Summer Film Festival 2017 – Day Six and Seven

Summer Film Festival 2017 – Day Six Pieces Director: Juan Piquer Simon Screenplay: Dick Randall and John W. Shadow Minutes: 85 Year: 1982 Score: 3.27 Release: Grindhouse Releasing I would first like to thank Arrow Video for telling me this exists, now I would like to thank Grindhouse for releasing a US edition. This is […]

Summer Film Festival 2017 – Day Five

Summer Film Fest 2017 – Day Five Prisoners Director: Denis Villeneuve Screenplay: Aaron Guzikowski Minutes: 153 Year: 2013 Score: 7.60 Release: Plain Archive This film is incredible. I remember seeing a trailer for it when it was coming out originally and I think there is an issue with the marketing because I quickly forgot about […]

Summer Film Festival 2017 – Day Four

They Live by Night Director: Nicolas Ray Screenplay: Minutes: 95 Year: 1948 Score: 6.67 Release: Criterion Collection I am rather new to Nicolas Ray and have somehow never watched Rebel Without a Cause, that’s how new. I have seen a few and have enjoyed each of them. They Live by Night is no different. It […]

Summer Film Festival 2017 – Day Three

Day of the Dead Director: George A Romero Screenplay: George A. Romero Minutes: 102 Year: 1985 Score: 7.07 Release: Shout Factory I love George Romero movies, specifically the zombie ones. His ability to elevate the genre beyond a splatter fest into a social commentary; he also knows how to make a splatter fest. Day of […]

Summer Film Festival 2017 – Day Two

Day two of the Summer Film Fest includes Phenomena, The Zookeeper’s Wife, Two-Lane Blacktop and Cannibal Holocaust. Lets start by saying I hate one poster.

Summer Film Festival 2017 – Day One

I watched two episodes of Out 1 before moving onto shorter features. I don’t have the necessary constitution to watch a 13-hour French New Wave masterpiece in one sitting. Back at it after church tomorrow.

Summer Film Fest 2017

Tomorrow is the official state of the 2017 Summer Film Festival in my living room but unlike most quality film festivals I have no plans. I have set play list but I am going to try and knock films off of my watch list.

Film Fest – Labor day weekend

Holiday weekends are a great time for a film fest. Still Alice dir. Richard Glatzer – 2014 – 7.79 – I will be recording a podcast about this movie is a few months and I have not fully unpacked my weepy viewing of this excellent film. Julianne Moore deserved the Oscar for her performance as […]

Summer Film Fest 2016: The final batch.

Samurai Trilogy dir. Hiroshi Inagaki – 5.91 – This is not a surprise to me but it may be the first time I considered that samurai films, as a genre, are sibling films to westerns. Again, this is not something I was unfamiliar with but I just never bothered to fire off too many computational […]

Summer Film Fest 2016 Updates

Limelight dir. Charles Chaplin – 1952 – 7.4 – Chaplin’s final starring role is one of his best and is an ample sendoff to his brilliant career. In the film he stars as an aging headliner who acts as a manic pixie girl for a dancer, played by Claire Bloom, and they convince each other […]