And a few more.
Friday
Some favorite pieces that I’ve come across over the years. Attributions uncertain.
Thursday PM
Lynda Barry on crud.
Top five 70s comedy: WHAT’S UP DOC?
Flashback to childhood: the badass Ballantine covers of Edgar Rice Burroughs novels.
Thursday
8 1/2.
“Chrissy, over by the wall, bring me the big knife.” My favorite Nicolas Cage performance: MOONSTRUCK.
My favorite book about horror: Stephen King’s Danse Macabre.
Benedikt Erlingsson’s WOMAN AT WAR (2018).
Wednesday PM
Scene preceding my second favorite rant in ALTERED STATES. A film where I think I love the dialogue more than the fantastical stuff. But that’s Paddy Chayefsky. I’ll take a Chayefsky monologue any day of the week.
George Harris, seconds before something really bad happens in LAYER CAKE.
My gosh, I love this film: POINT BLANK.
SIMON OF THE DESERT.
Wednesday
Shinya Tsukamoto’s A SNAKE OF JUNE (2002).
Yoon Jong-bin’s NAMELESS GANGSTER (2012).
Owen Cho and Sang-hwa Kim’s ENEMY AT THE DEAD END (2010).
Juno Mak’s RIGOR MORTIS (2013).
Tuesday PM
Willem Dafoe, TOMMASO.
Gould & Segal, CALIFORNIA SPLIT.
Emma Stone, THE FAVOURITE.
Bugs Bunny, depression, and alcoholism. That’s all, folks!
Tuesday
It took a while, but the GRINDHOUSE experience is now back as a single, whole, streamable film, which is as it should be. (Vudu)
Monday PM
For the love of Albert Pyun’s NEMESIS…
The Following Monday
“Octavio”, SCARFACE.
Sinistar. He hungers. Run. Run. Run.
Jack Nicholson, Life Magazine, circa that shirt was in style. But it’s coming back, I feel certain.
Patinkin & Spader, THE MUSIC OF CHANCE.
Sunday PM
Laurent & McGregor, BEGINNERS.
Butler & Bergin, SHARK WEEK.
Kitano & Kishimoto, HANA-BI (FIREWORKS).
Dunaway & Rourke, BARFLY.
Sunday
This year, I’ve stumbled across some great first-time watches (other than the aforementioned THE COLOR OF POMEGRANATES). The best part was that half of them I’d never heard of before.
THE UNKNOWN MAN OF SHANDIGOR (1967).
CARAVAGGIO (1986).
CHAMELEON STREET (1989).
GOODBYE 20TH CENTURY (1998).
HELL DRIVERS (1957).
LOLA MONTES (1955).
SAHARA (1943).
MOONLIGHTING (1982).
Saturday PM
Joanna Cassidy.
Goldthwait & Armstrong as sweet boys in ONE CRAZY SUMMER.
Promotional image from a 1971 off-Broadway production of One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest with WIlliam Devane and Janet Ward, and now all I want is to watch footage of Devane playing McMurphy.
Karen Black, FIVE EASY PIECES.
Saturday
I was looking for this picture I recall from childhood, from what I feel certain was Life Magazine, of a Vietnam protester (perhaps it was a different inflammatory issue, there were so many from that period) flipping off the photographer in brutally urgent fashion. I can’t find this image anywhere online, which seems odd, given everything else is…but I thought it would have been perfect for accompanying the thought “Fuck you, David Zaslav.”
Friday PM
Young & Webber, BRING ME THE HEAD OF ALFREDO GARCIA.
Smith & Glover, DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER.
Warren & Waits, SEVEN PSYCHOPATHS.
Mulock, Elam & Strode, ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST.
Friday
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).