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Thoughts on “The New York Times Best Seller List”. It seems like everyone nowadays is a NY Times Best Seller, and every book is a NY Times Best Seller. I have actually started to avoid any book that is labeled with this pointless achievement. I think part of the reason is that they update the list on a weekly basis, and they have like a ...
- Zen Dog
- A Promising Set-Up
- Waste of A Good Concept
- In Conclusion
Reed (Kyle Gallner) lives a life of routine. Every day he eats his cereal, brushes his teeth, does star jumps on the roof as he looks over San Francisco, commutes to the office of his floundering internet start-up, commutes back, goes to sleep. Even his dreams are the same. It’s a comfortable life, but a boring one. So when his cousin Dwayne (Adam ...
It starts well. That’s one thing you can grant Zen Dog. Darge deftly sets up the tedium of Reed’s existence. He opens with the repeating nightmare (including an odd cameo fromClea Duvall) that always ends with him witnessing a suicide. He establishes the cereal/star jumps/commute routine. There are some lovely visual compositions along the way; Ree...
Zen Dog takes all it has going for it- the high concept, the strong visual identity and humour- and flushes it down the proverbial toilet. The story possibilities of lucid dreaming are the most painful waste. With a film set in a dreamscape, you could do pretty much anything (budget-permitting, of course). It provides a great opportunity to get cre...
For a while, Zen Dogshows a lot of promise, with an interesting concept and some funny lines. It soon disintegrates into a series of indie tropes and inane ‘inspirational’ messages. There’s nothing unique or noteworthy about a movie that blithely tells you to follow your dreams while the hero stands on a mountain with outstretched arms. Anything co...
Aug 25, 2024 · The New York Times Best Sellers are up-to-date and authoritative lists of the most popular books in the United States, based on sales in the past week, including fiction, non-fiction, paperbacks ...
The themes in Zen Dogs are constantly at odds with each other and not a one comes out as the winner. Full Review | Original Score: 4/10 | Jun 22, 2018. Jennie Kermode Eye for Film. There's real ...
Best New Horror Movies ; Zen Dog 2016 1h 35m Drama TRAILER for Zen Dog: Trailer 1 List. Reviews A man embarks on a life-affirming road trip across the country, spurred on by the words of ...
- Rick Darge
- Drama
- Kyle Gallner
Jun 22, 2018 · Zen Dog: Directed by Rick Darge. With Kyle Gallner, Adam Herschman, Celia Diane, Clea DuVall. Trapped by daily routine, a man experiences complete freedom by dreaming himself across the country in a psychedelic Volkswagen with the guiding words of philosopher Alan Watts.
Director Rick Darge formerly worked as a cinematographer and it shows in his confident command of colour and light. The film always looks beautiful, but shifts from cool shades of grey, black and chrome into dazzling hypercolour as Mud slips into the world of his dreams. A graffiti-daubed Volkswagen sums up and symbolises the psychedelic, but ...
