3 things about Billy Wilder’s SUNSET BLVD.

Posted on September 22, 2025 by robchristopher

Sunset Blvd. [1950]

1. Solid gold cigarette case.
2. “Get me Gordon Cole.”
3. He references The Naked and The Dead.

3 other things.

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3 things about Sean Baker’s ANORA

Posted on September 21, 2025 by robchristopher

Anora [2024]

1. It’s his grandmother’s car.
2. Spraying champagne aboard a private jet.
3. “You know, you should learn English first before you attempt French.”

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3 things about Vanessa Gould’s OBIT.

Posted on September 19, 2025 by robchristopher

Obit. [2016]

1. The morgue of the New York Times: 10,000 drawers.
2. An inherently retrospective disciple.
3. No euphemisms for “death” permitted.

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3 things about Sidney Lumet’s THE WIZ

Posted on September 18, 2025 by robchristopher

The Wiz [1978]

1. Hungry trashcans.
2. Sweaty sweatshop sign.
3. Starbabies.

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3 things about Ceyda Torun’s KEDI

Posted on September 13, 2025 by robchristopher

Kedi [2016]

1. If you can’t love an animal, you can’t love a person.
2. Everyone has open tabs at the vet.
3. Feeding her babies.

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3 things about t.o.L’s TAMALA 2010: A PUNK CAT IN SPACE

Posted on September 12, 2025 by robchristopher

Tamala 2010: A Punk Cat in Space [2002]

1. Let’s! Catty Diet!
only 7 yen
2. His name, as he keeps reminding her, is Michelangelo.
3. Trying to find the toilet in the basement of the museum.

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3 things about Walter Salles’s I’M STILL HERE

Posted on September 11, 2025 by robchristopher

I’m Still Here [2024]

1. Burying a tooth on the beach.
2. They pull away from the house for the last time without saying anything.
3. A secret bottle hidden in his desk at work.

3 other things.

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3 things about Richard Quine’s STRANGERS WHEN WE MEET

Posted on September 7, 2025 by robchristopher

Strangers When We Meet [1960]

1. “Martinis don’t mix with S-E-X.”
2. Walter Matthau as a lecherous heel.
3. Inappropriate mixed chorus vocal version of the theme song as the film ends.

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Enjoy MY LAST MARTINI in September and October

Posted on September 7, 2025 by robchristopher

My Last Martini is screening like bananas over the next few months. Hope you can make it to one of these shows!


September 14, 2025: Lake County Film Festival, Lake Forest, IL


September 14, 2025: Soo Film Festival, Sault Ste. Marie, MI

[Block 11 – Welcome HOMES @ 10:30AM]


September 20, 2025: City Of Lights Film Festival (COLFF), Aurora, IL

[Screening Block 3 @ 6:00PM]


September 28, 2025: Maumee Film Festival, OH

[Shorts Block #9 – More National and International Shorts @ 1:45PM]


September 27, 2025: Tallahassee Film Festival, FL

[Shorts 3 – Artificial Flavors, Real Feeling @ 3:15PM]


October 3, 2025: Sheboygan Film Festival, WI

[Shorts Block 2: Weird Wisconsin @ 2:30PM]


October 10, 2025: Buffalo International Film Festival, NY

[BIFF Shorts: Never Too Late @ 4:45PM]


October 12, 2025: Tryon International Film Festival, NC

[Shorts Program @ 4:15PM]


October 19, 2025: San Jose International Short Film Festival, CA

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3 things about Percy Adlon’s BAGDAD CAFE

Posted on September 5, 2025 by robchristopher

Bagdad Cafe [1987]

1. After sipping the coffee: “Brown water.”
2. Silverware transformed into a percussion instrument.
3. Fuchsia silk shirt.

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