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Category: Cinema

  • Dear Santa

    For Christmas, right? Right? On top of the tree where the angel should be?

  • Some notes after viewing "Aguirre, the Wrath of God"

    [clear] Not like it’s an uncommon subject around here, but the other night Marty and I briefly discussed those big life changes where either through a sudden disruption or a slow, almost unnoticed disintegration, one opens one’s eyes to find that one is either on the edge or dead center of not just a spiritual…

  • I went to Dartmouth and all I got was a lousy nuclear holocaust

    I went to Dartmouth and all I got was a lousy nuclear holocaust

    Someone commenting on the 1951 movie “Five” over at IMDB gives it as a “superb, gripping movie you’ll never forget.” That someone wasn’t me. As a matter of fact, it’s not very often that I’ll say of an old sci-fi/horror film that I’ve chosen to write about, “Don’t waste your time!” It’s even more unlikely…

  • Go, There's Nothing to Read

    A couple have questioned, aware I was hit hard with some evil cold-flu combo, if this is why the blog has been silent. And this is partly the case, it’s partly due to that Big Ol’ Walrus of Reckoning that thwacked me hard and nailed me to the bed. My blog also went down this…

  • Ten Year Old Child Begs for Bergman’s "Seventh Seal" (Don’t They All)

    I’m not big on Bergman. Yes, I’ve got “Bergman on Bergman” on the shelf but that’s from my late teens and early twenties. However H.o.p. came across Bergman’s Seventh Seal I don’t know but a couple weeks ago he brought it up. “What’s The Seventh Seal?” he asked. Yes, I watch great movies with H.o.p.…

  • Wildly imaginative worlds of Yannick Puig

    A couple of wonderful whimsical offerings. H.o.p. loves the animations of Yannick Puig, such as the below “I Lived on the Moon”. Another is the delightful “Krapooyo”. I like Puig’s animations as well. P.S. “I Lived on the Moon” was replayed over and over here today and probably will be for a while. I showed…

  • Let's Not Watch it Again!

    Netflix has some Sundance Film Festival animated shorts from 2007. H.o.p. and I watched “Ask the Insects”, “Der Ostwind”, “In Passing” and “One Rat Short”. “Ask the Insects” was the only one he asked to see again, the effects having sparked his interest, and then before I even began to replay it he had changed…

  • Let's Watch it Again!!!

    If you happen to have one of those children who’s fascinated with knights in shining armor (as have I), and also subscribe to Netflix, may I suggest the Sundance Short Comedy, “Motion Studies: Inertia”. A man decked out in full armor attempts to move as quickly as he can as long as he can. The…

  • The 60’s Loved Snow and Radcliffe?

    Google will never spit me up in the first 500,000 pages of search results for “Valley of the Dolls” so there’s really no reason for me to write on it and if I do I can write whatever I want and not worry about coherency or having any point to make, though it’s not like…

  • I Laughed Out Loud

    Just finished watching “Love Story” for the first time since I was thirteen. When I was thirteen, it’s not that I didn’t have taste…well, no, that’s not true. But I at least already suspected this was so, and I remember being torn over the fact I liked “Love Story”. I remember, just a mere thirty…

  • "Two Women"

    "Two Women"

    At least a couple of the plot synopses I’ve found online for Vittorio de Sica’s 1960 “Two Women” are just plain wrong. So I thought I’d give my own brief (clumsy) one here, and I may have a few points wrong as I’m writing wholly from memory but not so wrong as some of the…

  • NOT FIFTEEN MINUTES

    I just spent around five minutes watching Andy Warhol eat a Whopper. I don’t consider this time wasted.