tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35038974802578837822024-03-14T02:36:48.271-04:00Turn Off The LimelightAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08004625929657399742noreply@blogger.comBlogger23125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3503897480257883782.post-41405806324195102192015-02-21T13:59:00.003-05:002015-02-21T13:59:56.135-05:00Recap - January 2015* = Rewatch # = Short ^ = In Theater<br />
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1. A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014)^<br />
2. Unbroken (2014)^<br />
3. Why Don't You Play in Hell? (2014)^<br />
4. Lord Thing (1970)<br />
5. Walk East on Beacon! (1952)<br />
6. I Met My Love Again (1938)<br />
7. The Dark End of the Street (1981)<br />
8. Inherent Vice (2014)^<br />
9. Phase IV (1974)<br />
10. Black & White & Red All Over (1997)<br />
11. Seven Women, Seven Sins (1986)<br />
12. Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property (2003)<br />
13. Signs (2002)<br />
14. Three Outlaw Samurai (1964)<br />
15. Mystery Street (1950)<br />
16. Venus in Fur (2014)<br />
17. Rehearsals (2012)<br />
18. Doggiewoggiez! Poochiewoochiez! (2012)<br />
19. Citizen Kane (1941)*^<br />
20. The War of the Worlds (1953)<br />
21. Crime and Punishment (1935)<br />
22. Up in Smoke (1978)<br />
23. The Cape Canaveral Monsters (1960)<br />
24. Arachnophobia (1990)<br />
25. The Strange Color of Your Body's Tears (2013)<br />
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TOTAL FOR THE YEAR: 25<br />
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<b>Boston Movies:</b><br />
<b><br /></b>Last year I picked up the book Big Screen Boston by Paul Sherman in order to better explore the films of Boston and Massachusetts in general. I watched a handful of films last year (Including the excellent and forgotten <b>Dealing: Or the Berkeley-To-Boston Forty-Brick Lost-Bag Blues</b>) but I've been amping it up recently, extending into February. For January I watched <b>Walk East on Beacon!</b>, <b>The Dark End of the Street</b>, <b>Black & White & Red All Over</b>, and <b>Mystery Street</b>.<br />
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The best of the batch is by far Jan Egleson's <b>The Dark End of the Street</b>. It's the story of two white teens who witness the accidental death of a black friend, but lie about being present should the police think it was a murder. Consequentially the lives of this circle of friends falls apart and long-ignored questions of race and privilege get brought to the surface.<br />
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It's notable that Dark End came out in 1981, in the midst of Boston's infamous public school desegregation process. The anti-integration protests and violence had mostly occurred in the seventies, but the memories were fresh and painful.<br />
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While Dark End never directly addresses segregation or busing, it fits right in with the decade's racial zeitgeist. It covers the outrage sparked by improper media coverage of a black man's death. It deals with white privilege in the sense that two white teenagers are able to outrun race issues for so long (until it finally catches up with them). It's a stark, realistic social drama that never managed to get on it's own two legs.<br />
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<b>Top Five New-To-Me:</b><br />
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<b>Phase IV </b>(1974, dir. Saul Bass)</div>
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Unsettling avant-garde surreality mixed with a Twilight Zone B-story. This had to have been an influence on <b>Under the Skin</b>. Gorgeous cinematography with an unmatchable sense of size and scale.<br />
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I think reading the novel helped me to follow along, but the plot isn't really important. It's a film shot in a haze, one of the few movies I know of to really capture the feeling of being high. The film itself is structured in a way that feels like a trip - rising, peaking, and a hard come down.<br />
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Like soaring through a vortex of 90s dog movies. Hyper-kinetic editing that never slows down. The <b>Holy Mountain </b>theme made the movie, elevating this mishmash of <b>Air Bud</b> clips into an ethereal experience. If <b>Inherent Vice </b>captures a marijuana high, then I imagine this is what DMT is like.<br />
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<b> </b>Peter Lorre is an odd choice for Raskolnikov. In a cast of Americans, his distinct accent causes him to stick out among them so we end up with a version of the character whom we never doubt is a cold-blooded murderer. It creates for a less morally ambiguous story, but for a tighter, tenser performance. As with every version of <b>Crime and Punishment </b>my favorite parts are the scenes with Porfiry Petrovich. Also, I love love love Von Sternberg's close-ups.<b> </b><br />
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I really look like a burnout right now, don't I? I skipped Cheech & Chong for so long but man, this movie is so much fun. The battle of the bands with the terrible cookie cutter punk groups was gold.<br />
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<i>The formatting of this recap was shamelessly ripped off from cinema-fanatic.com.</i> <br />
<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08004625929657399742noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3503897480257883782.post-78159781440299471132014-08-24T13:13:00.000-04:002014-08-24T13:13:43.069-04:00My Week In Film - 8/24/14As a challenge to myself to write more, I'm hoping to do brief reviews of every movie I watch. I'll cover what I watched the previous week, from Sunday to Saturday, and offer quick capsules of my thoughts and observations. Some may be more formally written, others may just be a collection of raw ideas. Here's everything I watched from 8/17/14 to 8/23/14.<br />
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</span></b>(2014)<br />
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">dir. John Michael McDonagh</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I wrote a proper review of this which will be
published online over at <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Wicked Local </i>on
Friday. But I think this may just be one of the best films of the year, my
second favorite I’ve seen so far, only surpassed by <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Under the Skin</b>. <br />
<br />
Brendan Gleeson is proving to be one of the finest actors working today. Here
he pulls off an astounding balance between being a strong, toughened priest with
the wisdom to lead his flock (if only they would listen to him), and being
emotionally vulnerable and privately frightened. As Sunday draws nearer he
becomes increasingly erratic, knowing that he may very well die.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I don’t have too much to add that’s not already in
my full length review, so I’ll just close by saying that I really need to track
down McDonagh’s first film, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">The Guard</b>.
After seeing <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Calvary </b>I need some
more Brendan Gleeson in my life.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Gentlemen
Prefer Blondes </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">(1953)<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">dir. Howard Hawks</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Watched this on a whim while browsing through
Netflix, and while it has its slow points, it’s a ton of fun. I wouldn’t be the
first to point out Marilyn Monroe’s magnetism. It’s not even that she’s
gorgeous, it’s that there is something about her very presence, the way she
carries herself which instantly draws your eyes towards her. Even in a movie
like <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">All About Eve</b>, where she spends
much of her screen time standing in a circle listening to other characters,
your eyes still shift towards her.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">This was also the first Jane Russell movie I’ve
seen, although apparently she had a relatively short career. She does a spot-on
Monroe impression at the end. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Generally, the film shines during the musical
numbers. The set design during <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Diamonds
Are a Girl’s Best Friend</i> is breathtaking. The pure red background coupled with
the human candelabras, which seemed ripped straight out of a Cocteau film, make
for one of the finest numbers I’ve ever seen in a film musical.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Finally, I love the kid. He’s got this deadpan that
reminds me of when David Lynch acts. Everything he says is pure gold. His interaction
with Monroe when she’s stuck in the porthole is one of the film’s high points.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Pinocchio
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">(1940)<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">dir. Hamilton Luske & Ben Sharpsteen</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Rewatch. Last year I thought it would be fun to go
through every movie in the Disney Animated Canon. Well, I watched <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Snow White</b>, never wrote the piece I was
going to do on it, and then forgot about the project. I finally decided to keep
it going, at the least so I can have a better understanding of Disney, given
that everybody my age is still obsessed with them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I haven’t seen <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Pinocchio</b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i>since I was a kid, and I was pleasantly
surprised by it. The first half hour is a bit slow; the film takes its sweet
time setting things up. But once it hits Pleasure Island it really hits on to
something. Unlike a lot of the Disney stuff I remember, it doesn’t force itself
into magical realism. I respect that willingness to get <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">strange.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The Monstro sequence is the best part of the film by
far. Beautiful ocean animation that really makes the whale feel like a force of
nature. It has an impressionist touch to it that elevates the scene from simply suspenseful to iconic.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">An
Evening With Robin Williams </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">(1982)<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">dir. Don Mischer</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Been slowly working my way through a lot of Williams
stuff in the wake of his death (as I’m sure a lot of others are as well. This
is the first stand up special of his that I’ve seen, and sadly I was a little
disappointed. Maybe it’s because I watched it by myself, and live comedy is
always better enjoyed with other people. But I think a lot of his jokes were
dated. Stuff about cats and dogs that may have been funny in 1982 feels like
old hat now.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">There are highlights though. His imaginary
conversation with his soon-to-be-born son is a lot of fun. And his bit about
cocaine had me laughing. I also really admire his stage presence, and his
ability to do something like grab a woman’s coat and just start riffing with
it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The best part of the special is probably the framing
device, in which Williams plays a grungy street vendor who meets himself after
the show. They leave the concert hall and the street vendor looks up and says “<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">You know Mr. Williams, what's right is
what's left after you do everything else wrong. Ain't that a bitch?” It’s a
really tender moment to cap off a night of frantic improv. </span></span></div>
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</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">(2014)<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">dir. Denis Villeneuve</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Hoo boy. I watched this a few days ago and it has
stayed with me. I was feeling worried when Gyllenhaal started trying to track
down the man who looks just like him. It seemed too much like the dime a dozen “mindfuck”
movies from the early 2000s (think <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Identity</b>).
But once he finally meets his doppelganger it goes above and beyond.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I hate to compare surreal movies to David Lynch but
it really is in his shadow. I think it would make for a perfect double feature
with <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Mulholland Dr.</b>, given that they
both cover a lot of the same themes.</span></div>
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Star </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">(1974)<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">dir. John Carpenter</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Poor acting, bad story, unfunny script. But my god
is it gorgeous. It has that homegrown aesthetic, but you never see colorful lighting
in professional films like you see here. Maybe Mario Bava, but that’s about it.
It works best during the quiet ambient moments, which would go on to become
Carpenter’s strong suit.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">It’s worth a watch as a curio to see where Carpenter
and Dan O’Bannon got their start, but on its own it’s not that tight. Still, it’s
astounding to think that just four years later Carpenter would be making <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Halloween</b>, and a year after that O’Bannon
would give us <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Alien</b>. </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Night
of the Living Dead </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">(1968)<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">dir. George A. Romero</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Rewatch. Saw this at a midnight screening on a
scratched up 35mm print and I have never had a greater appreciation for the
film than I do now. I already loved it, but this viewing really drove home to
me how much of a masterpiece it is.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The editing during the more action and horror
oriented scenes is top notch. Beautiful camera work, stunning sound design. I
completely forgot the horrible screaming that overlays Helen’s death (that
scene is like Romero’s version of the shower scene from <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Psycho</b>, but he owns it and makes it his own).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">It’s a story about how our inability to cooperate
will damn us. They had the ability to survive, but the combination of pride and
fear killed them all. Were it not for Harry’s antagonizing and his cowardice it’s
possible they could have made it through the night.<br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I also noticed that the shot with Romero’s director
credit is a close-up of an American flag, panning over to Barbara and Johnny’s
car driving through the cemetery. A subtle moment that was always hiding in
plain sight.</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08004625929657399742noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3503897480257883782.post-64378369347311042292013-12-31T09:19:00.002-05:002013-12-31T20:40:42.177-05:00Every Movie I Watched in 2013* = Rewatch # = Short<br />
<br />
The Invisible War (2012)<br />
Stalker (1979)<br />
Killer Joe (2012)<br />
Cosmopolis (2012)<br />
The Brood (1979)<br />
The Grand Duel (1972)<br />
The Decline of Western Civilization (1981)<br />
Promised Land (2012)<br />
The Panic In Needle Park (1971)<br />
Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! (1990)<br />
Even Dwarfs Started Small (1970)<br />
Sweetgrass (2009)<br />
Three Colors: Blue (1993)<br />
Three Colors: White (1994)<br />
Three Colors: Red (1994)<br />
Miller's Crossing (1990)<br />
Joe (1970)<br />
Zero Dark Thirty (2012)<br />
ParaNorman (2012)<br />
The Legend of Bigfoot (1976)<br />
<br />
<a name='more'></a>Law and Order (1969)<br />
The Last Performance (1927)<br />
Amour (2012)<br />
Trash Humpers (2009)<br />
The Passion of Anna (1969)<br />
The Lost Weekend (1945)<br />
Harakiri (1962)<br />
Boss Nigger (1975)<br />
Punisher: War Zone (2008)<br />
Metropolitan (1990)<br />
Happy (2011)<br />
Nausicaa (1984)<br />
The Night of the Hunted (1980)<br />
Little Dieter Needs To Fly (1997)<br />
The Searchers (1956)<br />
Nanook of the North (1922)<br />
Don't Look Back (1967)<br />
The Aviator (2004)<br />
What's A Nice Girl Like You Doing In A Place Like This? (1963)#<br />
UHF (1989)*<br />
Beavis and Butt-Head Do America (1996)<br />
Italianamerican (1974)<br />
The Last Temptation of Christ (1988)<br />
The Red and the White (1967)<br />
The Fog of War (2003)<br />
Dark Horse (2011)<br />
Johnny Cool (1963)<br />
7 Plus Seven (1970)<br />
Amistad (1997)<br />
Warm Bodies (2013)<br />
Neshoba: The Price of Freedom (2008)<br />
The Plow That Broke the Plains (1936)#<br />
Floating Weeds (1959)<br />
Deliverance (1972)<br />
She's Gotta Have It (1986)<br />
Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979)<br />
Gun Crazy (1950)<br />
Fantomas - A l'ombre de la guillotine (1913)<br />
Re-Animator (1985)<br />
The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 (2011)<br />
Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple (2006)<br />
Batman (1966)<br />
L'atalante (1934)<br />
Pickpocket (1959)<br />
F For Fake (1973)<br />
Daisies (1966)<br />
Snow Trail (1947)<br />
Side Effects (2013)<br />
My Nightmare (1993)#<br />
Le Jour se lève (1939)<br />
Lo (2009)<br />
Welcome to the Dollhouse (1995)<br />
Dark Skies (2013)<br />
Santa sangre (1989)<br />
Fantomas - Juve contre Fantômas (1913)<br />
Eat (1963)<br />
Louis Theroux: The Most Hated Family In America In Crisis (2011)<br />
The Times of Harvey Milk (1984)<br />
Sex, Lies, and Videotape (1989)<br />
¡Que Viva Mexico! (1932)<br />
Steamboat Willie (1928)#<br />
John Dies at the End (2012)<br />
The Foreigner (1978)<br />
Police State (1987)#<br />
Time After Time (1979)<br />
Hyas et stenorinques (1929)#<br />
Pray the Devil Back to Hell (2008)<br />
Les oursins (1958)#<br />
Comment naissent les méduses (1960)#<br />
Black Girl (1966)<br />
Cristaux liquides (1978)#<br />
Tiny Furniture (2010)<br />
The Wicker Man (2006)<br />
Run Lola Run (1998)<br />
Malcolm X (1992)<br />
Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (1999)<br />
Blue Collar (1978)<br />
The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)<br />
Dead Man Down (2013)<br />
Stoker (2013)<br />
Repo Man (1984)*<br />
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)<br />
Film socialisme (2010)<br />
La Vallée (1972)<br />
Spring Breakers (2013)<br />
Kidnapped (1974)<br />
Spring Breakers (2013)*<br />
The Delinquents (1957)<br />
Bigfoot Lives (2007)<br />
Vernon, Florida (1982)<br />
Sugar Cane Alley (1983)<br />
Young @ Heart (2007)<br />
Fantomas - Le mort qui tue (1913)<br />
Coven (2000)#<br />
Last Year at Marienbad (1961)<br />
Siberian Lady Macbeth (1961)<br />
American Movie (1999)*<br />
Black Sunday (1960)<br />
The Agronomist (2003)<br />
Skateistan: Four Wheels and a Board in Kabul (2011)<br />
Knuckle (2011)<br />
No Country For Old Men (2007)*<br />
The Birds (1963)<br />
Mary Poppins (1964)<br />
Withnail & I (1987)<br />
The Bed Sitting Room (1969)<br />
Act of Valor (2012)<br />
Heathers (1989)<br />
Jurassic Park (1993)*<br />
God Grew Tired of Us (2006)<br />
Koridorius (1995)<br />
How Tasty Was My Little Frenchman (1971)<br />
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)*<br />
Sunset Blvd. (1950)*<br />
White Dog (1982)<br />
The Man from Planet X (1951)<br />
The Place Beyond the Pines (2013)<br />
Room 237 (2013)<br />
Le Samouraï (1967)<br />
Natura contro (1988)<br />
Why We Fight (2005)<br />
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)<br />
Revolution (1968)<br />
Marat/Sade (1967)<br />
The Creeping Terror (1964)<br />
I Am (2011)<br />
His Girl Friday (1940)<br />
Spellbound (2002)<br />
The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (1994)<br />
The Girl Who Knew Too Much (1963)<br />
I Spit On Your Grave (1978)<br />
O Dreamland (1953)#<br />
Iron Man 3 (2013)<br />
A Boy and His Dog (1975)<br />
Pain & Gain (2013)<br />
The Wolf Man (1941)<br />
The Great Dictator (1940)<br />
Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992)*<br />
2 or 3 Things I Know About Her (1967)<br />
Film in Which There Appear Edge Lettering, Sprocket Holes, Dirt Particles, Etc. (1966)#<br />
Northern Lights (1997)<br />
The Velvet Underground and Nico (1966)<br />
Made in U.S.A. (1966)<br />
White Zombie (1932)<br />
Ah, L'Amour (1995)#<br />
Genre (1996)#<br />
Lily and Jim (1997)#<br />
Billy's Balloon (1998)#*<br />
Rejected (2000)#*<br />
The Meaning of Life (2005)#<br />
It's Such a Beautiful Day (2012)<br />
Wisdom Teeth (2010)#<br />
Zabriskie Point (1970)<br />
A Woman Under the Influence (1974)<br />
Kiss of the Damned (2013)<br />
Pierrot le fou (1965)<br />
Deep Throat (1972)<br />
The King of Marvin Gardens (1972)<br />
if.... (1968)<br />
King of Hearts (1966)<br />
Meshes of the Afternoon (1943)#<br />
At Land (1944)#<br />
Ritual in Transfigured Time (1946)#<br />
A Study in Choreography for Camera (1945)#<br />
Meditation on Violence (1948)#<br />
The Very Eye of Night (1958)#<br />
The Private Life of a Cat (1944)#<br />
Fando y Lis (1968)<br />
Stories We Tell (2013)<br />
Under Wraps (1997)*<br />
The Curse of Frankenstein (1957)<br />
The Hangover Part III (2013)<br />
Ladies and Gentlemen, the Fabulous Stains (1981)<br />
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)<br />
Jack Reacher (2012)<br />
Heathers (1989)*<br />
Dead Ringers (1988)<br />
Ugetsu (1953)<br />
Freddy Got Fingered (2001)<br />
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension (1984)<br />
Dolemite (1975)<br />
A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III (2013)<br />
After Earth (2013)<br />
Frances Ha (2013)<br />
Fireworks (1947)#<br />
Puce Moment (1949)#<br />
Rabbit's Moon (1950)#<br />
Eaux d'artifice (1953)#<br />
Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome (1954)#<br />
Happiness (1934)<br />
Film (1965)#<br />
Female Trouble (1974)<br />
Pather Panchali (1955)<br />
David Holzman's Diary (1967)<br />
Leaving Las Vegas (1995)<br />
The Purge (2013)<br />
Godzilla, King of the Monsters! (1956)<br />
Switchblade Sisters (1975)<br />
Cape Fear (1962)<br />
Rio Bravo (1959)<br />
A Farewell to Arms (1932)<br />
Triumph of the Will (1935)<br />
This is the End (2013)<br />
Man of Steel (2013)<br />
Olympia 1. Teil - Fest der Völker (1938)<br />
All That Heaven Allows (1955)<br />
Olympia 2. Teil - Fest der Schönheit (1938)<br />
Gimme Shelter (1970)<br />
Woyzeck (1979)<br />
Battle Royale (2000)*<br />
Titanic (1997)<br />
Berberian Sound Studio (2012)<br />
Suspiria (1977)<br />
Kill Baby, Kill (1966)<br />
Much Ado About Nothing (2013)<br />
Upstream Color (2013)<br />
Strike (1925)<br />
Creepshow (1982)<br />
Fantômas contre Fantômas (1914)<br />
Mondo Trasho (1969)<br />
The General (1926)<br />
Le faux magistrat (1914)<br />
Incubus (1965)<br />
Now You See Me (2013)<br />
You Lucky Dog (1998)<br />
Before Sunrise (1995)<br />
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990)<br />
Before Sunset (2004)<br />
Seven Chances (1925)<br />
TMNT (2007)<br />
Dredd (2012)<br />
The Heat (2013)<br />
The Bling Ring (2013)<br />
Jules et Jim (1962)<br />
The Killer is Loose (1956)<br />
Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)<br />
Jaws (1975)*<br />
Bring It On (2000)<br />
The Lone Ranger (2013)<br />
Scorpio Rising (1964)#<br />
Kustom Kar Kommandos (1965)#<br />
Invocation of My Demon Brother (1969)#<br />
National Lampoon's Animal House (1978)*<br />
Tokyo Story (1953)<br />
Miami Connection (1987)<br />
Before Midnight (2013)<br />
V/H/S/2 (2013)<br />
A Grin Without a Cat (1977)<br />
Taxi Driver (1976)*<br />
The Fountainhead (1949)<br />
Oprheus (1950)<br />
Pacific Rim (2013)<br />
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)<br />
Only God Forgives (2013)<br />
First Spaceship On Venus (1960)<br />
The Story of a Three-Day Pass (1968)<br />
Fantastic Argoman (1967)<br />
Lucifer Rising (1972)#<br />
The Man We Want to Hang (2002)#<br />
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)*<br />
Solaris (1972)<br />
Friday (1995)<br />
Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (2011)<br />
Multiple Maniacs (1970)<br />
Dead Right (1993)<br />
L'Age d'or (1930)<br />
A Good Day to Die Hard (2013)<br />
Shaun of the Dead (2004)*<br />
Hot Fuzz (2007)*<br />
The World's End (2013)<br />
Stroszek (1977)<br />
Elgar (1962)<br />
Fruitvale Station (2013)<br />
Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky (1991)<br />
Fascination (1979)<br />
Wet Hot American Summer (2001)*<br />
Tabloid (2010)<br />
The Smurfs 2 (2013)<br />
The Canyons (2013)<br />
Faust (1926)<br />
The Act of Killing (2013)<br />
The Debussy Film (1965)<br />
Always on Sunday (1965)<br />
The 39 Steps (1935)<br />
Salò, or The 120 Days Of Sodom (1975)<br />
Blue Jasmine (2013)<br />
Sightseers (2012)<br />
2 Guns (2013)<br />
Mad Love (1935)<br />
Of Human Bondage (1934)<br />
The Maltese Falcon (1931)<br />
Spring Breakers (2013)*<br />
Talk to Her (2002)<br />
Sacco and Vanzetti (2006)<br />
20 Feet from Stardom (2013)<br />
The Karate Kid (1984)<br />
Jobs (2013)<br />
Satan Met a Lady (1936)<br />
Hypocrites (1915)<br />
Eleanor's Catch (1916)#<br />
The Big Lebowski (1998)*<br />
Barbarella (1968)<br />
Attack of the 50 Foot Woman (1958)<br />
Intolerable Cruelty (2003)<br />
Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster (1964)<br />
War Is Menstrual Envy (1992)<br />
Modern Times (1936)<br />
For the First Time (1967)#<br />
Godzilla vs. Monster Zero (1965)<br />
In a World... (2013)<br />
Scarface (1932)<br />
The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane (1976)<br />
The African Queen (1951)<br />
Don Jon (2013)<br />
Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze (1975)<br />
Mommie Dearest (1981)<br />
Ubu Roi (1965)<br />
L'avventura (1960)<br />
We're the Millers (2013)<br />
Elstree Calling (1930)<br />
Blackmail (1929)<br />
Getaway (2013)<br />
Stage Fright (1950)<br />
Downhill (1927)<br />
Saboteur (1942)<br />
Maria Bamford: The Special Special Special! (2012)<br />
The French Connection (1971)<br />
Shadow of a Doubt (1943)<br />
I Confess (1953)<br />
Duel (1971)<br />
Crystal Fairy (2013)<br />
Tom Jones (1963)<br />
Cat People (1942)<br />
An American Hippie in Israel (1972)<br />
Who's That Knocking at My Door? (1967)<br />
The Spectacular Now (2013)<br />
Closely Watched Trains (1966)<br />
Days of Wine and Roses (1962)<br />
The Struggle (1931)<br />
The Lost World (1925)<br />
Dial M for Murder (1954)<br />
Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989)<br />
Great Expectations (1946)*<br />
The Pervert's Guide to Cinema (2006)<br />
Dune (1984)<br />
Yellow Submarine (1968)<br />
Head (1968)*<br />
Rush (2013)<br />
The Commitments (1991)<br />
The Wrong Man (1956)<br />
A Day in the Country (1936)<br />
Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS (1975)<br />
Gravity (2013)<br />
Sonata for Hitler (1989)#<br />
Abraham Lincoln (1930)<br />
The Immoral Mr. Teas (1959)<br />
The Lost Weekend (1945)*<br />
Ashes and Diamonds (1958)<br />
Glen or Glenda (1953)<br />
Escape from Tomorrow (2013)<br />
Carrie (1976)*<br />
Captain Phillips (2013)<br />
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (2013)<br />
Semiotics of the Kitchen (1975)#<br />
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964)<br />
Carrie (2013)<br />
Bottle Rocket (1994)#<br />
Frankenstein (1931)<br />
Psycho (1960)*<br />
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)*<br />
A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)*<br />
13 Ghosts (1960)<br />
House by the Cemetary (1981)<br />
Hellraiser (1987)<br />
House (1977)*<br />
The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies!!? (1964)<br />
The Honeymoon Killers (1969)<br />
Last Vegas (2013)<br />
Beauty and the Beast (1946)<br />
Sharknado (2013)<br />
Antichrist (2009)<br />
12 Years a Slave (2013)<br />
Stella Maris (1918)<br />
Prince Among Slaves (2007)<br />
Rebel Without a Cause (1955)<br />
Weekend (2011)<br />
Rome, Open City (1945)<br />
As I Lay Dying (2013)<br />
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958)<br />
The Country Girl (1954)<br />
Sarah T. - Portrait of a Teenage Alcoholic (1975)<br />
Dallas Buyers Club (2013)<br />
Django, Kill... If You Live, Shoot! (1967)<br />
Desistfilm (1954)#<br />
Wedlock House: An Intercourse (1959)#<br />
Dog Star Man (1962-1964)<br />
Shoot the Piano Player (1960)<br />
You Only Live Once (1937)<br />
The Big Shave (1967)#<br />
Blue is the Warmest Color (2013)<br />
The Sea Horse (1934)#<br />
Blackfish (2013)<br />
Bride of Frankenstein (1935)<br />
The Driller Killer (1979)<br />
Gremlins (1984)<br />
True Grit (1969)<br />
True Grit (2010)*<br />
Computer Chess (2013)<br />
Cobra Verde (1987)<br />
Gone with the Wind (1939)<br />
The Fast and the Furious (2001)<br />
The Big Doll House (1971)<br />
Brink! (1998)*<br />
Barry Lyndon (1975)<br />
Wrong (2012)<br />
Inside Llewyn Davis (2013)<br />
Nebraska (2013)<br />
The Story of Film: An Odyssey (2011)<br />
The Grapes of Wrath (1940)<br />
The Star Wars Holiday Special (1978)<br />
Pearls of the Deep (1966)<br />
Hannah Arendt (2013)<br />
To the Wonder (2013)<br />
The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)<br />
Serpico (1973)<br />
I Don't Want to be a Man (1918)<br />
Hot Dog Man: A Case Study (2003)# <br />
<b><br />TOTAL</b>: 447<br />
<b>REWATCHES</b>: 33 (2 shorts)<br />
<b>SHORTS</b>: 47 (Including rewatches)<br />
<b>TOTAL NEW-TO-ME FEATURES</b>: 369Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08004625929657399742noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3503897480257883782.post-34461366100118706532013-12-11T00:30:00.001-05:002013-12-11T01:19:49.071-05:00Top 10 of 2012<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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know what you’re thinking and no, that’s not a typo. I find that
end-of-the-year lists are often sprung on us and due to a number of
circumstances they’re not always as accurate as they could be. Sometimes you
miss a movie in theaters and don’t have a chance to catch it before it comes
time to post your Top 10 in late December. Other times a film that initially wowed you doesn’t
seem as amazing with time. And occasionally you’ll just happen to catch a movie
midway through the summer that you hadn’t even considered and be floored by it.</span></div>
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this is why I’ve decided to post my Top 10 of 2012. Hindsight's 20/20 after all. And with much revision, I’ve
come up with a radically different list from the one I crafted back in December
of last year. Some films have stayed; some new films have been added. I still
think that all the movies from my original Top 10 are excellent, but for various
reasons they don’t stand out as much anymore, and space was needed for the
films I felt were more deserving. So, before I go on too long, here are the
best movies of last year.</span></div>
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it is a beautiful and moving fable, combining Greek myth with Louisiana
folklore and creating a story told through the eyes of a five-year old that
feels neither contrived nor corny. It’s visually magnificent, brilliantly
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Black disappear into a role and make me forget I’m watching Jack Black. Everybody
has been fawning over <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Before Midnight</i>
lately, and while that film is excellent, this is the Linklater I love. The
corny, experimental, slice-of-Texas stories he excels at. Shirley MacLaine
delivers an outstanding late-career performance and Matthew McConaughey proves
that he’s at his best when he’s at his sleaziest.</span></div>
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thing for quirky comedies about murder. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Sightseers</i>
is the story of a couple vacationing across the English countryside, whose
passive-aggressive nature leads them on a cross-country killing spree. Cut from
the same cloth as <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Honeymoon Killers</i>,
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Sightseers</i> manages to turn
cold-blooded murder into a brilliant black comedy. Worth it alone for the scene
where Alice Lowe writes a Dear John letter with an oversized novelty pencil.</span></div>
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last December, but I’ve cooled a bit on the film since. Still, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Moonrise Kingdom</i> is another excellent
film in a career full of them. It’s Anderson’s most emotionally honest film
since <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Royal Tenenbaums</i>, and it’s
certainly one of his best looking. Not right now, but in another year or two I’d like to
revisit this movie and see if my opinion’s changed at
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">If <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Inglourious
Basterds</i> was Tarantino making a Sergio Leone film, <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">then </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Django Unchained</i> is him making a Sergio Corbucci film. It’s raw,
energetic, and able to switch between hilarious and gut-wrenching at a moment’s
notice. One of the more daring films of the year and I have to give credit to
Tarantino for not pulling a single punch.</span></div>
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one I expected to stay with me as much as it has. A haunting flick about the
futility of revenge that doubles as historical drama. The final shot of the
movie is maybe the best single film moment of 2012, encapsulating the empty-catharsis
of a decade long search for justice. Bin Laden is dead, justice has been
served, now what?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The scariest part about going insane is that nobody
is actually out to get you. A horror movie without monsters, only the paranoia
and the dread. Toby Jones plays Gildeory, a Foley artist hired to work on an
Italian giallo movie. Through the constant splatter of watermelons and the
screams of actresses in sound booths, the aesthetics of horror are broken down
to their most base elements. It’s spellbinding and ambiguous, and I’m still not
sure I quite understand what it’s saying.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Every few years Steven Spielberg comes along and
makes a masterpiece just to remind us that he’s Steven Spielberg. As much of a cliché
as it is to claim Daniel Day-Lewis is the greatest living actor, his
performance as Abraham Lincoln truly is worthy of being considered amongst the
best in all of cinema. Instantly engaging, beautiful, and perfectly directed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Unfairly dismissed by those who saw the trailer and claimed
it was “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Taken</i> with wolves,” <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Grey</i> is instead a painful and honest
meditation on death. <a href="http://turnoffthelimelight.blogspot.com/2012/11/some-thoughts-on-grey.html">I wrote about it</a> after my initial viewing and it’s only
dug itself deeper into my mind since.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I included <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">It’s
Such a Beautiful Day</i> on my list of my 50 Favorite Films this summer, and I
don’t regret it. Never in my life did I think the man who made <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Rejected</i> could make such an innovative,
powerful piece of art. It’s gone largely unnoticed outside of Don Hertzfeldt’s
cult following, and that’s just criminal. In a mere hour, Hertzfeldt captures the
fleeting nature of life and the indescribable pain of desire, all with cartoon
doodles. Without a doubt in my mind, it is the greatest film of the year.</span></div>
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on Youtube. Amongst the first of them was a mock reality show called <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Sex House</i>, where “six sexy Americans”
are put together in a house to have sex on national television. What starts as
a cheesy reality show parody quickly turns into existential horror, blending <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Real World</i> with Sartre. As the
housemates realize they’re trapped and being manipulated into having sex, they
turn against their oppressors (the network executives) and realize their worth
as human beings. And there’s frogs. Oh boy, are there frogs.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">1. </span></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Moonrise Kingdom</span></span></div>
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<![endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Rebel Without a Cause</i> was one of the
biggest canonical films I kept putting off. I made the mistake of assuming that
it would be a whole lot of “buzz off, Daddy-O” and other <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">West Side Story</i>isms. And while I wasn’t entirely wrong it manages
to go beyond that to make a great statement about the lack of communication and
understanding between generations.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">This
is my first James Dean film and it’s completely understandable why he became
such a star in such a short amount of time – he’s immensely watchable. Despite actually
being twenty-five during filming, he perfectly captures the conflicted mind of
a teenager. He understands the world better than his parents do, but also comes
to find that he really doesn’t know as much as he thinks he does. He can’t find
a solution to his problems any better than his parents; none of the kids can.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Parts
of the film do seem dated. I’m sure the obvious homosexual tension between
Plato and Jim was a lot more shocking in 1955, whereas today it’s more
normalized. Plato’s unreciprocated crush is still sad, especially seeing him
hanging around while Jim and Judy are crawling all over each other, but it’s
not quite scandalous in this day and age.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In
general the whole white suburban leather-jacket gang trope has gotten stale. It’s
been reduced to more of a joke by <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Grease</i>
and Fonzie. But while the shock is gone it’s still a great piece of
entertainment, and the themes of disaffected youth are universal. Not to mention
the beautiful Cinemascope cinematography that gives a curve to the edges of the
screen, adding a layer of distortion to the atmosphere.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"></span>It’s
also fun for some of the little details. Seeing a 19-year old Dennis Hopper is
a surreal experience. And Dean’s famous “you’re tearing me apart” line becomes unintentionally
funnier in a world where <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Room</i>
exists. To be fair, Tommy Wiseau’s impersonation is spot on; he just doesn’t have
the suaveness or inner-turmoil to pull it off like Dean.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Score:
81 (Good)</span></b></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08004625929657399742noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3503897480257883782.post-27565536716405213892013-11-13T18:06:00.001-05:002013-11-13T18:09:30.789-05:00Stella Maris<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Stella Maris (1918) | dir. Marshall Neilan | 80 min.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Stella
Maris (Mary Pickford, in one of her famous dual roles) is a young girl who,
unable to walk, is kept bedridden by her aunt and uncle who lovingly shelter
her from the evils of the world. A sign hangs above her door that reads “<i>All
unhappiness and world wisdom leave outside. Those without smiles need not
enter.</i>”<i> </i><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Stella is kept
completely ignorant of the crime and poverty that surrounds her, and her visitors
are tightly controlled so that they won’t spoil the façade.</span></span><br />
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in an orphanage in the town outside Stella’s mansion. She is hired by
Louise Risca (Marcia Manon), the alcoholic wife of journalist John Risca (Conway
Tearle), to help out around the house. Louise is bitter and abusive, ultimately
hospitalizing Unity after beating her. She is sent to prison for three years
and in his guilt John adopts Unity.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">At the same time, Stella undergoes surgery to allow
her to walk again. It’s a success, although it takes three years for her to
fully recover. John, a friend of her aunt and uncle, meets Stella and
falls in love with her, but they’re unable to marry because of his marriage to
Louise. Divorce is never mentioned as an option. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">I was a bit taken aback by what dire lives these
characters live. Even though Stella comes from wealth, having been
shrouded from the truth about the world sends her into a depression when she is
finally able to walk and experience society for herself. It’s a horrifying
prospect, not unlike the allegory of the cave, to be lied to for your entire
life. She finds sanctuary in her love for John, but becomes suicidal when she
learns he has a wife. She tells him “I no long pity the blind! All the ugliness
of life is shut away from them.” </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Unity, coming from nothing, is ecstatic to be living with
John, but can’t help falling in love with him. Unable to have him for herself
she resolves to murder Louise so that he may at least be free to marry Stella.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">It’s a dark, grimy world with an insidious tone and
ramshackle scenery. <i>Stella Maris</i> a film that wrestles with whether
ignorance truly is bliss, but ultimately it’s the evil in the world that
reminds us of why love must be treasured.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Score: 76 (Good)</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></b></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08004625929657399742noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3503897480257883782.post-63388233607501786552013-11-11T13:47:00.000-05:002013-12-11T01:47:16.494-05:00I Have Some Mean Things to Say about Sharknado<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Rubbish. Garbage. Trash.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"></span> </span></div>
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degree of effort.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Sharknado</i> is the product of making a
film based on a title. Its tagline is “Enough Said,” as if the absurdity of its
concept is all it needs. It is born of the millennial
wink-wink nudge-nudge irony where filmmakers feel obliged to let the audience
know they’re in on the joke.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The
acting is trash. The script is trash. The effects are trash. The directing is
trash. The editing is trash. The lighting is trash. The sound design is trash.
Trash. Trash Trash Trash.</span></div>
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it to the ground and spread the ashes in the sewers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">When we examine <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Godzilla</i> critically the general approach is to discuss how the
giant monster, brought to life by radiation from atomic bombs, represents Japan’s
post-World War II anxieties about nuclear war. Japan is the only country in the
world to be subjected to an atomic bomb attack, and the result of that bombing was
catastrophic. As the world trudged forward into the nuclear age Japan was still
coping with the fallout from Hiroshima and Nagasaki.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In
Ishir</span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">ō
Honda’s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Godzilla</i> a giant lizard beast
is awakened by nuclear testing. It begins to wreak havoc on Tokyo, spewing atomic
fire from its mouth and crushing buildings. It’s a painfully clear metaphor for
the nuclear attacks experienced nine years earlier. To a Japanese audience in
1954 it was horrifying and struck close to home.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">But there is an angle to
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Godzilla</i>’s commentary that is often
missed by Western audiences. In the United States we are well aware of the
attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, but woefully ignorant that it was only the
ending to a two-year long firebombing campaign launched by the allied forces.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Tokyo during the 1943 firebombing</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">In 1943 the United
States began this campaign by bombing Tokyo. 1,665 tons of bombs were dropped
on the city, igniting a massive firestorm. It is estimated that 83,793 people
were killed, with over 40,000 more injured. This was only the beginning as the
U.S. began firebombing every major Japanese city in the same manner, and after that
moved onto the smaller cities.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Unlike the United
States, Japan’s cities were mostly based on wooden architecture. They burned ferociously.
Future U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara helped to oversee these
bombings. In the 2003 documentary <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Fog
of War </i>McNamara discusses this campaign and ultimately admits “we were war
criminals.” Hundreds of thousands of civilians are estimated to have died.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Now, flash forward to
1954. Imagine being a Japanese citizen and seeing this on a cinema screen:</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08004625929657399742noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3503897480257883782.post-89732940624058191082013-08-22T00:49:00.003-04:002013-11-13T17:31:50.821-05:00The Coen Brothers and Desks<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><br />Have you ever noticed the Coen brothers use desks in
their films extraordinarily often?</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">A
desk is a great device for a scene. It not only puts a physical divider between
two people, it puts the person behind the desk in a position of power. Sitting
behind a desk one feels safer, stronger.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">In <i>The Big Lebowski,</i> The Dude is constantly
disenfranchised when sitting before a desk. The chief of Malibu police throws a
mug at him from behind a desk. The man at the funeral home attempts to charge
him hundreds of dollars for an urn while sitting behind a desk. The big
Lebowski himself insults The Dude and refuses to compensate him for the soiled
rug. The nature of The Dude’s character allows him to shrug these incidents
off, but he is never dominant when in front of a man behind a desk.</span></span></span></div>
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opposition to the studio executive he is forced to work for, but he is even in
opposition to his typewriter. Barton sits at his own desk, ready to work, but
his writer’s block stops him. The desk becomes a block between himself and his
creativity.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">In <i>Fargo</i>, Jerry Lundegaard feels safe and
self-assured as he boldly lies behind his desk. Lying is his business, seeing
as how he’s a used car salesman. The desk gives him power over his clients, his
office is his element. His cockiness will be his downfall. Later when he is on
the phone with Carl Showalter he finds himself dominated. He is in his office
but his desk has no power over the phone. Finally, when Marge Gunderson exposes
Jerry’s lies he flees from his office, abandoning his desk and showing his true
vulnerability.</span></span></span></div>
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office with an offer to find his kidnapped son. It is Nathan’s desk, but
Leonard places his feet on it. He defies the desk, and will not allow Nathan to
control him. Nathan refuses to accept Leonard’s offer. Leonard pays Nathan as
much respect as he paid his desk and sets out in search of the child anyway, so
that he may sell it on the black market.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">In <i>No Country for Old Men</i>, the man who
hires Anton Chigurh to recover the briefcase is murdered at his desk by Chigurh.
The power is reversed. The desk did nothing to protect the man. This action shows
just how powerfully evil Chigurh truly is.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">In <i>A Serious Man</i>, the supposed power of the
desk is subverted. The desk is shown to be but the illusion of power. Larry
Gopnik searches for meaning, but the rabbis who sit behind desks offer no good
answers. When Larry is at his own desk his hand is forced by his student to
alter grades. The teachers and figureheads who sit behind these desks may have
knowledge, but lack true wisdom.</span></span></span><br />
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control, and the one behind it must retain theirs. It is a symbol that immediately
registers with the audience. We all know the feeling of powerlessness when
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08004625929657399742noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3503897480257883782.post-2672241081231147062013-07-26T01:25:00.000-04:002013-11-12T23:43:31.189-05:00My Top 50 FilmsSometimes when I'm bored I make lists. But always, without fail, the hardest of all is to make a list of my favorite movies. There's so many and I can barely limit myself. At the same time I feel like I haven't seen enough films to say any X amount stand above the rest. And then there's the issue that depending on how I'm feeling one film might stand out more than another. Sometimes I may leave off something that I love but just haven't seen in awhile to refresh my memory. It's pure subjectivity. I mean, what's the difference between slot 35 and 36 anyway?<br />
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But, I decided to have another go at it. So here, ranked, is my list of my Top 50 favorite films. There's stuff I had to cut (Pulp Fiction, Frenzy) but overall I'm happy with it. It's not an exhaustive sampling of my movie taste, there's plenty of genres and filmmakers I've left off. And very well if I do this list again in a year, I wouldn't be surprised to find that it's drastically different. But at this very moment, these are the movies that feel right to me.<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">1. 2001: A Space Odyssey</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>2. Aguirre, the Wrath of God</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">(1972, dir. Werner Herzog)</span></span></div>
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<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qqJHRUn8kzA/UfH59nVvTWI/AAAAAAAAAIA/E0kxa5Pfh-g/s1600/Taxi+Driver.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="216" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qqJHRUn8kzA/UfH59nVvTWI/AAAAAAAAAIA/E0kxa5Pfh-g/s400/Taxi+Driver.png" width="400" /> </a></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">3. Taxi Driver</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">(1976, dir. Martin Scorsese)</span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">4. Eraserhead</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">5. House</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">7. Vertigo</span></b> </div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><b><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></b><span style="font-size: small;">(1958, dir. Alfred Hitchcock)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>8. The Passion of Joan of Arc</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">(1928, dir. Carl Theodor Dreyer)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">(1962, dir. Roman Polanski)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">(1997, dir. Paul Thomas Anderson)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">(1932, dir. Carl Theodor Dreyer)</span></span><b><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">(2004, dir. Wes Anderson)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">(1954, dir. Federico Fellini)</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>18. It's Such a Beautiful Day</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">(2012, dir. Don Hertzfeldt)</span><b> </b></span> </div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>19. American Movie</b></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">(1999, dir. Chris Smith)</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>20. The Rocky Horror Picture Show</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">(1975, dir. Jim Sharman)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>21. Deliverance</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">(1972, dir. John Boorman)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">(1950, dir. Billy Wilder)</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>23. El Topo</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">(1970, dir. Alejandro Jodorowsky)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">(1968, dir. Bob Rafelson)</span></span></div>
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<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-A89upZb7AKg/UfH5vVeid1I/AAAAAAAAAEk/7EC86QG10Q0/s1600/Female+Trouble.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="217" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-A89upZb7AKg/UfH5vVeid1I/AAAAAAAAAEk/7EC86QG10Q0/s400/Female+Trouble.png" width="400" /> </a></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>25. Female Trouble</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">(1974, dir. John Waters)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">(1984, dir. Jim Jarmusch)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">(1933, dir. Merian C. Cooper & Ernest B. Shoedsack)</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>28. Persona</b></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">(1966, dir. Ingmar Bergman)</span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">(1961, dir. Alain Resnais)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">(1989, dir. Jay Levey)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">(1959, dir. Alfred Hitchcock)</span></span></div>
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<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-HVXqO_LhxGo/UfH5r4m1IDI/AAAAAAAAAD0/-x0Snvgwuh4/s1600/Citizen+Kane.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="239" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-HVXqO_LhxGo/UfH5r4m1IDI/AAAAAAAAAD0/-x0Snvgwuh4/s320/Citizen+Kane.png" width="320" /></a><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">(1941, dir. Orson Welles)</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">(1963, dir. Peter Brook)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">(1965, dir. Russ Meyer)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">(1997, dir. Werner Herzog)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">(1956, dir. John Ford)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">(2008, dir. Steve McQueen)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">(1987, dir. Joel Coen & Ethan Coen)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">(1967, dir. Stuart Rosenberg)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">(1960, dir. Jean-Luc Godard)</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">(1975, dir. Steven Spielberg)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">(1970, dir. Albert Maysles, David Maysles & Charlotte Zwerin)</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">(1974, dir. John Cassavetes)</span></span></div>
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Ultimately any "Best of" list is opinion, and mine is no different. I've seen a lot of different lists online of the "best" eighties films, but they seem to all revolve around the same set of movies. Labyrinth, Die Hard, Empire Strikes Back, Raiders of the Lost Ark, etc. Sure, those are all great films (except Labyrinth, fight me), but those lists get boring after awhile. So this is a list of my favorite movies from the 80's, and therefore to me they're the best.</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">(1989, dir. Jay Levey)</span><b> </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">(1981, dir. Brian De Palma)</span><b> </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">(1987, dir. Sam Raimi)</span><b> </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">(1987, dir. Joel & Ethan Coen)</span><b> </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">(1982, dir. Paul Bartel)</span><b> </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">(1988, dir. Penelope Spheeris)</span><b> </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">(1984, dir. Jim Jarmusch)</span><b> </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">(1984, dir. James Cameron)</span><b> </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">(1986, dir. David Cronenberg)</span><b> </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>11. The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">(1989, dir. Peter Greenaway)</span><b> </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">(1983, dir. David Cronenberg)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">(1982, dir. Godfrey Reggio)</span><b> </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">(1984, dir. Jonathan Demme)</span><b> </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">(1980, dir. Stanley Kubrick)</span><b> </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">(1982, dir. Werner Herzog)</span><b> </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>2. Blue Velvet</b><span style="font-size: small;"><br />(1986, dir. David Lynch)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>1. The King of Comedy</b><span style="font-size: small;"><br />(1983, dir. Martin Scorsese)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Honorable Mentions:</b> Aliens, Sans soleil, The Blues Brothers, Repo Man, Heathers, This Is Spinal Tap, Robocop, Big Trouble In Little China, Full Metal Jacket, Broken Noses<br /><br /><b>Other Good 80's Movies: </b>Thief, The 'Burbs, Jean de Florette, Pink Floyd The Wall, Raging Bull, The Road Warrior, Born In Flames, Ghostbusters, Shogun Assassin, Airplane!</span></span></div>
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something admirably primal about boxing. It’s a pure and honest sport. Two men
agree to step into a ring and pummel each other to their last breath. It’s that
simple. What boxing does is that it seems to speak to our innermost desires. It’s
the unleashed Id, running wild and delighting in the blood and ruin the sport
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">In
order to box, one must be able to withstand as much pain as he can deliver. The
boxer must be ruthless, but calculating and strategic. It’s a sport that simultaneously
combines our most primitive tendencies towards senseless violence and the most
advanced, tactical parts of our minds. But most importantly, the boxer must be
willing to self-destruct.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Ian
Palmer’s <i>Knuckle</i> is a film that gets
to the heart of the sport. This documentary, filmed over the course of twelve
years from 1997 to 2009, chronicles the decades-long feud between three Irish traveler
families – The Quinn McDonaghs, The Joyces, and The Nevins’. Despite all being
cousins, the longstanding feud regularly leads to challenges for bare-knuckle
boxing matches.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Unlike
professional boxing these bare-knuckle fights are fought outdoors and without
rounds. They merely go until one man knocks out the other or one man gives up.
There are referees to enforce a clean fight but otherwise it’s purely a raw and
personal brawl between two men who fiercely hate each other.</span></span></div>
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instigate the fights, they only accept the challenges. To them boxing seems
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contrast, the Joyce family, lead by the aging “Big Joe” Joyce, seems to breathe
boxing. Big Joe is a loud and rough figure akin to a WWE wrestler with his constant
threats and tirades. When it’s his turn to fight, Big Joe unleashes a flurry of
punches, protecting his title as “King of the Travelers.” </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Unlike
many boxing movies, Palmer doesn’t shy away from the fights. In fact, he shows
them in their entirety. Many films tend to only use the fighting as a backdrop
for character studies (<i>Raging Bull</i>, <i>Rocky</i>), but <i>Knuckle</i> is as much about boxing as it is about the families
involved. There is a gaze during the matches that makes them exciting. They
could be horrifying, but they’re just the opposite. </span></span></div>
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involved. There is as much of the film about the fights as there is about how
this feud has destroyed the relationships between these people. When he
interviews the wives of the boxers they all express a desire for the fighting to
end and for the families to finally get along again. Palmer also focuses on the
children, especially the young boys who have grown up watching their fathers
fight and are learning to continue the cycle of violence.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">But
even Palmer is not immune. Through narration he finally realizes that at some
point he had stopped caring about the documentary and had let himself become a
part of this bare-knuckle boxing culture. He was no longer going to the fights
for the film; he was going because he enjoyed them. And I think that speaks to
boxing’s primal appeal. Even those who recognize it’s horror and devastation
are still drawn in. He can acknowledge that this feud has caused endless
damage, but even he can’t deny the seduction.</span></span></span></div>
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at its core that is what <i>Knuckle</i>, and
really boxing itself, is about. It’s watching destruction in action. But <i>Knuckle</i> goes far enough to show what
happens when it bleeds outside the ring and it’s no longer fun.</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-HKYGx94a5hI/UVZ8D06bLpI/AAAAAAAAAOQ/nktlLhd4kbE/s1600/SpringBreakers.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-HKYGx94a5hI/UVZ8D06bLpI/AAAAAAAAAOQ/nktlLhd4kbE/s320/SpringBreakers.jpg" width="215" /></a><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Harmony Korine has pulled one of the greatest bait
and switches in film history. The advertising for <i>Spring Breakers</i> was expertly designed to lure in teenagers and
twenty-somethings with the promise of a wild T&A party movie a la <i>Project X</i>. Well, in a way it delivers on
that promise. It gives audiences the nudity and the chaos that is expected from
a film like this, but it doesn’t feel quite right. It feels dirty and wrong, as
grimy as the drops in its dubstep soundtrack. It’s a college T&A movie, but
it’s not the one most people want.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">The
film opens with four college-aged friends, Faith (Selena Gomez), Candy (Vanessa
Hudgens), Brit (Ashley Benson), and Cotty (Rachael Korine) trying to figure out
how to raise the money they need to go to Florida for spring break. While Faith
attends Bible study (and is warned of how wild Candy and Brit are), the other
three rob a local restaurant and make off with enough cash to hop a bus to St. Petersburg. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">After
a night of partying the group is arrested for possession of cocaine, but they are
quickly let go when the evidence doesn’t hold. They then meet rapper/drug
dealer Alien (James Franco) who promises to show them a good time, but instead
acts as the gateway to a criminal underworld.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Make
no mistake <i>Spring Breakers</i> is an
arthouse film. To those familiar with writer/director Harmony Korine this is no
surprise, but for those who have never heard of him I’ll just say that he’s
responsible for a movie called <i>Trash
Humpers</i> (and that title should be taken literally).</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">One
aspect of the film that has turned off a lot of audiences is that it plays out
like a deranged nightmare. The editing is choppy and nonlinear, full of droning
narration repeating phrases like “Pretend it’s like a video game” and “spring break
forever” ad nauseum, digging them deeper into your skin with each reframe. It’s
like something made by the Bizarro World version of Terrence Malick.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">But
the editing serves a purpose. Franco’s constant whispering of “spring break”
casts a dark specter over the film. Spring break becomes this sinister concept
where hypersexuality reigns and oppresses. Women seductively suck on lollipops,
men hold beer bottles to their crotches, everybody’s drunk and looking for sex.
But to the audience it isn’t titillating. It feels disgusting and perverted.
Were this exact footage being shown on MTV or in a <i>Girls Gone Wild</i> video it would be praised and even enforced. But in
<i>Spring Breakers</i> it becomes dark and
twisted. The veil covering the rape culture of spring break is torn down and
revealed for what it is.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><i>Spring Breakers</i> may be the most purely
American film of the 21<sup>st</sup> century thus far. It’s an exploration into
excess and greed that shows a depravity that makes <i>Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas</i> look like a family vacation. Korine
holds a mirror to us, the college kids who partake in this yearly ritual of
hedonism and debauchery. Of sex and violence. He shoves our faces in our mess.
We made our bed and now we must sleep in it.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Some
may disagree with me on this, and I wholly understand it. I’ve read several reviews
from critics who found the film to be incredibly sexist, and I’m sure plenty
more people are going to see it and feel the same way. Harmony Korine has
always been as aware of social issues (as in <i>Kids</i>) as he has been intrigued and in admiration of those who
indulge in their most primal instincts (the aforementioned <i>Trash Humpers</i>), and <i>Spring
Breakers </i>is a bit of both.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">The
characters of Candy and Brit are sociopaths who show no remorse for their
actions. They always want to dig deeper and deeper into the underworld of
spring break. They lead their friends, and the audience, on a <i>Heart of Darkness</i>-esque descent into
Hell, each step of the way peeling back another layer of the sex-violence
conglomeration.</span></span></div>
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film’s climax feels like the bastard child of <i>Girls Gone Wild</i>, <i>Grand Theft
Auto</i>, and Michael Mann. “Pretend it’s like a video game” becomes words to
live by. “Spring break forever” becomes a mantra. Candy and Brit are the people
that the spring break lifestyle is made for. They’re the ones without empathy,
who care nothing about the dignity of others, who have no regard for human
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it’s a good thing that <i>Spring Breakers</i>
has been misrepresented in its advertising. Those going in hoping for something
fun and light are going to be sordidly disappointed and they may not know why.
They’ll say it’s because of the unconventional free-flow narrative. They’ll say
it’s because it’s too dark and creepy. But hopefully it’s because they’ve
finally been shown the true darkness hidden within the culture they’ve come to
idolize, and that takes time to digest.</span></span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3503897480257883782.post-43031284626196829512013-03-12T19:40:00.000-04:002013-03-12T19:41:35.742-04:00Idea for a Film FestivalStrike (1925)<br />
Metropolis (1927)<br />
Modern Times (1936)<br />
On the Waterfront (1954)<br />
Salt of the Earth (1954)<br />
Harlan County, USA (1976)<br />
Killer of Sheep (1977)<br />
Blue Collar (1978)<br />
Matewan (1987)<br />
Office Space (1999)Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3503897480257883782.post-33068705219193896012013-01-16T01:47:00.001-05:002013-11-14T09:53:45.770-05:00The Legend of Bigfoot<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<![endif]--><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Obsession.
It’s a force of immense power that has guided men to greatness, and driven them
to madness. Some strive for wealth, others pine for love. Many become devoted
to art, music, and literature. And then there are people like professional
animal tracker Ivan Marx, who spent his life looking for something else,
something thought unattainable. He wanted Bigfoot.<br /><br />Marx’s
long struggle to prove the existence of the legendary Sasquatch is documented
in the obscure 1976 film <i>The Legend of
Bigfoot, </i>which can be watched on Youtube. It’s a curio of a movie, like something found off the last exit of
a desert highway. Watching it feels like a dream, as if this movie can’t possibly
exist and it’s all the result of some weird delirium, and yet there it is.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><br />Not
much is known about the film. It was put together from footage shot by Ivan
Marx himself by director-for-hire Harry Stuart Winer, whose other credits
include several episodes of <i>Veronica Mars</i>
and <i>Dawson’s Creek</i>. </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">As
Marx begins the narration which encompasses the entire movie, he tells the
audience that the film chronicles the past ten years of his life, which has
been spent tirelessly globetrotting in an attempt to document incontrovertible
proof of Bigfoot’s existence. Ten years. A decade. Marx’s journey is fueled by
an unnatural mania. It’s the perfect mixture of obsession and insanity that has
the makings of a Werner Herzog protagonist.</span><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">It becomes clear that
this is a man who is not only attempting to prove something to the world, but is
trying to prove something to himself. He often expresses self-doubt, even
questioning his own sanity at times. He will become energetic over what is most
certainly undeniable footage of Bigfoot, only for it to be revealed as a bear. When
discussing the experts who claim there’s no sufficient evidence, he becomes
bitter, speaking with venom. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><br />Eventually he comes to
the conclusion that Bigfoot must be a migratory animal. Following the path, he
is led to Alaska, where natives tell him bizarre stories about the creature,
such as the time a hunter killed a Sasquatch only to have its spirit come back
to bring its wrath upon the people. Rivers of blood flowed from the sky turning
the snow red and the “battle of a thousand warriors” was fought.<br /><br />At times Marx seems to
lose his direction. Much of the footage is of various wildlife. There’s a
minutes long sequence of a squirrel attempting to pull another dead squirrel
out of a road, edited so that it appears that other forest animals are watching.
Marx also has a way of trailing off into philosophical rambles on nature, the
frontier, and life – but somehow always managing to connect it back to Bigfoot.
More than once does a deep discussion of his own life suddenly leap into
confirming the existence of Sasquatch.<br /><br />It’s almost impossible
to judge <i>The Legend of Bigfoot</i> on the
merits of its filmmaking because the clumsiness of the production feels
entwined with its subject. It’s a personal journey, a window into the mind and
emotions of a man who has devoted his life to Bigfoot. When we finally see the
beast on camera it’s ethereal, even dreamlike. It’s as if I have been fully
absorbed, in as much awe as Marx. It doesn't matter that it's fake, because with the entirety of his being Ivan Marx believes it is real. To him the footage is the evidence he needs to prove the experts wrong. We don't know if he just got so fed up with being called crazy that he staged the scenes himself or if he is being duped by somebody else. It's kind of beyond the point. What this film does is open you up to the world of a strange and dedicated man. By the end, despite all scientific evidence, despite his dumbfounding jumps in logic, you want to believe with him. And it’s beautiful, truly beautiful.</span></span></div>
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Since it's Veteran's Day weekend, I thought I'd share this. The film is called <i>Winning Your Wings</i>. Made in 1942, it was directed by John Huston and is essentially James Stewart telling the audience to join the Air Force. It's classic American propaganda.</div>
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What's striking is you can see the ways the film attempts to manipulate it's viewers. Clearly the target audience is men in their late teens to their mid-twenties, and so how do you go about winning them over? Well, you make them feel special. Stewart talks right to the audience, as if he's addressing you. Yes - You! And don't forget about all the pretty ladies you'll woo with your air force pin. </div>
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But what sets <i>Winning Your Wings</i> aside is that it's a fantastic film in it's own right. The cinematography is phenomenal, particularly the flight choreography. There's one shot in particular near the end where lines of planes appear out of the fog. It's mesmerizing - like T.E. Lawrence emerging from the desert. </div>
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The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary, and frankly, it deserved the nod. It may be have been a recruitment tool, but it's engaging and enjoyable nonetheless. The way the in-the-air shots are framed, the way eager young cadets are so effectively painted as heroes, the way Stewart breaks down at the end into a flurry of rage. Plus, you've got to love the way the filling station attendant reacts when Stewart tells him he "could grow wings any minute."<br />
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Aside from his hardcore fans, most people are likely unaware of Frank Zappa’s dabbling in film. In the early 1970’s, he teamed up with director Tony Palmer to produce a film that would show what happens to a band after they’ve been on tour for too long. What came out of that collaboration is a cacophony of rainbow nightmares and incomprehensible skits.<br />
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<i>200 Motels</i> stars Zappa’s backing band, The Mothers of Invention, playing versions of themselves as they go stir crazy in a small town named Centerville, desperately trying to get laid and/or drunk (or as they put it, trying to find that magic elixir).<br />
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On top of that, it also features Theodore Bikel as Rance Muhammitz, a man who has “many names” and might also be Satan, Keith Moon of The Who as a groupie dressed like the Flying Nun, and Ringo Starr as Larry the Large Dwarf who spends his time impersonating Frank Zappa.<br />
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Zappa himself only appears in the film a few times, never speaking or singing. However, the band members do believe he’s an omnipresent figure who is always watching them through an empty beer bottle.<br />
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The actual narrative of the film is made up of various skits, which look like they were shot after hours on the set of a PBS kids show, live concert footage, and general freak outs where deciphering what is happening is pretty much impossible. Nothing makes sense. The combination of screeching music and screeching visuals are enough to induce a migraine. It’s like something out of Videodrome <br />
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It manages to keep that visual style up throughout the whole thing. This works at times, but after awhile it wears out its welcome.<br />
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Most bizarre head trip films tend to give the audience something to hold on to while watching it, like a floating piece of the wreckage after the ship sinks. That stray sense of relatable normality or recognizable narrative that makes the movie accessible despite its psychedelic nature. <i>200 Motels</i> has barely anything resembling that. The entire time you’re wildly grabbing at the air trying not to drown in its absolute chaos.<br />
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Despite frenzied visuals and bizarre storylines, films like <i>Hausu</i> or <i>The Holy Mountain</i> work because they give you relatable characters and create a world full of images that are at least comprehensible. <i>200 Motels</i> is what happens if you throw spin art in a blender.<br />
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It’s not all bad though. There’s many times where the film does manage to work, even if only for a scene or two before getting lost again. The concert sequences are highlights, and are really when the visual style works the best. There’s also a really funny animated bit halfway through about a guy trying to get drunk and high, delivered to the audience under the guise of a dental hygiene cartoon.<br />
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If the screenshots intrigued you, then <i>200 Motels</i> is certainly worth a look. But don’t expect any sort of masterpiece, or any sort of plot for that matter.<br />
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200 Motels <i>is currently available to watch on Netflix Instant. A DVD exists but it appears to be a collector’s item.</i>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3503897480257883782.post-79824711328952081522012-05-23T00:48:00.001-04:002013-11-13T17:31:03.997-05:00Breeding the Super Soldier: Captain America as a Propaganda Piece<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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In all likelihood I’m not the first person to realize and write about this (after all the film has been out for almost a year now) but <i>Captain America: The First Avenger</i> is military propaganda at its finest. It seems that in recent years a New Wave of propaganda films has begun. Blockbuster films like <i>G.I. Joe</i> and <i>Act of Valor</i>, which glorify the American military, are becoming more and more commonplace, and <i>Captain America</i> is just another helping of militaristic, patriotism-inducing images.<br />
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I really shouldn’t be surprised that a movie about a man who is dressed in the American flag is being used to glorify the military, but at the same time I am. I like Captain America as a character, but I’ve always been more interested in him as a conflicted hero. Someone who stands for everything America is supposed to stand for - all those ideals fed to him by Fourth of July parades and the Pledge of Allegiance, but is then forced deal with the reality of an oppressive and corrupt government that has bastardized the stars and stripes and no longer represents the morals that it once stood for.<br />
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<i>Captain America: The First Avenger</i> is instead ripped right from a 1940s war serial. It returns the character to his original time and once again utilizes him for the exact reason he was manufactured in the first place – to instill in young children a strong pro-America, pro-military mindset.<br />
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<i>Captain America</i> feels like it wouldn’t be out of place in a World War II era movie theater, being played right after the newsreel telling audiences about whatever military victory happened that week. The entire film is soaked in propaganda. In fact, what impresses me the most is the movie’s earnestness. It knows it’s a piece of propaganda, and in a post-modern musical montage, the character within the film becomes a propaganda piece himself.<br />
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In the film, he travels with a troupe of showgirls performing a song and dance bit while encouraging his audience to buy war bonds. So within a film designed to win the hearts and minds of young Americans, Captain America is being used to win the hearts and minds of fictional young Americans.<br />
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This acknowledgment of the movie’s doctrine is taken even further by the filmmakers. After the final scene, what is the first image flashed across the screen, even before the “Directed by” credits appear? Uncle Sam saying “I Want You”. The credits sequence may very well be the most important part of the film; it’s made up of authentic American propaganda posters from the war. It’s almost as if the movie is telling us, don’t think of this as a film, think of this as a recruitment tool.<br />
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But ultimately, what drives the pro-American message home is how unbelievably pure and relatable Steve Rogers, the man who becomes Captain America, is. Anybody who has ever felt weak or bullied will see themselves in him. But in addition to the meek little figure that he is, he may very well be the most cartoonishly noble man to ever walk the Earth. He stands up for what he believes in no matter what the consequences, he’s kind, likeable, and he’s even willing to die for his country. Hell, for the first half an hour of the film his only real character trait is that he wants to join the military. So what is the message to little kids? If you want to emulate Captain America, you need to join the Army.<br />
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And, if you do enlist, you’ll no longer be small and defenseless. When he reunites with his best friend Bucky, Bucky is amazed at Steve’s physique. He asks him “What happened to you?” Captain America’s response? “I joined the Army”.<br />
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It should be noted that, in a manner befitting of propaganda films, the horror of battle is casually glanced over in order to glorify America’s superior strength and nobility. Death isn’t depicted as particularly gruesome or painful – instead, thanks to sci-fi energy weapons, it’s just a quick disintegration and it’s done with. There’s no suffering in Marvel’s World War II. During several battle sequences, disposable American soldiers run into combat with the evil HYDRA’s enemy troops. But while the camera focuses on Captain America taking out enemy henchmen, soldiers are consistently killed in the background. They’re hit a by a blue laser, then they’re gone. That’s it. No blood, no agony. Just a split second of screaming and it’s done with.<br />
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These background soldiers are nothing. Nobody in the movie pays attention to the men dying around them. Nobody mourns the loss of fellow soldiers after the battle. The film can’t ignore that death during war is inevitable, so it instead downplays it. It makes it something that just sort of happens in the background while everyone in the audiences projects themselves onto Captain America. Captain America isn’t the nameless extra who’s shot, killed and then forgotten, he’s the one riding a cool motorcycle and bashing people’s faces in with a shield.<br />
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It had potential. It really did. It could have been a deep satire of old jingoistic war films that tried to rally everyone into the American Bandwagon. Instead it proudly joins their ranks, bringing old time conservative ideals to modern audiences. Should you think independently? Not according to Captain America: The First Avenger. When the Red Skull tells Cap that his reign will be a world without flags, the good Captain tells him it’s not a world he’d want to live in. So join the Army and die for your flag. It’s all that Steve Rogers wanted to do with his life, why shouldn’t it be what you want too?<br />
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I wouldn’t let a child watch this movie. It would be dangerous to their development. <br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3503897480257883782.post-91196413280095382722012-03-19T19:01:00.006-04:002013-11-13T17:31:23.334-05:00On Old Hollywood, Nostalgia, and Sunset Boulevard<span style="font-style: italic;">“It isn't necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice. There are two other possibilities: one is paperwork, and the other is nostalgia.” – Frank Zappa</span><br />
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<span style="font-style: italic;">“I am big. It’s the pictures that got small.” – Norma Desmond</span><br />
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<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_xNNAKEvFAk/T2e70GNT39I/AAAAAAAAAIE/Tin2s2LBkq0/s1600/SunsetBlvdPoster.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5721748355291537362" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_xNNAKEvFAk/T2e70GNT39I/AAAAAAAAAIE/Tin2s2LBkq0/s400/SunsetBlvdPoster.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 400px; margin: 0 10px 10px 0; width: 265px;" /></a>Upon first seeing Billy Wilder’s <span style="font-style: italic;">Sunset Boulevard</span>, Louis B. Mayer, then head of MGM studios, screamed at Wilder for attacking the town that made him who he is (to which he simply responded “Fuck you”). But while Wilder prospered in Hollywood, going on to be remembered as one of the greatest directors of all time, <span style="font-style: italic;">Sunset Boulevard</span> isn’t about himself, it is about paying respects to the former giants who built the city, but were then tossed aside and forgotten.<br />
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There is no question that Hollywood is a brutal town, with everybody only using everybody else to further their own careers. It’s like that today, and it was like that in the fifties. If you’re not profitable you’re out, and what’s profitable changes every year. The people who keep up with the times stay afloat, but those who don’t are likely to vanish amongst the thousands of other nobodies. And there begins the tale of <span style="font-style: italic;">Sunset Boulevard</span>’s has-been superstar Norma Desmond (played by silent film veteran Gloria Swanson). <br />
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As William Holden’s chillingly blunt narration informs us, Norma used to be the queen of Hollywood. She was the superstar everyone wanted a piece of, receiving thousands of fan letters a day and working with only the greatest directors in the business. But by the time <span style="font-style: italic;">Sunset Boulevard</span> takes place that was over twenty years ago, and the present day is 1950. Silent film is dead, and the idea of a “Talkie” is no longer a novelty, but the standard. She spends her days by herself brooding over how today’s movies don’t have the same heart as when she was acting, trying desperately to hold on to her former celebrity. Even if you sympathize with the character, it’s hard to not admit that she is, when all is said and done, pathetic. Her living room is adorned with photos of herself from her glory days, and she is more than happy to spend her afternoon watching an old silent film – starring her. Norma is forever stagnant, slowly deteriorating in her home while the world moves on without her.<br />
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Following Norma, <span style="font-style: italic;">Sunset Boulevard</span> becomes a cautionary tale against the notion of living in the past, a word to the wise about the destructive power of nostalgia. She is someone who refuses change, leaving her a hollow shell of a woman. She is starved for the attention that she used to be able to feast on, and now she can’t accept a world where she doesn’t have this. She had it in the 1920s, so that is where she’d rather live.<br />
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But as the film shows, this is impossible. As I said before, Hollywood is not a nurturing entity. It will leave you behind, and it is up to you to keep up with it. Norma was so used to being on top, she never considered that she could have it all swept out from under her feet.<br />
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Wilder’s choice to have Cecil B. DeMille appear as himself serves as a vibrant contrast against Norma. DeMille began his career as a director during the silent era, making over fifty shorts and features between 1914 and 1929. Like Norma, he easily could have been left behind when sound entered pictures, still trying to pump out silent flicks that no one wanted to see. But instead he embraced this new technology and went on to make some of his most memorable films. He never held onto the past, and as a result he achieves success. He ensures his legend lives on, while youngsters have only heard of Norma Desmond in passing. <br />
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Wilder is careful to make it clear that he doesn’t dislike the past. In fact, he makes apparent that he loves this bygone era. Just as Norma’s old coworkers flock to admire her when she crashes DeMille’s set, Wilder has the utmost respect for the classic masters like Erich von Stroheim and Gloria Swanson. But he accepts that this period of Hollywood only exists as history now. As Joe Gillis (played by William Holden) tells Norma, “There's nothing tragic about being fifty, not unless you try to be twenty-five.”<br />
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Nostalgia is a powerful and if unchecked, an unforgiving force. There may be nothing wrong with looking back fondly on an old photo album, but when you try and keep things from moving forward things become stagnant. Norma lives in a house lost in time, forever stuck in 1925. It’s just as how we today can still watch a film like <span style="font-style: italic;">Sunset Boulevard</span>, and for that hour and a half be back in 1950. But if we stop living in reality, and pretend that it’s 1950 all the time, we’ll find ourselves alone and living in a fantasy world.<br />
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