dir. Nate Parker – 2016 – 117 min – 6.40 I was talking with my friend Aaron the other day about how picky I am. The wider my film vocabulary becomes the more I notice how my tastes effect my enjoyment of films. The Birth of a Nation falls victim to this. The film tells […]
Read more "The Birth of a Nation"Over the past week I have watched two documentaries one will probably receive an Academy award nomination, the other will not. The docs in question are O.J. Made in America and Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds. O.J Made in America dir. Ezra Edelman – 463 min – 2016 – 5.77 WARNING: There […]
Read more "Two Documentaries"2017 Starting Top 25! As far as I am concerned you can never go wrong with any of these films. Top 10 1. The Double Life of Veronique – dir. Krzysztof Kieslowski – 9.53 2. A Short Film About Love – dir. Krzysztof Kieslowski – 8.80 3. Barry Lyndon – dir. Stanley Kubrick – 8.73 3. Chungking […]
Read more "2017 Starting Top 25"Below are my suggestions for the Top 15 Home Video Releases. First, I have not watched, nor do I intend to watch, every release this year. While the films themselves are the most important part of all releases there are some times in which the whole package elevates a release beyond what we have become […]
Read more "Top 15 Home Video Releases of 2016"Last week Flicker Alley, in association with Blackhawk Films Collection, released Children of Divorce directed by Frank Lloyd and Josef von Sternberg. The 1927 film starring “IT” girl Clara Bow is now, for the first time, available in a Blu-ray/DVD combo pack. The film is an adaptation of Owen Johnson’s novel of the same name. […]
Read more "Children of Divorce"Today, November 15, 2016, shows the release of two new Cinerama blu-rays/DVD combos from Flicker Alley, Russian Adventure, and The Best of Cinerama.
Read more "The Best of Cinerama"What a strange couple of months.
Read more "Update of Sorts"Hello I am sorry for the lack of an update. I wish I could say that I have been wildly busy and this was the cause of my neglect. That is not the truth. The truth is that I recently had surgery, wisdom teeth, all is well, and I watched what many would call “too […]
Read more "Update! :::blows off dust::: Let’s Watch Movies!"This weekend I was able to play a little catch up on more recent films rather than 50-year-old black and white international films. The only film I am not listing yet is The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby by Ned Benson because it is an interesting concept for a film. The one story exists in three […]
Read more "Quick hits – a modern edition"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 […]
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