24 Hours Of Movies: Valentine

by Patrick Bromley

Streets of Fire (1984, dir. Walter Hill)

True Romance (1993, dir. Tony Scott)

Spring (2015, dir. Justin Benson & Aaron Moorhead)

Yoga Hosers (2016, dir. Kevin Smith)

It's late/early and our brains our fried, so let's go with something goofy and stupid and not unlike a Saturday morning cartoon. The reason I'm picking Yoga Hosers -- arguably Kevin Smith's least-loved movie (by the public at large, anyway; I remain a fan) -- is because it's a movie that says not all love need be romantic. Maybe your best friend is your valentine, and all you want to do is hang out with that person and joke around and have fun and play in your grup band together and fight off evil Nazi bratwurst creatures. The love between two best friends is some of the best love any of us get to feel. Yoga Hosers gets that right.

6 am - Valley Girl (1983, dir. Martha Coolidge)

I want to aktivitas an '80s teen romance in this spot, and listening to the latest episode of Brian Saur's Just the Discs podcast reminded me that Valley Girl is one of the better young love stories of that decade. I've also seen it way less than John Hughes' filmography, meaning it will feel somewhat new while still being familiar. It's the perfect movie to get us to the finish line.

8 am - Punch-Drunk Love (2003, dir. Paul Thomas Anderson)

What better movie to close out when we've been watching movies for 24 hours and are totally punch drunk than this one? When the strings on the soundtrack swell and the image dissolves into just a bunch of colors on screen, we won't be sure whether that's the movie we're watching or if we're just going crazy. It's perfect! Paul Thomas Anderson didn't make a movie about what being in love looks like; he made one about how it feels.

Happy Valentine's Day, everyone.