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2018-09-10 02:09
September 6 – Got to Raleigh and checked into the hotel by about 6 PM. Similar phone problems as last year, but that’s it on that subject. I’m still getting a sense of wher… Read More
2017-08-10 02:20
2017 Summer Movie #51 – The Man Who Haunted Himself (Basil Dearden, 1970): This marks the end of the Filmstruck Dearden collection, and was his last film.  He died in a car accide… Read More
2017-08-04 22:52
2017 Summer Movie #41 – Tom Jones (Tony Richardson, 1963): Despite some elements that are a bit problematic, this film is well worth seeing if you love good movie making.  Richard… Read More
2017-07-26 21:21
2017 Summer Movie #31 – Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Hiroshima Death Match, or Deadly Fight in Hiroshima (Kinji Fukasaku, 1973): This is the second of the five films in the Yaku… Read More
2017-07-24 19:40
2017 Summer Movie #21 – Letters From Baghdad (Sabine Krayenbühl & Zeva Oelbaum, 2016): This is a documentary about the life of Gertrude Bell, a prominent British Orientalist w… Read More
2017-07-04 22:48
2017 Summer Movie #11 – On Dangerous Ground (Nicholas Ray, 1951): Another of Ray’s noir films.  This time a cop who is turning increasingly sadistic due to isolation and the… Read More
2017-06-01 18:04
2017 Summer Movie #1 – From Caligari to Hitler (Rüdiger Suchsland, 2014): Summer 2017 Movie #1 – This is a documentary based on a 1947 book which analyzed Weimar era German… Read More
2017-05-30 19:29
Here is a bunch of mini-reviews from last year that I had scattered across several draft posts and just never published. Film #1 – You Only Live Once (Fritz Lang, 1937): This is Lang… Read More
2016-06-25 02:31
Summer Movie #11 – That Hamilton Woman (Alexander Korda, 1941): This movie is as different from the last I watched – Derek Jarman’s “Jubilee” – as it is p… Read More
2016-05-31 19:15
Summer Movie #1 – Germany Year Zero (Roberto Rossellini, 1948): At the time I’m writing this, I’m about a week away from heading to Berlin, and here it is as shot by a mast… Read More
2015-07-01 01:03
Summer Movie #41 – Man Hunt (Fritz Lang, 1941): Walter Pidgeon plays a big-game hunter who winds up looking at Hitler through a rifle scope sometime shortly before the war and then spe… Read More
2015-06-22 02:17
Summer Movie (additional) – Carlos (Oscar Assayas, 2010): I’m not putting this in my movie count because it is technically a TV miniseries.  This tells the story of the terr… Read More
2015-06-02 00:41
Summer Movie (additional) – La voyage dans la lune (Gorges Melies, 1902): This is the restored version that was released in 2011 and premiered at Cannes that year.  It is notable… Read More
2015-06-01 18:22
Summer Movie #11 – The Other One: The Long Strange Trip of Bob Weir (Mike Fleiss, 2014): As the title suggests, this is a biographical documentary about Bob Weir of The Grateful Dead… Read More
2015-05-26 02:22
Summer Movie #1 – Mad Max: Fury Road (George Miller, 2015): SPOILER-FREE  In case you were worried that years of making movies like “Babe” and “Happy Feet”… Read More
2015-05-24 03:58
2014 Movie #21 – Machete Kills (Robert Rodriguez, 2013): What can I possibly say that the movie didn’t with “Machete Happens”. I think this is the sort of thing you e… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Fall Movie #11 – Parker (Taylor Hackford, 2013): This is a solid “B” action film; nothing extraordinary, but still entertaining. It is a combination of a heist film and a r… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Fall Movie #1 – Atragon (Ishiro Honda, 1963): This is a science fiction film from the man who directed the original “Godzilla” as well as many other “tokusatsu”… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Summer Movie #91 – Galaxy of Terror (Bruce D. Clark, 1981): It is called “Galaxy of Terror” and it was produced by Roger Corman. I think we can all see where this is going… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Fall Break Movie #1 – Fulltime Killer (Johnnie To & Wai Ka-Fai, 2001):  Here we have a film that happily sacrifices any sense of heavy drama for heaps of stylish darkness. Thi… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Summer Movie #71 – Mission: Impossible 3 (J.J. Abrams, 2006): With this movie the franchise got back on to firmer ground. The film is more about the technology and the capers than the… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Summer Movie #61 – Tears of the Sun (Antoine Fuqua, 2003) I was in a mood, so I watched this again.  No new reactions, except that a competent filmmaker can manipulate your f… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Summer Movie #51 – The General (John Boorman, 1998): No, not that one – this is a biographical film about Martin Cahill, an Irish crime boss who was assassinated by the IRA in 19… Read More

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