August 2012
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Recent Watches: Dreaming of Pizza Pillows Edition
SLEEPWALK WITH ME
DIRECTED BY MIKE BIRBIGLIA & SETH BARRISH
I guess, after reading reviews from other critics on this film, that I actually was aware of Mike Birbiglia’s REM sleep behavioral disorder, a disorder that causes him to act out his dreams, and the crazy-but-true stories of those incidents in the THIS AMERICAN LIFE episode ‘Fear of Sleep’. Birbiglia’s...
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Recent Watches: The Expectations of Auteurs...
HARA-KIRI: DEATH OF A SAMURAI 3D
DIRECTED BY TAKASHI MIIKE
Just like 13 ASSASSINS, HARA-KIRI: DEATH OF A SAMURAI is a remake with its own twist and themes on samurai history by the world-renowned director Takashi Miike. The fact that this was a 3D film got me pretty excited, believing this was a continuation of 13 ASSASSINS (that was on my top ten films list for 2011). 13 ASSASSINS was a...
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Recent Watches: New York Double-Dip Edition
THE PANIC IN NEEDLE PARK
DIRECTED BY JERRY SCHATZBERG
The Panic in Needle Park, film that launched Al Pacino’s career is somehow not really a blip in his filmography. After watching this I could partially understand why but also still not understand a bunch of other things. Pacino’s role as the heroin addict Bobby would be such a leap from the Michael Corleones the Serpicos and...
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The Vishnevetsky Method of Film-Ranking: My...
When you look at the post below, I actually really took to this method done by film critic Ignatiy Vishnevtsky to do my own rankings. Even coming up with the titles was very difficult to narrow it all down but the list ended up being very satisfying. Initially, I wanted to draw eight films and leave my staples, Apocalypse Now and The Battle of Algiers in as my #1 and #2 films. But then I...
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Recent Watches: The Next Generation Edition
TINY FURNITURE
DIRECTED BY LENA DUNHAM
This might be the first review on the history of this blog that is not based on my first viewing of the film. I first saw TINY FURNITURE before its selection to the Criterion Collection that was polarizing and then Lena Dunham’s far more polarizing television show GIRLS making the internet rounds where everybody with an asshole had some opinion on...
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A Questionnaire going around at MUBI.com...
-Is Lynch a better director than Bunuel?
No. Lynch came out of the nostril of Bunuel. But Bunuel and Lynch should each have films on the list.
-Is The Searchers really the best Western or the best film by John Ford?
No and no. The Wild Bunch and Stagecoach are the superiors
-Is Godard the greatest director ever?
You cannot spell Godard without G-O-D, but no…. not even the best among...
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Recent Watches: The Shortest 141 Minute Movie Ever...
RIO BRAVO
DIRECTED BY HOWARD HAWKS
Rio Bravo is a film that before I ever even saw a shot of it, I was highly skeptical of ever taking it seriously. Sure, I love many Howard Hawks films (The Thing from Another World, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, the original Scarface, Monkey Business, The Big Sleep and his first Western Red River) and I do like a good Western but the idea that John Wayne’s...
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Recent Watches: Ode to Truffaut Edition
MOONRISE KINGDOM
DIRECTED BY WES ANDERSON
I did not even have to read anything about Moonrise Kingdom to immediately realize that this film, more than any other in Wes Anderson’s filmography, was the biggest love-letter to Truffaut he has ever given. The large, children-driven ensemble was something of a dead give-away but Anderson’s recent disclaimer that he was very much...
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John Waters - This Filthy world
I just want to know in what place can I get both Pretty Little Liars and a John Waters special.
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The Sight & Sound Top Ten List Individually by...
courtest of MUBI.com
Woody Allen
“Bicycle Thieves” (1948, dir. Vittorio De Sica) “The Seventh Seal” (1957, dir. Ingmar Bergman) “Citizen Kane” (1941, dir. Orson Welles “Amarcord” (1973, dir. Federico Fellini “8 1/2” (1963, dir. Federico Fellini) “The 400 Blows” (1959, dir. Francois Truffaut) “Rashomon” (1950, dir. Akira Kurosawa) “La Grande Illusion” (1937, dir. Jean Renoir) ...
