(1983) dir. Martha Coolidge
viewed: 08/29/08
I’ll just put this up front: Valley Girl is one of my favorite movies.
I’ve liked it since I first saw it on cable probably around 1984 or so. I had it more or less as a guilty pleasure up until 10-15 years ago when I “came out” as a fan unironically. [...]
Archive of entries posted on August 2008
Valley Girl
Street Kings
(2008) dir. David Ayers
viewed: 08/28/08
Street Kings is the latest film from director David Ayers, who made his name in Hollywood by writing about the tough streets of contemporary Los Angeles, raising his star most prominently in the Oscar Awarded Training Day (2001) which earned Denzel Washington his award and good credits to Ethan Hawke, too. I’ve [...]
The Little Mermaid
(1989) dir. Ron Clements, John Musker
viewed: 08/27/08 at The Castro Theatre, SF, CA
Seeing Disney’s The Little Mermaid at the Castro Theatre was more than just seeing The Little Mermaid. This was The Little Mermaid (Sing-along), featuring handout clappers, poppers, glowsticks, and other goodies. I reckoned it to be like The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975), [...]
High Sierra
(1941) dir. Raoul Walsh
viewed: 08/26/08
My Humphrey Bogart/John Huston fest was a little accidental, but most of these films, including High Sierra (1941), Key Largo (1948), and The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) had been in my Netflix queue for some time. High Sierra, unlike the others, I actually had seen before when I was living in England [...]
Key Largo
(1948) dir. John Huston
viewed: 08/26/08
Part two of my would-be John Huston/Humphrey Bogart 1948 double feature, part two to The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948), Key Largo is yet another of the classic Hollywood features that I’d never gotten around to seeing until now.
Set in a hotel in the titular Key Largo during a hurricaine, the [...]
Star Wars: The Clone Wars
(2008) dir. Dave Filoni
viewed: 08/23/08 at AMC Loews Metreon 16 with IMAX, SF, CA
This ain’t your father’s Star Wars, unfortunately, I could have said to my son.
Animated in a style meant to reflect the puppet-stiffness of the 1960’s cult British television kids programme, Thunderbirds, the design and animation features an aesthetic that rules severely over [...]
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
(1948) dir. John Huston
viewed: 08/22/08
Truly one of Hollywood’s classics, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, oddly enough was not a film that I had ever before seen. But recently, I had picked up a copy of the novel by B. Traven upon which the film had been based, read it, read up on it, and [...]
The Long Goodbye
(1973) dir. Robert Altman
viewed: 08/19/08 at the Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA
The most novel thing about going to see Robert Altman’s interpretation of Raymond Chandler’s The Long Goodbye was that it was in Berkeley at the Pacific Film Archive, the hallowed ground of Bay Area cinema to which I had never been before. Whereas some [...]
Nude for Satan
(1974) dir. Luigi Batzella
viewed: 08/18/08
Talk about suffering for art. Or maybe suffering because of it.
Nude for Satan was meant to be a nice pairing for a double feature with Vampyros lesbos (1971). I hope that you can imagine the theme of the pairing from the titles alone. However, I didn’t manage to watch them both in [...]
Vampyros lesbos
(1971) dir. Jesus Franco
viewed: 08/16/08
You know, it’s funny, but I’d never seen a Jesus Franco film before. He’s one of these living legends of cult/horror/exploitation/weirdness. Still kickin’. My interest in this film (yeah, I know the title suggests a lot), stemmed from my childhood, from a book I had on zombie films, featuring stills and [...]
