The Top! Few guys made it! On the east coast, it was John Waters, whose diabolical dames and sly sense of humor baffled, bemused, and buoyed Baltimore! From the midwest, there was David Lynch, the boy scout charmer with a taste for transcendental meditation and a brain from another dimension! The west coast belonged to Paul Reubens who'd built his pee-wee-sized playhouse into a prodigious empire! Yes, it seemed as if the field of offbeat '50s-Americana-styled comedies with a darker…

“Jimmie and I spent a year living on a small sailboat. This was in 2008. During that experience, we quit our job, sold all of our stuff, and sailed from Oregon to Baja. Since then, we’ve always felt this push and pull between regular life and the attraction of going off the grid, being free and loose, similar to the Jomar character in the movie. For us, this is an examination of the good and bad things about toeing the…

“Part Citizen Kane pastiche, part failed David Bowie biopic, part vehicle for Ewan MacGregor penis shots, Velvet Goldmine is a fairy-tale about glam rock and all its promises. While the 1998 film preoccupies itself firstly with documenting fictional rock star Brain Slade’s life and times, the truth is the story is so much bigger. 

His follow-up to the 1995 Julianne Moore-starring Safe, director Todd Haynes initially approached Goldmine as a David Bowie biopic. However, as the used bookstore cashier who…

“It’s got a little Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, a little Austin Powers, and a lot of the Rock Hudson-Doris Day led rom-coms of the ‘50s, particularly Lover Come Back and Pillow Talk. The film’s influences are so clear it could be hard to see if it's giving viewers anything new, but Reed offers a homage to the greats of the genre’s past while poking fun at its historical gender politics and upending the status quo. It straddles the difficult line of…