Seeing this movie on 4/20 requires a light finesse, considering it was just released in theaters on a small number of screens (and therefore requires you to evacuate your couch, which I am morally and politically against on this high holiday). My Entire High School Sinking Into the Sea (2017) Her commitment to juvenile absurdity, combined with the sincerity that remains Farris’s stock and trade (those eyes!), make this Gregg Araki-helmed feature a quiet masterpiece. Faris delivers a performance that puts her squarely in the Goldie Hawn school of comedy, carrying the entire movie like Lucy by way of Cheech Marin. This little-seen film stars Anna Faris as Jane, who unknowingly consumes an entire plate of her roommate’s weed-infused cupcakes shortly before embarking on a string of mundane tasks she must complete before the day’s end. It may sound a bit like hyperbole, but Smiley Face is perhaps the single most underrated stoner comedy of all time (and my colleagues at MERRY JANE apparently agree). If Seth Rogan and his white-dude-of-the-moment are the Laurel and Hardy of stoner cinema, Chris Tucker and Ice Cube are literally, I don’t know, the Abbot and Costello? Films like Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle and Pineapple Express are latter-day examples of movies where beloved stoners find themselves in over their heads, but Friday takes the DNA of the stoner-crime film and sets it within the specific context of inner-city Los Angeles. The movie is Planet Earth for the era of globalization, and if it sounds pretentious, it’s not: the film is haunting, moving, and exactly the kind of kaleidoscopic imagery you want soundtracking your body high.Īside from giving us “Bye Felicia,” Friday is crucial for establishing a powerful trope in the canon of stoner cinema. Koyaanisqatsi is entirely dialogue-free, and consists of slow-motion or time-lapsed footage of then-contemporary culture, juxtaposing the vibrancy of urban cities with the gravity of the natural world. Glass’s iconic soundtrack serves as the harmony for a movie that’s more tone poem than narrative. Godfrey Reggio’s experimental film still holds up after over thirty years, thanks in no small part to the pulsing, circular score by Philip Glass. These are not necessarily films to add to the stoner canon per sé - you won’t find The Big Lebowskihaunting this list, and there’s no sign of a Cheech or a Chong - but they’re all screenings worthy of working their way into high rotation. Below, we’ve compiled some of the best things to watch this 4/20, and they really run the gamut. Finding a film to properly pair with the day in which He Has Resin is crucial. I don’t want the same thing to happen to you, dear reader. I rewound the opening ten minutes so many times that eventually I allowed myself to just accept it as gibberish. This can sometimes go hideously wrong, like the time I got stoned, watched Grey Gardens, and could not for the life of me decipher that northeastern Kennedy drawl. A munchie of choice has to balance texture and taste, time spent in public after edible consumption must offer some type of reprieve, and on 4/20 a personal favorite pastime is finding the perfect movie to get glossy-eyed and taken by. Here are some of the most memorable unlikely buddy duos throughout the ages.Much like wine and I guess steak, attention must be paid to what we pair with weed. Sometimes human, sometimes Wookiee, and most of the time, endearing. Laurel and Hardy, Abbott and Costello and Matthau and Lemon have been pervasive throughout American cinema history. Male buddy duos have been a part of celluloid history since its inception. Male-bonding films didn’t start with Pineapple Express or The Hangover and they certainly won't end there. But, as Shakespeare wrote: “There is nothing new under the sun.” Indeed, the same is true is Hollywood.
You’d think male buddy films were a novel concept, only recently unearthed. Where else can men safely grow emotionally attached to one another without any stigma? The Los Angeles Times called this genre "a necessary escapist fantasy" for men. This influx of bro films demonstrates that depictions of “boys being boys” is still wildly popular among all ages and genders, even in a post-feminist era. This summer, Hollywood is bringing us Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson in The Internship, Channing Tatum and Jamie Foxx in White House Down and even Johnny Depp and Armie Hammer as the classic Wild West duo in The Lone Ranger. Male buddy films are some of the most popular movies around. Photo: Phil Bray/Twentieth Century Fox and Regency Enterprises
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