new book from Feral House. It has lots of wild stories and fabulousness on a dime so no, you definitely do not have to be Canadian or a Glam head to enjoy it. Over 400 pages of PIZZAZZAMATAZZ and ten years in the making. Get it from Feral House or ask for it at your favourite shop or library.
"Dayton's deep plunge into the crystalline depths of Canadian Glam is a strange swim indeed, something only an author this obsessive could provide -- a mirror ball's worth of wild reflections on an ice-cracked world long gone. No need to know anything beforehand about Canada or its music to be thoroughly dazzled by this scintillant dip! C'mon, shoot the boots!"
Guy Maddin, director of Rumours (2024), My Winnipeg (2007), and The Saddest Music in the World (2003) among many.
âThe always-entertaining Robert Dayton details a mysterious, undocumented scene that was hiding in plain sight up North. Written with the enthusiasm of a renegade entomologist who just uncovered a rare, precious, and peculiar bee, the book is loaded with colorful characters and alternate-universe tales.â
Gregg Turkington, actor, writer, and comedian best known for his character, Neil Hamburger.
"Cold Glitter is a province-by-province walking tour of the soft sequined underbelly I never knew I had, as a so-called Canadian. It is enlightening and hilarious and in the end inspiring. Cold Glitter creates a home for the perverse and the ecstatic, in a nation vehemently down on both.â Dan Bejar, musician (DestroyerCold Glitter is a province-by-province walking tour of the soft sequined underbelly I never knew I had, as a so-called Canadian. It is enlightening and hilarious and in the end inspiring. Cold Glitter creates a home for the perverse and the ecstatic, in a nation vehemently down on both.â Dan Bejar, musician (Destroyer
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Be sure to enjoy their hairy, sexy version of Good Vibrations in the middle somewhere...
Jul 8, 2025