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Author Archives: robchristopher
3 things about Spike Lee’s BLACKKKLANSMAN
BlacKkKlansman [2018] 1. Polaroid. 2. Free at last. 3. Corn oil. Powerful.
3 things about Stanley Kubrick’s BARRY LYNDON
Barry Lyndon [1975] 1. A plugget of tow. 2. “I volunteer.” 3. A toy carriage pulled along by two sheep.
3 things about Ingmar Bergman’s AUTUMN SONATA
Autumn Sonata [1978] 1. “A mother and a daughter. What a terrible combination of emotions and confusion and destruction.” 2. Glowing green eyes. Red-rimmed eyes. 3. He closes the envelope but does not seal it.
3 things about John Glen’s FOR YOUR EYES ONLY
For Your Eyes Only [1981] 1. “I adore grateful men.” 2. He smuggles pistachios. 3. They plunge through the stained glass window. 3 other things.
3 things about Peter Hyams’s 2010
2010 [1984] 1. Dusty hull. 2. Red calculator. 3. “I understand now, Dr. Chandra. Thank you for telling me the truth.” “You deserve it.”
3 things about George Cukor’s KEEPER OF THE FLAME
Keeper of the Flame [1943] 1. A junior-sized football. 2. “But I didn’t warn him. Because it came to me. A clean death in the rain was the best thing that could happen to Robert Forrest.” 3. Smoke swirling around … Continue reading
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3 things about Freddie Francis’s TROG
Trog [1970] 1. A sort of jumpsuit/smock with lapels on both the front and back. 2. Dinosaur flashback. 3. Impaled on a stalagmite. Oh, Joan. She really should have called it a day after Night Gallery. What an amazingly poor, … Continue reading
3 things about Robert Mulligan’s INSIDE DAISY CLOVER
Inside Daisy Clover [1965] 1. Evening. Near the beach. Sitting outside at a card table with a small lamp on it. The breeze stirs the ribbon in her hair. A worried look on her face. 2. Looping breakdown. ADR booth, … Continue reading
3 things about Lewis Gilbert’s MOONRAKER
Moonraker [1979] 1. Piano dive. 2. “Dr. Goodhead, your desire to be America’s first woman in space will soon be fulfilled.” 3. Spectacular but puzzling: a meeting room that transforms into a rocket combustion chamber. 3 other things.
3 things about George Pal’s THE TIME MACHINE
The Time Machine [1960] 1. Tracks on the ground, tracks on the floor. 2. Apocalypse in 1966. 3. “They never come back.”
