RIP TRAIN: Diane Keaton (1946-2025) - HEAVEN (1987)
RIP Diane Keaton! I don't believe in such things, but you are in heaven anyway. "I'm not afraid to die." That makes one of us.... Also: "You can spend a year communicating with a tree and never be bored." .... If one has seen The Atomic Cafe, one can probably put two together that director Keaton had it in her head to recreate the kind of rapid-fire archive-footage-palooza that that film had, and naturally the extension from nuclear propaganda is so much that is also out there from religious televangelists and some movies about death and the afterlife. There really is a remarkable amount of moments in media that show devastation and destruction, from buildings falling to people being strangled in old horror movies to explosions anr everything in between, and if there is a major difference from that film it is that the collision of clips and sound and music creates a truly dream-like sense of the world through media (or as Annie Hall would hear on a line at a...