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Monday, January 28, 2008

Movies for 1/21-1/27, 2008

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19. Much as I love the Marx Brothers, no one in the world can convince me that they made more than two good movies. For the most part, the ...
Monday, January 21, 2008

Stomp.

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13. Yasuzo Masumura's Black Test Car (1962) is an indictment of capitalist backstabbing among industrial spies, and if it's less ou...
Monday, January 14, 2008

Dark Pasts, Dark Futures

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8. There is a certain shock of recognition found in watching Shinobi no mono (1962, directed by Satsuo Yamamoto), because many of its ninja...
Friday, January 11, 2008

A Year-long Movie Argosy

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I've been lazy about writing about the movies I've seen in the past year, so I thought I'd try to jumpstart my interest in it by...
Monday, December 03, 2007

Movies for the week of 11/26-12/2/07

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I'm still mulling over my reaction to Johnnie To's Throwdown (2004), which seems to be a weird hybrid of his comedies and his crime...
Monday, November 26, 2007

Innocence and Experience

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The way Lucile Hadzihalilovic's Innocence (2004) is made shows a chilly kind of French discipline, which exaggerates the fact that it d...
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Friday, November 16, 2007

Early Hitchcock and Favorite Horror Movie Posters

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I've been sitting on public domain collections of Hitchcock for a while now. One of my brothers, who seems to forget this every year, bu...
Monday, August 06, 2007

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So I go to my local mom and pop video store to rent Bergman's Cries and Whispers and Wild Strawberries this weekend, neither of which ...
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Wednesday, May 09, 2007

Movies for the week ending May 6, 2007

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I played hooky from work on Friday afternoon to go see Spider-Man 3 (2007, d. Sam Raimi), which was good fun. I like it more than the first...
Monday, February 19, 2007

Movies for the Week Ending 2/18/07

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Leo McCarey was convinced that the Cary Grant persona was an impersonation of himself, learned by Grant on the set of The Awful Truth (1937...
Thursday, December 07, 2006

Movies for the week of 11/7-12/3/06

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The more I see it, the more I'm convinced that Only Angels Have Wings (1939) is the pivotal movie that turned Howard Hawks into an aute...
Monday, November 20, 2006

The Films of Archie Leach: Movies for the week of 11/13-11/19/06

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Without quite intending to, I started collecting Cary Grant movies this month. I ordered the Columbia and Warner Boxes and backordered the n...
Monday, September 18, 2006

The Pain in Spain: Movies for the Week Ending September 17, 2006

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After watching two films by Spanish director Agustí Villaronga this weekend (with a third on hand), I’m not entirely sure I would want to ha...
Wednesday, August 02, 2006

Movies for the week ending 7/30

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My review of The Set-Up (1949, directed by Robert Wise) is up at my web site. Here's the link: http://members.tranquility.net/~benedict...
Wednesday, July 26, 2006

Movies for the week of 7/23

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My week in a nutshell: I took another stab at The Creeping Flesh (1973, directed by Freddie Francis). The last time through, I fell asleep ...
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Sunday, July 16, 2006

Movies for the week of July 10-16

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There was a certain amount of deja vu involved in watching Lady in a Cage (1964, directed by Walter Grauman) this week. On the surface, thi...
Wednesday, May 03, 2006

Eros Plus Massacre (Movies for the week of 4/24-4/30)

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The bloodiest day in American history is thought to be the New York Draft Riots in July of 1863 (memorably depicted on film in Martin Scorse...
Monday, April 24, 2006

Movie Week for 4/24/06

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Here's my movie week in a nutshell: The movies from the DDD sales are starting to trickle in. I'm happiest to have replaced my ...
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Monday, March 13, 2006

Movie Week for 3/13/06

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I got a huge shipment of Asian films this week. My review of Sympathy for Lady Vengeance is up on my web site. A bunch of Johnny To movies ...
Monday, February 13, 2006

My Movie Week (2/13/06)

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I saw two Christian-themed movies this week. One made with the intent to blaspheme, the other with an evangelical purpose. Neither of them ...