3 things about Walt Disney’s SLEEPING BEAUTY

Posted on July 12, 2017 by robchristopher

Sleeping Beauty [1959]

1. Many, many gargoyles.
2. “Father, you’re living in the past. This is the 14th Century!”
3. Boulders into bubbles.

3 other things.

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3 things about Richard Brooks’s LORD JIM

Posted on July 11, 2017 by robchristopher

Lord Jim [1965]

1. A peculiar mustache, a shaved head, a quilted vest worn without an undershirt: Eli Wallach steals the film.
2. “You have a natural talent for disaster. Try and improve yourself into an ordinary failure by keeping your mouth shut.”
3. Liquid sunset, candleboats drifting along the river.

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3 things about Jerome Robbins & Robert Wise’s WEST SIDE STORY

Posted on July 10, 2017 by robchristopher

West Side Story [1961]

1. Never noticed Anthony Teague from How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying plays one of the Jets.
2. Gonna be a lot of dead batteries come morning.
3. The blacktop that lies within the circle of light is grey and dry; the rest is black and shiny.

Looked and sounded brilliant in 70mm. It really is something to see it very big.

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3 things about Jacques Tourneur’s ANNE OF THE INDIES

Posted on July 6, 2017 by robchristopher

Anne of the Indies [1951]

1. Having grown tired of the wrestling contest, Blackbeard smashes a bottle across the wrestler’s head.
2. “You have a wench?”
“I’m a Frenchman.”
She smiles.
3. Treasure map as McGuffin.

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3 things about John Boorman’s EXORCIST II: THE HERETIC

Posted on July 5, 2017 by robchristopher

Exorcist II: The Heretic [1977]

1. The clinic: a beautiful set that makes no sense. A series of glass-walled rooms arranged in a honeycomb pattern.
2. From shaman to locust entomologist.
3. She turns, and all at once the street is filled with curious bystanders, ambulances, and policemen. Nice moment.

The double exposure stuff in the first hypnosis scene was creepy, but that’s about it. Remember: this is the guy who made Zardoz. Was hoping for good bad, but this was mostly just bad bad. What was with the disco penthouse apartment?

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3 things about Steven Soderbergh’s CONTAGION

Posted on July 4, 2017 by robchristopher

Contagion [2011]

1. “We don’t need to weaponize the bird flu. The birds are doing that.”
2. A metal chest of placebos.
3. Birthday lottery.

3 other things.

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3 things about Bong Joon Ho’s OKJA

Posted on July 1, 2017 by robchristopher

Okja [2017]

1. One thing I was not expecting was John Denver.
2. He calls his wife and asks what kind of body wash they have at home.
3. “They’ll eat it if it’s cheap enough.”

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3 things about Norman Jewison’s ROLLERBALL

Posted on June 28, 2017 by robchristopher

Rollerball [1975]

1. At his party: several biracial couples, white men with black women.
2. They take a trip to a Luxury Center. He expresses a vague aspiration to get a secretary.
3. “But comfort is freedom, it always has been.”

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3 things about Quentin Tarantino’s THE HATEFUL EIGHT

Posted on June 27, 2017 by robchristopher

The Hateful Eight [2015]

1. Looking down through the rafters.
2. “That door is a whore!”
3. He carefully drapes a blanket and two animal skins over the chair.

3 other things.

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3 things about Matt Dillon’s CITY OF GHOSTS

Posted on June 23, 2017 by robchristopher

City of Ghosts [2002]

1. Still holding the child, Gerard administers a beatdown.
2. For $5 he buys back his own sunglasses.
3. “Car good. Road bad.”

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