Evan “Raymond Gun-Virus” Pincus

Evan “Raymond Gun-Virus” Pincus

Favorite films

  • Ray Gun Virus
  • Doomed Love
  • Extraordinary Stories
  • La Région Centrale

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  • A Bigger Splash

    ★★★½

  • Magellan

    ★★★★

  • Being John Smith

    ★★★★

  • Throbs

    ★★★★

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A Bigger Splash
★★★½ Liked Watched

BLAND AND MANIACAL

A few weeks ago on the Miles Davis centennial me and Austin were talking about how there are some artists, like Davis, where having conversations about whether they’re over or under-rated simply doesn’t make any sense. IDK if I’d ever call myself a big David Hockney fan in particular, but growing up in LA (living in a house with a pool, no less), he’s always been part of the air, part of the light here. RIP! No clue how or why this movie exists but I’m thrilled it does, a bizarre, modest little portrait of a moment in life and art.

Magellan
★★★★ Liked Watched

A few months ago when our book club first started reading Moby-Dick, my friend Rosalind and I were talking about how much of that book trickles into… well, ok, every single novel written afterwards, but she specifically mentioned Blood Meridian, which is very true - even in just the broadest strokes, so much of the strangeness and wide range of McCarthy’s encyclopedic interests in that book, the way they’re used to scaffold a straightforwardly thrilling genre-ic structure with seemingly limitless…

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Punch-Drunk Love
Watched

Sure, right, Barry's autism is the result of the childhood trauma of emasculation stemming from when women called him gay, and only by affirming his heterosexuality by entering a relationship can he truly find happiness and the strength to perform traditional masculine acts such as inflicting violence on those who threaten your gal, of course, makes sense. Very cool, Paul, thanks for sharing! Looking past that, what do we have- an overly twee, overbearingly scored and shot romcom with barely…

The Devil and Daniel Johnston
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Daniel Johnston was not a misunderstood genius.

This documentary proves that he was, in fact, a very well-understood one, surrounded by people who saw his (frankly, practically peerless) talent and alternately strived to get him the help he needed and actively enabled his darkest periods. The Devil and Daniel Johnston is in a precarious position as a profile of perhaps the best-known so-called “outsider musician,” perfectly poised to deflate the idiot-savant notions behind that dangerously ableist and classist category, with…