Jameson Draper

1 week ago | letterboxd.com | Jameson Draper |Kelly Reichardt

★★★★ "Sorrow is nothing but worn-out joy."Kelly Reichardt is great, full-stop.

2 months ago | letterboxd.com | Jameson Draper

MICKEY 17 is a heavy-handed and superficial take on fascism and the soulless dystopia it creates. What made Bong Joon-ho's PARASITE so great is both the profundity with which it meditates upon the class struggle and the heartbreaking reveal at the end; it's not an innovative take on world politics but a raw, slice-of-life display that humanizes the struggle.

2 months ago | letterboxd.com | Jameson Draper

The best-looking movie I've ever seen, in terms of pure beauty, is either Terrence Malick's DAYS OF HEAVEN or Sergei Parajanov's THE COLOR OF POMEGRANATES. BARRY LYNDON is probably the third, and what makes it so special is its compositions and lighting. The allure of English and German 18th century royal architecture draped in green fields and still ponds is very nice, but what really sets this apart is how Kubrick presents it. His attention to detail is— infamously— second to none.

2 months ago | letterboxd.com | Jameson Draper

★★★★★ Arguably the quintessential western, it's interesting how negative John Ford's take on the frontier is. THE SEARCHERS is a dark tale of antihero versus antihero, the wasteland that is the west and the false dream of Manifest Destiny. Even the 'good' characters are flawed to the point of evil; it's impossible to tell the story of the dreams these frontier families chased with a clean slate. They usually came from sinister pasts and their hatefulness and thirst for blood and vengeance...

2 months ago | letterboxd.com | Jameson Draper

★★★★★ “Some of the best nights of my life were being high in parking lots.” The texture of this film is a full spectrum cyber dreamscape of the halcyon days, seen through the attention deficit eye of late-era millennials downtrodden and immersed in a hyper specific cultural moment that few artists have been able to accurately portray. It takes place in 2009 but reminds me of 2013ish— my high school days— when modern tech was hitting its inflection point, the Wild West times of social media...