(2000) dir. Marc Singer
viewed: 01/25/04
I had been somewhat interested in seeing this film when it was playing in theaters a couple of years ago, but never got around to it. I guess that I have been on a bit of a documentary binge of late for home viewing, so I have been playing catch-up with [...]
Archive of entries posted on January 2004
Dark Days
One from the Heart
(1982) dir. Francis Ford Coppola
viewed: 01/05/04 at Castro Theater, SF, CA
The Monday Night Movie Club had been at the Castro for three or four weeks running prior to this film and after seeing the trailer for it, I was really on the fence about seeing it. It seemed like it might be ultra-stylish and cool or [...]
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
(2003) dir. Peter Jackson
viewed: 01/07/04 at Loews Theatre at the Metreon, SF, CA
The biggest epic battle of this film was the one that most people probably had with their bladders while trying to endure the full three and a half hours of this, the final segment in the much ballyhooed trilogy. It’s long. Very long. Epic [...]
Underworld
(2003) dir. Len Wiseman
viewed: 01/09/04
This movie has a concept that I would have found pretty much as cool as it gets when I was ten years old. The vampires versus the werewolves in a sort of all out war. Problem is, I haven’t been ten years old in 24 years or so. [...]
The Source
(1999) dir. Chuck Workman
viewed: 01/04/04
I remembered when this documentary came out originally and thinking that though it got sort of mixed reviews that I wanted to go and see it. With the deaths or William Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, the last of the major figures from the Beat movement had passed on. The media was [...]
Citizen Kane
(1941) dir. Orson Welles
viewed: 12/22/03 at Castro Theater, SF, CA
Citizen Kane is one of those 500-pound gorillas of cinema. It’s not as daunting as much of the European avant-garde, after all, it was made in Hollywood during the height of the “Golden Age” and has great production and verve and entertainment value that probably [...]
Modern Times
(1936) dir. Charles Chaplin
viewed: 12/29/03 at Castro Theater, SF, CA
I really have seen a shamefully small amount of silent film, despite being moderately exposed to it as a child. And despite the fact that the only silent films that I have seen are all pretty much “classics” that utterly recommend seeing more and more. [...]
Cinemania
(2002) dir. Angela Christlieb, Stephen Kijak
viewed: 01/02/04
What seemed a better film to start off my third year of the Film Diary than with a documentary about people who take cinephilia to extreme levels of psychosis? Actually, this film had been on the Monday Night Movie Club’s list but got missed out due to some cancelation [...]
