Hello, I suppose that I have not told you much about myself, so here goes, it is time for Better Knowa Blogger. Enjoy, or don’t. I don’t know the value of these exercises. Favorite movie not many people have seen? The Double Life of Veronique, if I assume this means the mass film watching population […]
Read more "Better Know a Blogger"It is time for another quick hits. In this edition I watch several Werner Herzog films and manage to feel bad about myself, read on! Even Dwarves Started Small dir. Werner Herzog – 1970 – 4.1 – I have a feeling that this film will be placed next to Eraserhead in films I watched but […]
Read more "Quick Hits"This weeks “Themeless Quick Hits” is another themeless mash-up of uncollected films. Mostly, some are, but there was no solid, complete theme. Lawless dir. John Hillcoat – 2012 – 7.00 – Several years ago I watched The Proposition by John Hillcoat, but not because of the director but because of the writer. I have been […]
Read more "Themeless Quick Hits"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. Krysztof Kieslowski – 9.07 2 Chungking Express – dir. Wong Kar-Wai – 8.73 2 Zero Dark Thiry – dir. Kathryn Bigalow – 8.73 4 Persona – dir. Ingmar Bergman […]
Read more "An Updated Top 25"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 […]
Read more "Summer Film Fest 2016: The final batch."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 […]
Read more "Summer Film Fest 2016 Updates"Red River dir. Howard Hawks – 1948 – 5.87 – Red River kicks off my Summer Film Fest for 2016 mostly because I wanted to watch westerns. There is not too much I can say about the film, it is a western, the acting between John Wayne and Montgomery Clift was very interesting and compelling. […]
Read more "Summer Film Fest 2016: or Regarding Horses"In a few weeks I will be celebrating my annual summer film festival which was the impetus for this website nearly two years ago. Of the 108 posts most of them are full length reviews with several of these Quick Hits it is a pleasure to still be writing here after all this time. That […]
Read more "Quick Hits: Pre Summer Film Fest edition."Hits… Sunset Blvd dir. Billy Wilder – 7.7 – I hate that moment after I watch a movie and then, just as it ends, I an furious with myself for not having watched it sooner. Sunset Blvd is a wonderful Hollywood-Noir film that should not be possible. The basic plot circles around a b-level movie writer […]
Read more "Quick Hits….and misses…"Hamlet dir. Laurence Olivier – 6.3 – Out of the blue several weeks ago I decided to start reading Shakespeare for fun. Actually, as I write this I remember that I was reading through Sandman by Neil Gaiman for the umteenth time and when I started reading the author’s imagination of A Midsummer Night’s Dream […]
Read more "Quick Hits (during which I watched Zero Dark Thirty…again)"