Some favorite pieces that I’ve come across over the years. Attributions uncertain.
Thursday PM
Favorite nonsense transition in MONTY PYTHON’S FLYING CIRCUS.
Favorite Bob Dylan song: “Tangled Up In Blue” from Blood On The Tracks.
Shrimpton & Stamp, London, 1963.
Bon appetit! Sir Anthony Hopkins in TITUS.
Thursday
My favorite performance in TOMMY: Ann-Margret.
Having fun with a performance: Gary Oldman in LEON.
My favorite western: THE PROFESSIONALS.
And with the idea that AI will somehow be our downfall, I once again suggest you seek out COLOSSUS: THE FORBIN PROJECT, a great piece of science fiction and a film with a perfect ending.
Wednesday PM
Stacy Keach in DOC.
William Hurt in A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE.
Rupert Everett in DELLAMORTE DELLAMORE (CEMETERY MAN).
John P. Ryan in RUNAWAY TRAIN.
Wednesday
What seems like a lifetime ago, I spent a few years helping to program the AFFD, a local film festival. Here are a few of the films I’m proud to have snagged for our audiences. (To be continued…)
Huang Weikai’s DISORDER (2009).
Ho Yuhang’s AT THE END OF DAYBREAK (2009).
Bong-Nam Park’s IRON CROWS (2011).
Yang Ik-june’s BREATHLESS (2008).
Tuesday PM
Easily one of the year’s best: Mark Jenkin’s ENYS MEN.
John Boorman, Billie Whitelaw, and Marcello Mastroianni on the set of LEO THE LAST.
An Asher Brown Durand landscape I found in a folder, and it’s so goddam good it hurts to look at.
Imagine stepping off stage and seeing this.
Tuesday
Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton.
PSH in A MOST WANTED MAN. But also, how I look when I’m thinking “What ever happened to Nacho Sarah?”
The good stuff: Flowering Inferno.
The YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN cast making yummy sounds.
Monday PM
A few more for today:
The beauty of THE COLOR OF POMEGRANATES.
THE RED TURTLE’s exquisite artistry.
“I didn’t even know there was a pool down there.” DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER.
Jon Polito in MILLER’S CROSSING.
Monday
I wondered if maybe all the images (that aren’t mine) I post on Instagram could just as easily be posted here, with commentary or without. That perhaps I don’t need that site after all.
Whatever happened to the terrific music doc WHO KILLED THE KLF?
General appreciation for the great Alice Coltrane.
Muse/artist, artist/muse. I love their expressions: Patti Smith & Robert Mapplethorpe.
Herbert Lom’s intro as Captain Nemo in MYSTERIOUS ISLAND.