That was Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange. However, that journey from being a young child watching a pre-movie cartoon alongside a parent to bingeing a director’s entire filmography deep into the wee hours of the night follows a basic developmental path: hundreds of treks up and down sticky, popcorn-speckled aisles (often alone) thousands of late-night rentals (also often alone) and a growing, insuppressible urge to tell others about what you’ve seen (it helps if you’re not alone - or at least have a pet).īut there’s one more moment that I think all film lovers share: the very first time we watch a movie and come away thinking, “Oh, so that’s FILM” or “I didn’t know a movie could do that.” I can rattle off dozens of movies that have, to borrow a phrase, shifted the cargo in my haul - from a courtroom drama like 12 Angry Men to a coming-of-age plunge like The Graduate to a perfectly paced thriller like Jaws - but one came before them. Nobody’s born an arts writer, film critic, or movie buff. The time, we explore the work of one of cinema’s true great auteurs. It’s exact science by way of a few beers. Welcome to Dissected, where we disassemble a band’s catalog, a director’s filmography, or some other critical pop-culture collection in the abstract.
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