(2006) dir. Robert Altman
viewed: 07/30/07
Part two of my Lindsay Lohan arrest double feature actually took me nearly a week to get around to seeing. This film isn’t so much a “Lindsay Lohan” flick as it is a typical Robert Altman ensemble cast in which screen time is pretty equally distributed. This is, of course, Altman’s [...]
Archive of entries posted on July 2007
A Prairie Home Companion
Transformers
(2007) dir. Michael Bay
viewed: 07/26/07 at AMC Van Ness 14, SF, CA
Big summer movies and Michael Bay go right hand in hand. He makes those big action pictures that all seem to have their soundtracks recorded at that Spinal Tap 11 volume level, and he ressurrects the blazing guitar solos of the hair metal years [...]
Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen
(2004) dir. Sara Sugarman
viewed: 07/25/07
Ah, Lindsay Lohan. But only two years ago, I’d only heard her name, knew naught of her. I saw Mean Girls (2004). And somewhere along the way, I have become a celebrity news junky. So, now I’m more up on things that I just shouldn’t know and really don’t care about, but [...]
Top Hat
(1935) dir. Mark Sandrich
viewed: 07/16/07
You know the old cliche, “They don’t make ‘em like they used to”, a cliche that I invoke from time to time in different contexts, myself. Well, this is one of the times that this old cliche can be used in its perhaps most straightforward intent. That is because they do [...]
Beggars of Life
(1928) dir. William A. Wellman
viewed: 07/14/07 at the Castro Theatre, SF, CA
Screened at the Castro Theatre as part of San Francisco’s annual Silent Film Festival, director William A. Wellman’s 1928 feature about two a homeless hobo couple on the road, trying to make it to Canada and facing many of the hardships of the period is [...]
Man with a Movie Camera
(1929) dir. Dziga Vertov
viewed: 07/11/07
Dziga Vertov’s Man with a Movie Camera is one of the greatest films ever made. It’s a radical documentary film that utilizes a myriad of techniques and editing to construct a complex and multi-faceted image of Russia in the late 1920’s. But it is so much more. The film is exuberant, [...]
Bangkok Dangerous
(1999) dir. Oxide Pang Chun, Danny Pang
viewed: 07/09/07
I’d actually rented this movie five years ago but it wouldn’t play in my DVD player at the time. I queued it up, and a few DVD players later, I rented it again, particularly after noticing that there is going to be some Hollywood remake of it with [...]
Basket Case
(1982) dir. Frank Henenlotter
viewed: 07/06/07
I do take a great deal of pride in the broad range of films that I see. It’s one of the reasons that this diary is so utterly specific. I mean, I have gone to see a couple of the big summer movies and do often rent new releases on DVD, [...]
City Lights
(1931) dir. Charles Chaplin
viewed: 07/06/07 at the Castro Theatre, SF, CA
I am not sure exactly when it started, but I have been increasingly been enjoying silent films and have started to dedicate more of my rental queue to them. Though, it must be said, this hasn’t been reflected yet so much in my viewing, but it [...]
Live Free or Die Hard
(2007) dir. Len Wiseman
viewed: 07/01/07 at Century San Francisco Centre, SF, CA
This wasn’t exactly the top of my list of summer movies, but come a day to kill and a dearth of movies worth seeing and a notable desire for something unchallenging, Live Free or Die Hard wound up being just about what the doctor ordered.
The Die [...]
