Feat. The Music of Journey, John Barry, and Bernard Hermann (In a very special EFC Music Video!)
“Here’s looking at you, kid.”
Continue reading “EFC Presents: A Bad Romance”
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Category: Psychological Thrillers
Greatest Performance Ever?
Gaga’s 2017 Super Bowl performance sent shockwaves far out into the universe. Somewhere deep in the Milky Way Galaxy the ripples found their mark and turned around. I am just now feeling their aftershock. Continue reading “Greatest Performance Ever?”
EFC 3.03: Thoroughbreds
Feat. The Music of MGMT
“I’ve gotten so good at watching people’s emotions that I forget I don’t even have them.”
*SPOILER FREE*
In affluent suburban Connecticut, two rich girls, Lily & Amanda, rekindle their childhood friendship, by plotting the murder of Lily’s intolerable stepdad. Continue reading “EFC 3.03: Thoroughbreds”
Empathy Machine
If E.T. asked me what it was like to be human, I’d play him this:
EFC 3.02: Get Out
Feat. The Music of Run The Jewels
“…You’ll be able to see and hear what your body is doing, but your existence will be as a passenger – An audience. You’ll live in The Sunken Place.”
Hypnosis works, boys and girls. Writer/Director, Jordan Peele, proves it with Get Out (2017), the horrifying dark comedy that is, for me, the film experience of 2017. Continue reading “EFC 3.02: Get Out”
EFC 3.01: Annihilation
Feat. The Music of Air
“Some questions will ruin you if you are denied the answer long enough.” – Jeff VanderMeer
Synopsis: A soldier/biologist (Natalie Portman) enters a supernatural zone called, “The Shimmer,” where her husband, (Oscar Issac) and his military team went missing a year prior. Continue reading “EFC 3.01: Annihilation”
The World is Not Enough (1999)
Feat. The Music of David Arnold performed by Garbage
A few quotes… And a little psychology.
Remember, 007, shadows stay in front or behind, but never on top. Continue reading “The World is Not Enough (1999)”
EFC 2.08 – It
Feat. The Music of Queens of The Stone Age
“You’ll float too.”
Help! Somebody save these kids! Where are the police? Continue reading “EFC 2.08 – It”
About
Feat. The Music of Olivia Newton-John
Welcome to Experience Film! A visceral, psychological perspective on modern cinema! Let me tell you how this whole thing works.
About once per month i’ll induct a new film into what i’ll call The Experience Films Collection.”EFC” for short. Here I’ll commemorate the chosen film by psychoanalyzing the lead characters and tenderly depicting the outrageous fortunes that encumber them. Continue reading “About”
EFC Classics – Lost Highway (1997)
Feat. The Music of Lou Reed
“I like to remember things my own way… Not necessarily the way they happened.”
I was halfway through my 2nd viewing of David Lynch’s Lost Highway (1997). It must have been daytime, for a narrow ray of sunlight shone through the barricaded window of my apartment living room, which now resembled Plato’s cave. I was a prisoner in this artificial nocturne of my own device. My only knowledge of the outside world came via the shadowy figures on the television screen in front of me. Continue reading “EFC Classics – Lost Highway (1997)”
