Ryan Saunders

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Favorite films

  • Two-Lane Blacktop
  • RR
  • Cemetery Man
  • A Brighter Summer Day

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  • The Cannibals

  • Millennium Actress

    ★★★½

  • Foolish Wives

    ★★★★½

  • Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen

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McCabe & Mrs. Miller
★★★★★ Rewatched

Such a treat to bring this print to Seattle, felt like I was staring directly into the eyes of God (after he took a hit of the opium pipe).

Thank you to all who attended the Pacific Northwestern film series! Until next time 😎

Shoutout to the Chicago Film Society for loaning us the print.

The Bridges of Madison County
★★★★★ Liked Rewatched

“Whatever it is that makes an artist look like an artist to the world is just a feature I don’t have.”

“Maybe you have to convince yourself first.”

“When I think of why I make pictures, the reason that I can come up with just seems that I've been making my way here.”

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Lumumba: Death of a Prophet
★★★½ Watched

::shows British newsreel footage mocking Lumumba’s arrest::

Peck: “The British Movietone News asked $3,000 a minute for this footage. One gets used to it. Everything passes, the images remain. A Congolese earns $150 a year. Memories of a murder are expensive.”

Exterminate All the Brutes
Liked Watched

Chaotic? Maybe. Disorganized? No.

Having had the chance to read Lindqvist and Dunbar-Ortiz’s books beforehand, I was surprised to notice how Peck reads directly from the texts for at least 50% narration (hence the “A film by/With” credit). But with the film, Peck radically reorganizes the information, causing some unique collisions along the way. Scout Tafoya perceptively calls this Pecks “Histoire(s) du Cinema,”  and it’s true: the arrangement is very personal and passionate, resembling a matrix of thought more so than…