Gemko's sense of Snow (Patreon)

(Some of you will get that. Everyone else, you're not missing anything.)

Johnnie To's Throw Down finally made it to heads-up this week and got trounced by a legendary avant-garde...well, it's either a very long short or a very short feature, depending upon one's preferred definitions. I've always gone with the latter. Anyway, 61% of the vote went to first-time request Wavelength, the single greatest film ever made in the opinion of at least one person reading this (though that's not the person who requested it). I saw it at NYU in 1995 and found it nigh-well unbearable, though my experience with non-narrative cinema at that point was practically nil. And it was at least much shorter that Snow's La Region centrale, which I likewise couldn't stand. Has my taste expanded sufficiently over the past 28 years for a dramatic reversal? We'll soon find out. It's on YouTube at the moment, though I can't imagine that it would "work" seen that way and will be availing myself of another option, arrrrr. 

(Smile review's coming soon. Just watched it last night, as it took longer than I expected to get my hands on. My favorite Ritchie joint to date.)