Alan Palomo

“Is Alex Cox's Sid Nancy this one's incredible and of course like you know Alex must have been a punk you know you watch Repo Man you see his influences throughout his career so this is my first one...”

“My second is gonna be this one here Maîtresse which I think is a really incredible film by Barbet Schroeder. The best way to describe this film is kind of like what happens when an unstoppable force meets an immovable object like you have this dominatrix that through some bizarre home invasion situation starts dating this giant ogre of a man and it just sort of becomes about despite the fact that he has this physical prowess that she has a psychological prowess.”

“I mean you've got me stuck between whether I want the DVD version or the Blu-ray version of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas because this I think was the first Criterion DVD that I got in high school and I remember because it has the little removable outer part of it which I thought was just an incredible way to kind of showcase Ralph Steadman's work without putting the print directly just over it but you know what I'll pick the Blu-ray you might as well live in the 2020s and embrace the formats.”

“All right my next pick is going to be Medium Cool because I haven't seen it but I love Robert Forster. He was often overlooked it always felt like he was in a lot of B movies. Obviously you know Tarantino gave his career another surge with Jackie Brown but I've always seen clips of this and it looks pretty incredible so let's check it out.”

“My next film is David Byrne's True Stories. I grew up in Texas. True story there's very few films that really capture kind of the banality and the beauty of rural Texas especially in that time frame. It kind of strikes that same chord as something like when you watch King of the Hill and you're like well you kind of got to be there gotta be from there to get the joke and this film really does a phenomenal job of that.”

“Talk about a music movie, this is an all-time favorite, Jarmusch's Mystery Train. I don't know I have a strange connection to this film because I used to live in a college town that had a train that would kind of pass through it in the middle of the night and I was dating somebody at the time that was really obsessed with blues music so that would kind of be nodding off listening to Skip James or something I would just kind of hear that train roaring in the background and I feel like this fil...”

“This is another all-time fave, this is a Felipe Casals film called Canoa: A Shameful Memory and it's interesting because I remember I first saw it in a Mexican horror film programming block and they included this despite the fact that it's not supernatural. It's actually based on a true story basically this town that was controlled by this priest who convinced everybody that these three backpacking students were actually subversives from the city that were there to protest and the three of th...”

“I think my last pick will be Wings of Desire. I remember I saw this movie in high school and my dad had this really beautiful comment about it where we were watching Peter Falk and that scene where he can't see the angel but he's talking to him and he's explaining how like you know it's like oh you don't know what it's like you know you have a nice you have a cup of coffee and you rub your hands for warmth see and you smoke a cigarette and he's like just basically explaining what it's like to...”