Eli Hayes Memoriam

Favorite films

  • Mommy
  • Run/On
  • Capone
  • Lions in the Corner

All
  • Parental Leave

    ★★★★½

  • Deadlock

    ★★★★

  • Relaxing Old Footage With Joe Pera

    ★★★★½

  • Driveways

    ★★★½

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A Florida Melancholy

2019

Liked 79

Edit: I finally released my baby into the world. I figured, now that I'm reaching the tail end of the third film in the trilogy, it's time to release the first, A Florida Melancholy. I don't charge money for/sell my films, and I self-distribute them, so it can be viewed on both my Vimeo and my Youtube channel for free.

I don't have too much to say about the piece, other than what reads in the video description; I'd rather…

Marriage Story

2019

★★★★★ Liked 49

It will mystify me, ‘till the very end, how certain pieces of art can reach people at such specifically significant times, as if spun down from the sky manually, and at a predetermined moment, by the threads of fate. How much hyperbole can one man use? Except, sadly — deeply, deeply unfortunately — these words may be the least hyperbolic I ever type. I mean every word of this diary entry with the utmost earnestness.

It took each last ounce…

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Johnny Corncob

1973

★★★★½ Liked 226

I had been waiting to see this for half a decade,
straight up, and it definitely did not disappoint.

Capone

2020

★★★★½ Liked 14

Clinical experimentation, which is what I should have expected from Trank — a filmmaker clearly not being given enough credit — at this point, but it caught me off guard nonetheless. The comparisons to Gotti (of which this is essentially an opposite), et cetera, simply had me prepared for an entirely different, and altogether much more by-the-books experience. I was not expecting a bizarro, fractured, absurd, genuinely terrifying, purposefully off-putting and deeply, deeply sad study of a haunted psyche.

Capone

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Heathers

1989

★★★★½ Liked 5

"I LOVE MY DEAD, GAY SON!"

Mommy

2014

★★★★★ Liked 17

"Born to Die," like...
born to Die,
like Die, the character.
he was born to her;
he is her son. 
get it? get it!?

(this is me deflecting my pain)