(1967) dir. Seijun Suzuki
viewed: 10/29/07
Here’s a film that I’ve been meaning to see for 13 years. Nothing like finally getting around to it.
I first stumbled on Seijun Suzuki when I was living in England in 1995. I’d gotten deeply into Hong Kong cinema in the previous years and had fairly ample access to those films [...]
Archive of entries posted on October 2007
Branded to Kill
Black Sheep
(2006) dir. Jonathan King
viewed: 10/26/07
Kudos to Jonathan King and every human being in New Zealand for finally bringing us a horror movie about sheep. I’ve found livestock frightening many times myself (especially cows), but now here we have it, a movie about blood-thisty mutant sheep running around the beautiful hills of New Zealand’s farmland. And [...]
Chopper
(2001) dir. Andrew Dominik
viewed: 10/26/07
I’d seen this film on video shelves for several years, but didn’t know much about it from when it came out for some reason. But, I have been anticipating going to see writer/director Andrew Dominik’s much condemned new film The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007) and [...]
¡Que Viva Mexico!
(1979) dir. Sergei M. Eisenstein, Grigori Aleksandrov
viewed: 10/26/07
This film is an interesting artifact, a partial documentary that wraps itself around a reconstructed, never completed film by Sergei Eisenstein, one of cinema’s earliest masters and theorists. Even more unusual is that this film was shot in Mexico in 1930-1931 with a convoluted story around its funding, [...]
Ace in the Hole
(1951) dir. Billy Wilder
viewed: 10/22/07
Ace in the Hole is a film that I’d been interested in seeing for some years. Recommended by a friend when talking about writer/director Billy Wilder’s best films, I had searched in the days of VHS for naught, and now this film has recently been given the Criterion Collection treatment, and [...]
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(2007) dir. Lee Tamahori
viewed: 10/20/07
I used to live across the street from Golden Gate Park for a few years, across from the San Francisco County Fair Building, where seemingly at least once a month there would be posting for a “psychic fair”. And, according to my incredible sense of wit, I would always, always say [...]
Creep
(2004) dir. Christopher Smith
viewed: 10/15/07
Not that Severance (2006) was so excellent or anything, but I decided to go ahead and dig up writer/director Christopher Smith’s earlier film, Creep, starring Franka Potente nonetheless.
It’s a horror film set in the London Underground. Potente plays a girl who is going out to try and shag George Clooney, but ends [...]
Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla
(1974) dir. Jun Fukuda
viewed: 10/12/07
Part two of our Godzilla double feature, I selected this film as an alternate because of its popularity among Godzilla buffs. I was originally introduced to the film via its re-release as Godzilla vs. the Bionic Monster, which shows my age, I suppose. My first Godzilla film in the theater was [...]
Son of Godzilla
(1967) dir. Jun Fukuda
viewed: 10/12/07
As another installment of my exposing my kids to the world of cinema (outside of the latest animated fare to hit the big screens) was my first dip into the world of Godzilla, a childhood favorite of mine, but something of moderate obscurity to today’s youth. My children will be indeed [...]
Bug
(2006) dir. William Friedkin
viewed: 10/11/07
I’m not exactly why a film about drugged-out, hyper-paranoid people who think that their bodies are crawling with bugs sounded like something that I would want to queue up exactly. Maybe it’s all part of the make-up of my character, but the latest film from director William Friedkin (The French Connection (1971) [...]
