Category: Cinema
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Animated Shorts – Last Day of Summer in the Tropical Zone
(or) Gidget Puts Away her White Shoes Animated Shorts – Last Day of Summer In The Tropical Zone (or) Gidget Puts Away her White Shoes 14 x 8.75, digital painting J Kearns 2007 Lightbox enlargement We watched Gidget, which I realized, with some surprise, I’d never before seen. The long and short of this trailblazer…
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Antonioni’s “Blow Up”
This analysis has been updated extensively and republished over in the static pages portion of the website because of the number of images used.
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Windows To The Soul (If They Can Blink)
Dorothy and Dylan in Sepia, 2 Light box enlargement When we first got goldfish, it freaked me out that we had pets that didn’t blink or close their eyes when they slept. They just stared. What were they thinking? Marty still sometimes stands by the aquarium, regarding, and asks, “What are they thinking?” I don’t…
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I so loathed the film adaptation of "Bladerunner" that I didn't watch "A Scanner Darkly" until today
Stutter out a few words. That’s probably all I’ll do for a long while is stutter a few words here and there. Writing (off-blog, y’know) is, for the time being, like there’s this field filled with little shards of broken glass, some surface, some muffled by the earth, and my chore is cataloging each tiny…
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Blogging "The Angry Red Planet"
Me: A is for American International Pictures. Me Too: B is for Brass! Washington DC! Night! Tense percussion. Pentagon! Cut to…uh wait, let’s rewind the brass heading into their meeting because I’ve got to watch these guys walk around the corner in that hall again. I’m helpless to fully elucidate my delight at such bad…
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Blogging "Angel, Angel, Down We Go" aka "Cult of the Damned"
Written and directed by Robert Thom who scripted “Death Race 2000”, need I say more as an introduction? It’s a safe bet that if you loved “Death Race 2000” you’ll at least find this movie interesting, which was initially released in 1969 under the title “Angel, Angel, Down we Go”, then quickly changed to “Cult…
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When Worlds Collide (a plodding movie deserves a plodding blog, I guess)
The credits to “When Worlds Collide” are backed by flames, lots of flames, then smoke, blue streams of it against black, looking suspiciously like lurking under the bottom of the screen are positioned a number of special effects techs puffing away on packs of Camels. And for some reason, don’t ask me why, I wonder…
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Blogging Man with the Screaming Brain
OK, “Man with the Screaming Brain”. When I read a comment on Netflix that this 2005 production was a 90 minute movie that felt like 5 hours, liking the idea of 3 and 1/2 hours being added to my life, I decided… Wait, we’ve already begun. “Somewhere in Bulgaria…” appears on the black screen. Cut…