The Annihilation of Fish

an extraordinary film about being mentally ill and falling in love. one of the most empathetic and kind works I’ve seen in my life. many films would laugh at these characters, make a mockery of their grief and their illness, instead Burnett chooses to completely treat their…

Logan Kenny

absurdly lovely... doesn’t take long to accept the characters’ fabricated realities because they so fully accept each other. how is this minor burnett damn.  (i was especially hyped to find out that starring opposite the great james earl jones were lynn redgrave and margot…

KYK

Having seen a few of Charles Burnett's films now I can see his aspect on trying to capture the obscure characters in moments of subtle challenge of their lives and truly that's what we have here as two polarizing people with awkward magnets agitate as they move together…

pirateneckbeard

”I’d die before I’d laugh at somebody’s loneliness.”

Graham L. Carter

#1 spot on my Letterboxd top 4 for years. Weirder and wilder than I remembered… what an imaginative movie about TRUE love, something that will open your mind like nothing else.  Special to see it with MY true love, who is always shadow boxing at home :) I should play…

KYK

true love is only possible when we trust someone enough to reveal our interiority —the worlds we build to deal with the weight of surviving — despite the risk of revealing how strange we all really are.

Maya Cade

In “The Annihilation of Fish,” age is the accumulation of scars. Aching memories, unhealed bruises and pent-up desires remain alive even when many of the sights and sounds that once decorated one’s existence are dormant. For James Earl Jones and Lynn Redgrave, two actors…

Robert Daniels

What an absolute GEM of a film. It's so funny and so decidedly weird and deeply romantic. It almost felt like a lost Flannery O'Connor story. Lynn Redgrave walks a tightrope here and totally nails it. James Earl Jones has some of the best line deliveries of his career. Same…

Marya E. Gates

"You know why there's so much gun violence in America? Because all the demons work for the NRA."

Jeva Lange