(2007) dir. Paul Greengrass
viewed: 08/29/07 at AMC Van Ness 14, SF, CA
Part three of the Bourne franchise, The Bourne Ultimatum, has been getting a lot of good reviews and good word of mouth. I liked the first one, director Doug Liman’s The Bourne Identity (2002) quite well at the time that I saw it. And I liked The Bourne [...]
Archive of entries posted on August 2007
The Bourne Ultimatum
Superbad
(2007) dir. Greg Mottola
viewed: 08/29/07 at AMC Van Ness 14, SF, CA
Often, I have noted how much of a complete sourpuss I am when it comes to comedies. I think most are terrible. Maybe it’s just true, the well-noted adage that “Dying is easy. Comedy is hard.” (attributed to the actor Sir Donald Wolfitt on [...]
The Last Laugh
(1924) dir. F. W. Murnau
viewed: 08/28/07
F. W. Murnau, the legendary director of Nosferatu (1922), Faust (1926), and Sunrise (1927), was not only an interesting figure, but one of the true masters of the silent film era. To be honest, up until this point, Nosferatu was the only film of his that I’d seen. Noted as [...]
Panic in Year Zero!
(1962) dir. Ray Milland
viewed: 08/26/07
Gotta love a movie with an exclamation point in its title!
Ray Milland directed this nuclear holocaust film, one of a handful of films that he directed. He’s much more noted as an actor, starring herein as well. Interestingly enough with Frankie Avalon as his son. This is a surprisingly good B-movie, [...]
The NeverEnding Story
(1984) dir. Wolfgang Petersen
viewed: 08/24/07
Part two of my 1980’s Fantasy double feature was The NeverEnding Story, which came out when I was 15 and developing cynacism for such things, especially such things with such godforsaken theme song by Limahl (singer of the 1980’s band Kajagoogoo for anyone too young to know or care). I never [...]
The Last Unicorn
(1982) dir. Jules Bass, Arthur Rankin, Jr.
viewed: 08/24/07
This was the first of what would be my little early 1980’s Fantasy double feature, inspired by a co-worker, who had recommended both films. Neither of which had I seen before. For this film, The Last Unicorn, it was kind of strange, as I was a pretty avid [...]
The Invasion
(2007) dir. Oliver Hirschbiegel, James McTeigue
viewed: 08/23/07 at Century San Francisco Centre, SF, CA
The fourth feature film rendering of Jack Finney’s novel The Body Snatchers in some ways, perhaps many ways, begs the question of necessity. Don Siegel’s 1956 film Invasion of the Body Snatchers seemed pretty much to hit the nail on the head, [...]
Zodiac
(2007) dir. David Fincher
viewed: 08/22/07
I’ve found director David Fincher to be one of the more interesting directors currently working in Hollywood. When he first came on the scene with Alien³ (1992), I was not impressed. I haven’t gone back to see if my feelings have changed since then regarding the film, but his subsequent films [...]
The Passenger
(1975) dir. Michelangelo Antonioni
viewed: 08/10/07
Until earlier this year, I’d never seen a Michelangelo Antonioni film. I started with Blow-Up (1966), partially because it was the film of his that I used to see throughout video stores even in the 1980’s, one of the most ubiquitous foreign films, though I had never actually watched it. There has [...]
Renaissance
(2006) dir. Christian Volckman
viewed: 08/19/07
This film was playing in England last year when I was there and then took its time to get to the states. It’s French, though for the English language release, they got voice talent, including Daniel Craig, to rework the dialogue. Dubbing is not a preferred thing for me, but doesn’t [...]
