A Polaroid selfie: Perfect Sense |
The Prize |
Bill Crider: The Prize [trailer]
B.V. Lawson: Media Murder
Comedy Film Nerds with William Elwood; with Mike Schmidt
Dan Stumpf: Curtain at Eight
Three Strangers |
Ed Lynskey: Side Street
Elizabeth Foxwell: Three Strangers; With Good Reason: "Brooks Hefner on S. S. Van Dine"
Evan Lewis: Hubley Colt .45 capgun video
George Kelley: RoboCop (2014); "The Death of College as We Know It"
Iba Dawson: Fed Up; 31 Days of Oscar
Ivan G. Shreve, Jr.: Flamingo Road; Possessed; The Damned Don't Cry; The Mark
Glass, Funches, Varney and Kashian |
Jackie Kashian: Todd Glass, Janet Varney and Ron Funches at SF Sketchfest; Chris Mancini on PS3 Games
James Reasoner: Eisenhower and Lutz
Jeff Segal: Horror/exploitation -film documentaries and videotape nostalgia: The Man Who Saw Frankenstein Cry, Slice and Dice, Rewind This! and more; Thriller (1970s UK series): "Screamer"
Jerry House: "Scientology: The Final Countdown"
John Charles: It's Alive! (1969); In the Year 2889
Juri Nummelin: Winter's Tale
Kate Laity: Women in Horror Month
Kliph Nesteroff: The Red Buttons Show with Eartha Kitt; Hiya Chum!; A Gentleman at Heart; Bracken's World
The Skin I Live In |
Laura: The Tall Stranger; The Stand at Apache River
Lucy Brown: The Paradise
Martin Edwards: The Skin I Live In
Marty McKee: Aspen; Destination Inner Space; The Time Travelers; Scotland Yard Inspector; Pier 23; The Case of the Baby Sitter
Mary Robinette Kowal: conventional sexism (also: Rebecca Watson)
Michael Shonk: television series one can see on YouTube...and not on "legit" dvd, so far...
Mystery Dave: Beetlejuice
Doctor at Sea |
Paul Gallegher: Writers in Conversation (at ICA, London): "J. G. Ballard" (the post's header image is borderline NSFW)
Prashant Trikkanad: "We Are the World" and related projects;
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Richard Metzger: Seizure
Rick: CBS Agatha Christie telefilms; Doctor in the House and its sequels
Rod Lott: Hellraiser: Hellworld; Man Beast; The Ultimate Degenerate
Chase a Crooked Shadow |
Ron Scheer: Gravel in Her Gut and Spit in Her Eye: The Life of Dorothy M. Johnson
Sergio Angelini: Chase a Crooked Shadow
Stacia Jones (et al.): Six Films: The Taking of Pelham One Two Three et al.
Stephen Bowie: Peyton Place: the day Mia Farrow cut her hair
Todd Mason: Perfect Sense; The Big Day (2001; aka We Met on the Vineyard): please see below.
Walter Albert: The Cockeyed World
Yvette Banek: Sid Caesar; Mapp & Lucia
Two solid "smaller" films: Perfect Sense; The Big Day
Perfect Sense is a BBC production, from their film arm, in tandem with a number of northern European units; the Scandinavian presence is about as great as the Ingmar Bergman influence
The most blatant nod to Bergman in the cinematography... Green and McGregor |
At a street-performer's impromptu eulogy for lost senses. |
Ivan Sergei and Margulies as the couple. |
...a little joke on tightly-wound relatives... |
Hi Todd, I'll be posting a audio write-up shortly — it's "We Are the World by USA for Africa," 1985
ReplyDeleteMine's up now, Todd,"celebrating" the church of Scientology's 60th anniversary today.
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ReplyDeleteTodd, I have a little something about the Mapp and Lucia television series just posted. :)
ReplyDeleteAdded! Thanks.
ReplyDeleteTodd, never heard of either of these two films you've posted about. (Well, maybe that's rather the point, Yvette.) Anyway, the first one sounds intriguing. I'll have to see if I can find a viewing portal. :)
ReplyDeleteThe second one is interesting to me because I love Dixie Carter and Julianna Margulies even if they do not look like mother and daughter.
Yvette, I caught PERFECT SENSE on The Movie Channel, and have now purchased an inexpensive DVD. If you have an all-regions DVD player, as many are these days, the Dutch DVD of THE BIG DAY should work OK if you want to buy or borrow it (so many Dutch people speak English that I can't imagine the English soundtrack isn't one of the options if not the default on that disk)...but I see there was a long out of print US dvd, that is available online for relatively reasonable money, as well.
ReplyDeleteI came across PERFECT SENSE on a late evening screening (on the BBC) and was basically won over - as you say, it takes a tough line with its characters which makes it strangely more palatable despite the typical vagaries of euro-pudding casting (but I like Green - she was great in CASNO ROYALE and THE DREAMERS I thought) - I have the Varley but haven't read it, so thanks very much for that Todd.
ReplyDeleteCool. I think you might well enjoy the Varley story, Sergio...I think you'll like the way he thinks (though even when I was a very isolated 13yo reading "Vision" in its first magazine appearance, there were aspects of the story and the society it's set in that gave me pause). I think everyone in the world was more impressed with the new CASINO ROYALE than I was...it struck me as so much posturing and people making a point of doing even worse things than they might if they weren't so Ashamed and reveling in that shame, even as everyone was also making sure that they, personally, would suffer maximally in every previous encounter. Hell, even the novel ends on a more realistic, if no less self-centered, note...doesn't wallow in masochism to the same degree. When Fleming is closer to the behavior of actual humans than you are, it's time you reassess.
ReplyDeleteShe was excellent in THE DREAMERS, which by me is as stupid a film as Bertolucci has coughed up (which is saying something), nothing much about it coming close to human behavior (though she comes closest, against the script). She's even good in similarly terrible films such as CLONE since. Seeing her in a good film is what pleases me so here. I'm hoping that PENNY DREADFUL is worthwhile, as it clearly could go any which way.
Todd, I enjoyed reading your reviews of "Perfect Sense," "The Big Day," and "The Man Who Saw Frankenstein Cry" and was impressed by your understanding of the many films, television series, and documentaries covered. I haven't watched "smaller" films or documentaries in recent times in spite of my interest in that segment of cinema.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Prashant--though Jeff Segal was the reviewer of THE MAN WHO WATCHED FRANKENSTEIN CRY and the other horror/exploitation film documentaries. Always glad to see your perspectives on things, as well...
ReplyDeleteSorry I overlooked Jeff Segal's name. I naturally assumed you had written it, Todd.
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