![]() ![]() However, Hype was only granted one shot at big screen glory with the garish, ultra-violent Belly showcasing and stretching his unique visual vocabulary to it very limits. Williams continued to churn out videos even as MTV started to “stop playing music”, helming Jay-Z and UGK’s “Big Pimpin’”, writing the short film for Kanye West’s “Runaway” and reteaming with old inspiration Ma$e (who co-starred in the post-Biggie “Mo Money, Mo Problems” spot with Puff Daddy) for “When NY was NY” in ‘15. With an array of fish eye lenses, leering camerawork, and costume changes, a musical style discovered its ultimate documentarian, cementing icons while bringing black fantasies to life. Kelly’s “I Believe I Can Fly” – mini-movies for mix tape loving reprobates who loved challenging their stereo systems’ capacity for bass. The director arguably peaked between ’95-‘97, delivering classic clips like The Notorious B.I.G.’s “Big Poppa”, Missy Elliott’s “The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly)” and R. Beginning in ‘91 with BWP’s “We Want Money”, Williams blazed a path that would revolutionize the language of cinema for the MTV Generation. ![]() Without Hype Williams, the hip hop music video wouldn’t be the same. The seventh entry into this unbroken backlog is Hype Williams’ hyper-stylized hip hop crime saga, Belly … All in all, a mountain of movies to conquer. Some will be favorites, others oddities, with esoteric eccentricities thrown in for good measure. Not that there’s anything wrong with filmic “comfort food” (God knows we all have titles we frequently return to when we crave that warm and fuzzy feeling), but if you love movies, you should never stop searching for the next title that’s going to make your “To Watch” list that much more insurmountable. Ostensibly an extension of Everybody’s Into Weirdness (may that series rest in peace), The Savage Stack is a compilation of the odd and magnificent motion pictures you probably should be watching instead of popping in The Avengers for the 2,000 th time. This column is here to make that problem worse. ![]() Whether it’s a pile of DVDs and Blu-rays haphazardly amassed atop our television stands, or a seemingly endless digital queue on our respective streaming accounts, there’s simply more movies than time to watch them. There’s always going to be – for lack of a better term – a stack of films we’ve been meaning to get to. ![]()
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