Movies, and my thoughts on them.
Like some kind of desert island male wish-fulfillment fantasy, there seem to have been a lot of golden age Hollywood films about a guy who "reluctantly" heads out on the road with some incredibly hot …
Another one bites the dust. One day after Bergman's death, elite European director, Michelangelo Antonioni, has died as well. I'm not a superstitious man, but it seems beyond a coincidence that after my European Film …
Bergman is a director that seems to be rather out of favor these days. Pretentious, old fashioned, one note, everyone from Conan O'Brian to Woody Allen (though a huge Bergman fan himself) has taken the …
I don't like to stereotype, but…French movies are a little fruity. German films? Not the greatest komedies. Polish cinema? Heartwarming is not exactly the word I'm looking for. Each country's film output has certain indefinable …
There is a scene in Andrei Tarkovsky's The Mirror where a young child looks through a book of art. The camera is close, showing only the pages of the book and the child's hand as …
There is a strange theme in the plots of the two otherwise enjoyable movies; The Awful Truth (one of my favorite movies, as I explained in my previous blog post) and McLintock! (no masterpiece but …
Screwball comedies were a popular film genre from the 30's and 40's. The name "screwball comedy" is a pretty apt descriptor, the situations the leads found themselves in were most often quite "screwy" "wacky" "zany" …
Like the musicals of the 30s and 40s, the Marx Brothers are a more recent acquired taste for me. Years ago I saw a movie called Brain Donors (a modern version of the Marx Brothers …
At not quite 250 years old, America is a new country. As is the case with all new nations, this relative youth brings with it a lack of a unifying ideology for its inhabitants. If …
I am a pretty big fan of portraying myself as a PFC (pretentious film cock for those not in the know). I throw out names like Ozu, Bresson, Dreyer as if they are all that …